new hiker

“Hey jerseynew--I took a fall today too--on a place I've been 1000times. I was laughing at all the acorns divebombing me, looked up and stepped on a congregation of the suckers-- and all of a sudden my feet rolled from under me.They got the last laugh! Fell hard on my knee, wrenched my back, sprained my wrist. Got some sweet bruises to show for it! BTW, Idaho, I live in MD, near Frederick.”

“i'm just glad you are safe. go to the Masten trip, have fun, meet everyone, learn as much as you can, do the AT in spring when your knee is all healed up. you can use this time to earn some more money, perhaps new LIGHTER gear?”

“Palmerton is going to holding stuff for you. Is there some way of retrieving that?”

“yeah i called the post office and had my package return to sender and called the place i got the tent fro and he hasn't sent it out so when he does hes sending to me not pamerton”

“What tent did you get? Inquiring Gear Whores want to know......”

“FROSTY RIDGE II 2 person 4 season tent”

“That's a 5lb tent! Ok 4 and a half lbs...but that's still heavy.

Start saving and thinking about things in ounces...

http://www.tarptent.com/productsheets/RAINBOW.pdf
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“jerseynewhiker...

Water is VERY heavy if you have to carry large quantities! (Something like 8 lbs a gallon)

My hubby (Thinkbubelz) and I were a bit paranoid about drinking water on our 1st backpacking trip--we carried several gallons each.... Not fun at all... We didn't have a filter at the time. This last trip, however, we were blessed to have a filter (given to us by a fellow TTer - Smiley Girl).... and let me tell you, drinking water that you pump yourself from a nice cold stream is pretty amazing!

BTW- the 1st time I ever put my fully loaded pack on I stepped onto the arctic tundra and immediately fell down face first... (luckily, it was soft, so I didn't get any injuries.)

I've had a knee injury before-- it took 6 months before I could even kneel on that knee and also several months before the water on the knee started to go away...so definitely get some physical therap y if you can and don't just rely on it healing without a little help.

I did find that walking did help a bit, but of course, that also depends upon the injury and what happened to your knee.... (Motrin was my friend for a long time-- took some at night before going to bed or else I would not be able to even move the knee in the morning....)

Glad to hear that you got out okay!!”

“ice and heat therapy on the knee is another good thing.

5 litres of water weighs just over 11 pounds.

there's no water where i backpack, so i know what it weighs.”

“well everyone im happy to say that my knee is healing great been walking around 100% now but not pushing it i want it to heal right i throw a 25 lbs pack on today and went for a hike about 2miles my knee wasn't bothering me so if it stays this way it looks like ill be attending the masten trip just gotta work out the details”

“Cool! Glad to hear you are on the mend! Take it easy, and you'll be back on top in no time. Watch out for all them Eastern hikers dude. I hear they dance around the fire nekkid, singing. LOL!”

“you say that like it's a bad thing!”

“hey everyone just wanted to let everyone know that i'm back major problems on the trail most of it due to too much weight

gee, didnt we get accused of being gear snobs because we suggested he lighten his load? whatevs”

“so did you ever hike with spindle?”

“Nope. :( My childcare wigged out...

He only was out 2 days anyway. Next time however...

:)”

““you say that like it's a bad thing!”
RoamAroundwithachainsaw
4:51:26 PM
10/05/07


Nah, I just wanted him to know the truth before you all shocked him with sensory overload. LOL!”