Backpacking

Today we looked at some more authors and people who have exposed themselves to the wilderness, but more so than the previous authors we discussed. This time we looked at backpacking, which is like hiking but to a much more extreme level. When backpacking you expect to be traveling for weeks or months, covering hundreds of miles. To understand the level of preparation needed for this kind of journey we looked at one author, Cheryl Strayed, and what she needed to in order to make her journey along a portion of the  Pacific Crest Trail. She wasn’t an experienced backpacker, though, and packed more than she probably should have, and some unnecessary things. Her backpack ended up being so huge and heavy she nicknamed it “monster.” Later on after learning about this author we did research on items we think we would need and feel how heavy it would be by putting weights in an example backpack that you might use. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to finish getting all the weights of my items before the end of the time we were doing the activity. The rest of the day we spent watching a movie and then doing yoga.