[pct-l] Which Book to Read ??

[Brian McLaughlin]

Good recommendation! Ray Jardine taught me a lot about
lightweight backpacking. He was the motive force behind
many now-standard thru-hiking strategies.

I would only add that, if you get this book and read it, and
it contains a glowingly enthusiastic section on corn pasta as
the perfect backpacking food and a miracle of nutrition that no
hiker should do without... just know that for many years the
most-abandoned food in hiker boxes was corn pasta, huge
heaps of it, enough to fuel a small city.

Otherwise, much of his advice is quite good.

Aimless


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "linsey" <mowoggirl at yahoo.com>
To: <athruhiker2006 at yahoo.com>; <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 12:39 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Which Book to Read ??


> If I were to read only one thru hiking book before a thru attempt, my pick 
> would be "Trail Life:  Ray Jardine's Lightweight Backpacking...25,000 
> Miles of Trail Tested Know How" which I was able to check out from our 
> public library.  Really I cannot express just how useful this manifesto 
> is.  Plus it includes well over 300 amazing color photographs.
>
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> ----Original Message-----
> From: Thru Hiker <athruhiker2006 at yahoo.com>
> To: pct-l <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Mon, Jan 24, 2011 11:10 am
> Subject: [pct-l] Which Book to Read ??
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> Sure I will get a-lot of suggestions on this one. Haven't read any PCT 
> thru-hike
> books. If I were going to read ONE befor KO, which one is the most 
> interesting,
> ealistic, enjoyable in addition to informative?? Thks, Sourdough
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