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[marmot marmot]

Remember that early in your hike it would be unusual to carry that much weight in food. Until you burn off town weight ---go light. Or you just end up providing other hikers with free food via the hiker boxes. 
Marmot

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> On Aug 19, 2015, at 8:17 AM, Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com> wrote:
> 
> 2015-08-18 23:46 GMT-07:00 Jerry Nicholson <jer166 at sbcglobal.net>:
>> My plan is to do a lot of walking with a pack and keep adding weight until I
>> get to my load capacity.
> 
> You do want to be careful about your gear, so that your base weight
> (without food and water) is as low as you can get safely.I think that
> low teens is quite doable. There are people who get below 10, but I
> never have.
> 
> Figuring 2lbs a day for food for a 5 day stretch, and a couple of
> liters of water, you won't often leave town after resupply with more
> than 30lbs.
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