[Philmont] Augmenting and Stripping meals

Dr. Bob,

What sort of issues commonly come up during shakedown hikes?
Also, it may have been posted before but what do you find "works" to
get physically "conditioned" to
do high altitude backpacking at Philmont.

Joe Jansen
JAJansenJr@gmail.com
Philmont 1965; 1978

On 6/17/07, Dr. Bob Klein <drbob@troop111.org> wrote:
> Back from a three-day shakedown on the "roller-coaster" section of the
> AT - "Ow" - so able to respond.
>
> Several folks have already made the most important point about
> meal-stripping; that being, you can't meal-strip until you know whether
> your crew is fighting over the pot scrapings, or fighting over who has
> to carry the smelly, 5 pound yum-yum bag. Even during the 2002 year of
> "cracker-mania" (an *unbelievable* amount of food), there were still
> some Crews checking Rt. 64 for road-kill.
>

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Received on Sun Jun 17 22:26:31 2007