by Random Walker » Thu May 07, 2009 8:00 am
bill-e-g,
Thanks, this might be the hike where I step from light hiking boots to cross trainers.
I reckon my backpack weight for 7 days is nearly about the same as yours.
I went through my stuff a few years ago paying much attention to each item, weighing it etc.
Now I just heft, average, ponder, reckon, then go backpacking.
gwegan,
4 in one day, nice!
I have not seen a rattler since I moved back home from New Mexico.
But then I spent most of last year on the wet side of the cascades.
I love the smell of deet in the morning.
The smell, you know that deet smell, the whole mountain.
Smelled like... victory.