Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian
Sounds like you're doing my thing: making sure that you have absolutely EVERYTHING because you know that the people that you're with (in my case my family) are going to be carrying the bare minimum or less. I'm the walking drug/grocery/camping supply store...who's the only one who remembered to bring moleskin even though he never seems to need it himself? Who has several spare lantern mantels in his bag? I'd like to think that my group thinks of me as resourceful but it's more like paranoid and obsessive.

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Yup, you nailed it on the head. I've got to be able to provide for up to 100 7th graders, most of whom have never never even been away from their playstations, much less actually out in the woods. My pack has weighed 60 lbs some years.