[pct-l] Lighten your pack the JMT Reinhold way

[jeff.singewald at comcast.net]

Reinhold, 



I guess if you are going to throw out these types of recommendations, it would be nice to give some evidence of how successful you were with this type of strategy.  So, can you share your grazing strategy and success on any of your PCT section hikes (or JMT thru-hikes)?  What percentage of your food supply was done through grazing and what percentage was done through actual food you carried in?  I would hate to think that newbies might take this as a suitable supply option without sufficient evidence that you were actually successful.  Sometimes I think you are a nut, but maybe this is due to the fact that you are foraging for all these nuts? 



Elevator 




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marion Davison" <mardav at charter.net> 
To: "pct >> Pacific Crest Trail List" <pct-l at backcountry.net> 
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 10:42:02 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Lighten your pack the JMT Reinhold way 

Reinhold Metzger wrote: 
> To all those, concerned about heavy food and pack weight......did you 
> ever consider  "GRAZING"? 
> There are lot's of meadows along the trail. 
> You might, however, have to carry a few nuts to get you through the desert. 
> 
> JMT Reinhold 
> The grazer 
> 
Okay, that's it.  Now I have to publish this. 
While hiking the PCT with my llamas, at a llama grazing pace, I had time 
to write the lyrics for this ditty, to the tune of Ërie Canal". 

Grazing the PCT 
I've got a llama, his name is Lee, 500 miles on the PCT 
He carries my backbreaking loads for me, 500 miles on the PCT 
He hauls those big loads up the trail 
through the rain and snow and hail 
and he's tasted every blade of grass 
from Cottonwood to Sonora Pass 
Meadows, flowers all around, 
green fields, llama's happy grazing ground 
and you know my favorite llama, is my big buddy Lee 
'cause we hiked 500 miles on the PCT. 

Marion (llamalady) 
See yáll at kickoff. 

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