[pct-l] Music on the Trail and Rain Gear

[Craig Giffen]

I just bought a Sansa Clip+ off Amazon for $30.  You can expand them with microSD cards too.  Seems to work pretty well.  Apparently battery life is around 15 hours or 10 hours if using stuff on the microSD card.  I have a solar USB charger and since the players are cheap and light, might just buy an extra player so one can be charging.  Right now I'm running iTunes on a second computer to transcode all my music down to 128kbps mp3 files

When I finished up the last 500 miles of the PCT in 1996 I couldn't stomach the thought of not having music anymore.  I brought my walkman and 20(!) cassette tapes.   The worst part was having to ration battery power, ugh.  Having the music really helped keep me motivated and my brain active.

CG


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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:43:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Potter <billpotter at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Music on the Trail and Rain Gear
To: Paul Mitchell <paul at bluebrain.ca>,	"pct-l at backcountry.net"
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Hi Paul,

What tiny MP3 players did you use. ?Music is one of the few things on my list that I'm?struggling?with.