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

[gwschenk at socal.rr.com]

Charles, my girlfriend and I always share gear. All it takes is willingness to compromise on small things like campsites, mileage, etc. No different than "normal" life, really. If she was sick or injured, I would not leave her behind, and vice versa.

Gary

---- 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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