[pct-l] Technology on the Trail

[darudiva at xs4all.nl (darudiva@xs4all.nl)]

My watch is an automatic, it does not have batteries. On the back you can
look inside and you see all these mysterious little wheels and bolts. I
use it from time to time on a hike when the going gets tough: if I make it
to the pass in under half an hour... I should be able to go on for at
least another hour... I can give myself a candy after another half hour of
hard climbing... I'd love to use an MP3 player in about the same way: to
carry me over my dips and bumps with a song. Of course I don't *need* it.
But I think it's probably worth the .78 of an ounce (iPod Shuffle) to
carry.

Saskia

> When the MP3 players get under 1 ounce and carry 1,000 songs, then I will
> carry one and listen to it occasionally when I'm feeling low out there on
> the
> trail or in my bag at night.  I still wont carry a watch.   I won't carry
> a GPS
> either, nor a phone, nor a radio.   No need.
>
> Hiking is where I go to get away from all of the mechanized - electolyzed
> -
> technolyzed - analyzed - politicized world.
>
> Greg
>