Seven hours to go

[morsla]

The bags are mostly packed. I've taken a bit of extra gear, as my pack seems to be a lot larger than aeliel's.

We have new scales in the house :) I'm now about 61kg, which means that I've finally gained a bit of weight. With the amount of food that I'll be eating over the next week, even after all the walking I might gain a bit more... I don't really have any body fat to replace with muscle, so muscle mass will add to the total. Mind you, I'll be burning energy at a good rate of knots.

Unfortunately, with the gear that didn't fit in the other pack I'm now carrying about 25kg + water + fuel. Adding in boots and a jacket, it'll end up being uncomfortably close to 50% of my body weight when fully loaded for the trail, which seems a bit imposing.

Fortunately, about a third of that is food. I think I'll be doing my best to eat most of the food before we cross the Pelion Gap, but I'll still have to take the full load up to the top of Cradle Mountain on Monday. This should be interesting...

Comments

[harkon.livejournal.com]

I am sure some sleep at the t - 7 hrs is a pretty good deal. You probably won't see this; but bon voyage!

[virtual-munkee.livejournal.com]

oh my, i am almost the same weight as u for once!! i was despairing greatly bout my lardness :P

nice work on the weight gain, my boy has trouble gaining weight cause he runs/cycles/trains so much!