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Catching the first starship to Amicalola Friday morning, expect to be hiking up the approach trail by Sunday. Congrats to all the droogs allready huffing and puffing, condolences to all you suckers...

Too many choices:( I think I'll go back to motorcycles and beer for awhile.

Don't forget they look all "Last of the Mohicans" cool. Unca and Magua would approve.:D

If it can fit 1 box of macncheese or 2 packs of Ramen, your probably ok.

Easy, I also carry a Gerber 3 1/4, with a serrated inside. I wrench and janitor, so I need an all around chunk of metal for various purposes, I've cut through metal packing strap with the serrated...

Fuel tab stove, unbreakable, if you break it, find a couplea' rocks. mmm, love the taste of chemicals....

I've got awesome home base help (my folks) who will shop for what I need and mail it, I just have to call in time. Won't do this too many times, just with a few spots suggested in Baltimore Jacks...

Good point MM, being a Greenhorn I think I carried more water than I drank!

I just wind up working harder to pay for the technology I don't really need. :-?

That's funny, I just mentioned how I never read anyone mention loss of appetite on another thread. This happened to me as well, when I hike this year I'll try to make sure I eat enough, as it seems...

I don't think I've heard anyone mention how some people lose their appetite on the first few day's of serious hiking. I've heard it explained as your body going into "fight or flight"response and...

If you're hiking north from Springer, don't forget the Walasi Yi center is only 30 miles or so North, I dumped a lot of useless crap there, they had boxes stacked up for greenhorns to mail stuff home.

Jah love, duppy conquerer!:D

I would, however,love a Ural motorcycle. They make one with two drive wheels, using a driveshaft to connect the wheel on the sidecar. Bad gas mileage though.

I just want to know what physics are necassary to live "in the shadow of the trail":D Sorry, I just get a kick out of words.

Rain gear will not keep you dry, but as mentioned, it can stave off hypothermia. If it is raining cat's and dogs (the world is my litterbox) a sheet of plastic will allow the water to fall to the...

Let's hear it for Murphy's law, the only law of the road! Accident is defined as an event which proceeds from an unknown cause. As cautious as one may be, you can not controll everything. As his...

Just a note to hypochondriacs, reusing container bottles may leach funny chemicals into your food. There's been discussion on reusing film canisters, and I'm sure gun oil has a lot of fun additives...

I'll just wait for anti-grav backpacks.

Jelly's all sugar, good calorie to weight ratio, and you can take smaller amounts of it, like the little packets you see at continentall breakfasts, or put the big jar in your bounce box and take...

Makes me glad I batter my feet all day in stiff vinyl work boots, no longer prone to blisters.

I just take a full hour and eat lunch, stretch out muscles and cool the feat.

Don's forget Jungle hammocks, well under 3lbs 300 dollars. I'm a half inch under 6 ft., I'll be under the 200 lb weight limit for the Hennessy ultra light A-sym by Damascus Va.:D Hennesy makes a...

It's kinda neat to work you're arms and back for awhile after walking a few hundred miles! It can also be painfull:p

I'm a Hammer wearing Neo-Pagan and never had a problem. Even if some punk gave you trouble they'd better catch you alone cause their's a mob of hikers strung up and down appalachia to back you up.