Dan Hagen wrote: > > Tom Cromwell wrote: > > > > How long does it take you to take down camp on a long kayak trip? What do you > > do to speed it up if you have to get off the beach fast? > > ...[snip]... even when we where trying it still took 2 hours! > > That sounds about right to me. It never ceases to amaze me how long it > takes to get going in the morning. [snip] > > Some day I am going to time every single task to see exactly where the > time goes. That is the first step in determining how to shave off the > minutes. "Scientific time management meets sea kayaking." I can hear the > groans already... Yeah, I think there *is* a hyphen in anal-retentive <g>! Seriously, I've never beat 2 hours when on a multi-day trip. Overnighters, I've done an hour, but that does not count -- there's so much dead volume in my yaks on an overnight trip I just toss everything inside -- no fitting or anything. My solution on extended trips is Tom's default choice: just budget the two hours and get up at some unholy hour. Seems like I need that two hours for "adjustment time," anyway. There are a couple small things I could do the night before but taking down the tent/tarp/kitchen and packing the yaks are the big time-consumers. If I could program my personal functions for evening I could cut off another 15 minutes, maybe. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Nov 13 1999 - 12:53:03 PST
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