Dan wrote; > Isn't there some law of packing which says that gear will expand to fill > the space available? That has been my experience. I have boats of > various sizes, and it seems that they always fill up regardless of which > one I take--excluding day trips, of course! When I first started traveling in canoes I was young and tough and stupid. I carried everything I could stuff in the packs and then tied stuff on the outside thinking that "I might need that". As I got older and did more solo paddling I started cutting back using the philosophy that if I hadn't used it in the last few trips I didn't need it. I have carried that over into my kayaking and it is remarkable how much less stuff I take than others. The neat thing is that if I don't have it, some one else probably does :-). Occasionally such and such a piece of equipment seems nice but I have gotten so use to the Spartan mode that there is a lot of subconscious resistance to adding to the gear box. Kayaks really encourage one to "fill-it-up" because there is so little carrying. Cheers John Winters Redwing Designs Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft http://home.ican.net/~735769/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jan 29 1998 - 03:27:48 PST
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