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RE: [pct-l] The BakePacker



Ron,
It is not a big deal to take the bakepacker off the stove, add fuel and
relight. I know that this idea is way out of norm for a thruhiker. However,
it makes sense when you think SYSTEM not individual weight. Picture this:

You hitchhike from Cottenwood Lakes down to Lone Pine and check out the
super market. You find the obligitory miniute rice, powdered instant
cardboard and everything else you have eaten for six-hundred miles. You:
a. You load up with your chosen lightweight fare, keeping your pack light,
and hitchhike back up the mountain.
b. Go next door. Pound down a big steak and THEN load up with your chosen
lightweight fare, keeping your pack light, and hitchhike back up the
mountain.
c. Go next door. Pound down a big steak, get a hotel room, have 6 beers, eat
a huge breakfast and THEN load up with your chosen lightweight fare, keeping
your pack light, and hitchhike back up the mountain.
d. Go next door. Pound down a big steak, get a hotel room, have 6 beers, eat
a huge breakfast and THEN DUMP 24 SNICKERS BARS in your shopping basket,
load up with your chosen lightweight fare, keeping your pack light, and
hitchhike back up the mountain --- but not before adding another 5 pounds of
your favorite food that you swear you'll eat BEFORE you climb Forrester
pass.
e. Realize that you have another 2000 miles on this FU&*ing trail and you
HATE the trail, HATE the heavy pack and HATE the food. You call dad for a
ticket home.

If you do a., b. or c. forget the Bakepacker. Do you? Be honest! If you do
d. then better to eat right and plan to carry a little extra weight now
instead of a LOT of weight later.
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