It was done in the spirit of playful fun. But I'll delete the post if you prefer.
Maybe somebody considered a bottle of hooch one of their ten essentials.
I've been trying in vain to find my copy of John Krakauer's essay on the 1st ascent of Mont Blanc. The provision list included cases of wine and brandy. I divided the number of bottles by the number of climbers and days, and found it incomprehensible that they even made it past their first camp.
I'm getting up early tomorrow to do a 24 mile loop through the tetons. If you're familiar with the area, I'm going up the start of Death Canyon, up over the static peak and buck mtn. divides, into the Alaska Basin, then over the Mt. Meek pass, along the Crest trail and the Death Canyon shelf, to Fox Creek pass, and then back down upper Death Canyon. Hoping to do it in 8 hours if there isn't too much snow.
Here's what's coming:
-very light pack
-hydration bladder
-long undershirt
-very light shell
-light fleece hat
-spare socks (waterproof sealskinz)
-water filter
-headlamp
-sun screen (lots)
-food (sandwich, energy gels, and a greasy hunk of sausage)
-iphone w/map software
I'll wear shorts, a synthetic t-shirt, trail running shoes, baseball hat, sunglasses.
nice kit you showed, you have the essentials covered ..
but if you are trying to get caffeine out of the starbucks coffee / via instant
you will have better luck getting something like maxwell house or folgers
starbucks has very little caffeine in it since it is darkroasted ( full city/starbucks roast )
black tea or green tea hsa more caff. and instants i mentioned have at least 2x maybe more caffeine / cup ...
happy trails
john
Yeah... but Via actually tastes like coffee instead of laundry detergent like most instants. But some people do consider beverages essential. Warren Harding hauled
thirty or forty bottles of wine up the Dawn Wall of El Cap for its first ascent. Some of those bottles are still there, stuffed in a crack. A friend of mine packed two
cases of bottles of Pliny the Elder into his backpack (lesson learned the hard way).
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