Did I ever confess my
confusion about backpacking prep lists? All those years ago, on our first
backpacking trip together in Colorado, we were comparing backpacking lists to
make sure we weren’t missing anything. I saw a tide table on yours.
Tide. That’s the detergent we’ve always used to wash our clothes. I
immediately went there. A tide table. I couldn’t figure out why or
how we could bring a table for washing clothes, but I knew you wouldn’t pack
anything unnecessarily heavy, so I just waited to see what it turned out to be.
It never turned out to be
anything on that trip in Colorado. It wasn’t until a later trip, on the
Olympic Peninsula, that I was able to escape that first fatal logic flaw and
realize that a tide table didn’t have anything to do with washing clothes; you
needed to bring along a tide chart anytime you might be walking along the
coast. Don’t want to get caught out on a spit at the bottom of a cliff
during a rising tide. Not an issue I ever had to consider on my
backcountry trips in Colorado.
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