I’ll try to be exhaustive, feel free to take a miss if so inclined.
Bags:
Arc’teryx RT 25
Bibler bivy stuffsack (lashed under bars, contained bivy sack only)
Homemade stuffsack (lashed under saddle, contained thermarest and some food)
Clothing:
Pearl Izumi bib shorts
PI knee warmers
Patagonia LW capilene LS shirt
SS jersey
Patagonia R.5 hoodie (women’s XL altered to fit me)
Patagonia Spraymaster G-tex
Smartwool knee-high, mid weight socks
Patagonia lightweight low socks
Homemade knickers (for extra warmth, worn only in camp)
Lightweight beenie
Specialized Ridge gloves
Specialized Deflect gloves (windproof)
Specialized BG Pro shoes
Sleep:
Thermarest Prolite 3 3/4 length
Bibler Big Wall bivy
Western Mountaineering Megalite (in a weight weenie compression stuff sack)
Food:
MSR steel pot
Ti spork
3 packs instant oatmeal
1 pack instant garlic mashed potatoes
2 Darjeeling tea bags
6 packs Crystal Light sport Lemon-lime
2 snickers
10 Gu
1 biggie Hersey bar w/ peanut butter
1 block romano cheese
a bunch of peppered salami
2 Clif bars
1 personal pizza (ate at gas station)
1 cherry death pie (ate at gas station)
2 snickers (bought at gas station)
1 big pack Twizzlers (bought)
1 mini can Pringles (bought)
(I also ate some of Dave’s food, but finished with a fair bit of the above uneaten.)
Stuff:
Tube, pump, tools, chain lube
Small emergency/FA kit (iodine, booty lube, etc)
Wallet and keys
Petzl Tikka
Princeton Tec Corona (on bike)
2 24 oz. water bottles
1 6 liter Dromedary w/ hydro hose
Giro helmet
Bike
My pack was too rigid, the gear itself was very stable. Dave’s stove was really handy (I intended to cook over a fire). I was warm all night and had plenty of clothes during the days.
With a lighter bivy, minimalist pad, and perhaps a down jacket rather than a bag, one could have a very light race rig indeed.
PS:
Got sucked into the Nova special on the Dover school board/intelligent design fiasco. It does not make the local yocals, who don’t know what a theory is and lack the imagination to meld Darwin and Genesis, look at all good. I am afraid that public TV has a bias, but I’m ok with that. The asinine aspect of the whole debate, and what truly bothers me, is the arrogance in so much of the rhetoric. Most obviously, I regard the heart of “creationism” as insecurity on the part of humans. Less so, the assumption that life as it exists is for some unspecified reason the best solution to the problem of living-in-the-world. It is, merely because it is our own. Thinking that we can look beyond, ascertain that our way of life is best, and judge accordingly is solipsistic, false, and impossible. Evolution, by means of natural selection, has merely provided a small aray of solutions to the problem of life. Some of which we can see and well understand, many of which we cannot.
That, as the TV tells me, between 1/2 and 1/3 of the present population of the US disbelieves Darwinism and it’s heritage is very discouraging. Bush in 2004 discouraging.
(Thus endeth the most prolific blog day.)
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