[pct-l] IDEAS on what stove to use when cooking for 4

[Ate Tuna]

Insisting on hiking together and sharing meals can burden one or more
members by forcing them to slow down and get cold or speed up and get hurt.
 I love camping with the same trail friends every night, but make no other
attempt to stay together.

It might be best to start with separate cookware, and if it turns out that
you all really do hike and eat together, then send the extra cookware home
or bounce it up the trail.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Charles Doersch
<charles.doersch at gmail.com>wrote:

> Okay -- apparently there's a cultural thing I'm missing about this endeavor
> ... new to me ... if I'm reading some of the inferences right ... so on the
> PCT wives & husbands are recommended to bring their own gear in case one
> wants to hike his/her own hike, split up for awhile, or one or the other
> takes a zero day while the other hikes on  ... on the PCT it's not
> unexpected or unusual for old couples who've been together for 20 years to
> split up for part of the trail even though they've set out to do this
> together ... and for fathers and sons to split up and leave one behind when
> ill while the other hikes on ... and for a mother to leave her daughter,
> say, at Warner Springs while Mom hikes on ...
>
> I'm cool with what others choose to do ... and I'm really cool about
> learning from others' experiences ... so this new culture is one I'm paying
> attention to. It's a bit of a culture shock, I'll grant. But I'm paying
> attention.
>
> Wow.
>
> ~Charles Doersch
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:44 AM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Steeleye wrote:
> >
> > >I don't expect this is anything you, or your group, wants to hear but I
> > >think the best plan is for everyone to carry their own full array of
> > >ultra-lite gear.  It is very difficult for even two committed people to
> > >remain in close association for 4-5 months on the trail, and the
> > likelihood
> > >of four making the trip would be very slim.
> >
> > I have to ditto what Steeleye says. Even the Three Stooges weren't always
> > the same stooges. And there were only three of them. Ok, sometimes four.
> >
> > With one person, if you get tired and need to take a zero you do it. If
> you
> > are slightly injured you just walk a little slower and maybe a shorter
> > distance that day. With a couple, the chance for one of you to get tired
> or
> > injured is twice as likely and that effects the other person. It goes up
> > exponentially with the number in the group. If the group splits up for a
> > couple of days, who gets the stove?
> >
> > I hike all the time with Piper but almost always we each have our own set
> > of gear. We do almost always share the tent since it is two pounds but
> > everything else is doubled. Sounds inefficient but we feel that each
> person
> > should be able to continue on if the other has to stop or quit for some
> > reason.
> >
> > TrailHacker
> >
> > "When my feet hurt, I can't think straight"
> > Abraham Lincoln
> >
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