PART I JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT My name______________________________________

– SEE SYLLABUS FOR DATES WHEN THIS SECTION IS DUE

JOURNALING QUESTIONS FOR BEYOND BACKPACKING BY RAY JARDINE
è HAND WRITE your answers to the following questions on paper and deliver to Coach D's office by the due date. 10% off for each day late.

This text is one philosophy and method of backpacking. Ray Jardine does not attempt to tell us every option. Rather he had "made up his mind" about the best way to backpack. A few people adopt every single idea of the "Ray Way" but most backpackers adopt his central philosophy of lightweight backpacking, but pick and choose form his ideas. In reading the book that is your goal: to clearly understand one method of backpacking (the "Ray way") then choose for yourself what you might adopt, adapt, or some alternative idea you have to his method. Your assignment: read the book and journal your notes on the following questions in your opwn hand writing.


P 11 INTRODUCTION

1. WHAT DO YOU LEARN ABOUT RAY JARDINE THE WRITER IN THIS SECTION?

2. WHAT WAS THE "STANDARD BACKPACKING METHOD" JARDINE SOUGHT TO REPLACE?



P 14 NATURE ENRICHES

1. WHY GO TO THE WILDERNESS AND NATURE?

P16 THE MYTH OF HEAVY DUTY GEAR

1. WHO WAS GRANDMA GATEWOOD?

2. WHAT IS JARDINE'S THEORY OF HOW MANUFACTURERS MAKE GEAR HEAVIER AND HEAVIER?

P22 PACK WEIGHT

1. THROUGH WHAT EXPERIENCES DID THE JARDINES LEARN TO LIGHTEN THEIR LOAD?

2. TURN THE MILES-WEIGHT GRAPH ON P 29 INTO SOME SORT OF A FORMULA. LIKE THE FOLLOWING

EVERY ____POUND I SHED I CAN PROBABLY WALK____ MILES MORE PER DAY

3. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "LIGHTWEIGHT" AND "MINIMALIST" METHODS

4. JOT A WORD ABOUT: BACKPACK

5. JOT A WORD ABOUT: TARP

6. JOT A WORD ABOUT: QUILT

7. JOT A WORD ABOUT: PAD-MATTRESS

8. JOT A WORD ABOUT: SHELL-RAINWEAR

9. JOT A WORD ABOUT: SHARING GEAR

10. LIST THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT OR PROMINENT "MYTHS " TO YOU (AT THE CLOSE OF THIS CHAPTER)

P 51 THE BACKPACK

· ACCEPT: for this item of equipment what are the elements of the "ray way" you are inclined to accept and implement?

· REJECT: what are the elements of the "ray way" do you reject and why do you reject it?

· ADAPT OR ALTERNATIVE: what elements of the "Ray Way" will you adapt or what alternative way might you adopt instead?

P64 TARP AND TENT


· ACCEPT: for this item of equipment what are the elements of the "ray way" you are inclined to accept and implement?

· REJECT: what are the elements of the "ray way" do you reject and why do you reject it?

· ADAPT OR ALTERNATIVE: what elements of the "Ray Way" will you adapt or what alternative way might you adopt instead?

P 84 GROUNDSHEET AND PAD


· ACCEPT: for this item of equipment what are the elements of the "ray way" you are inclined to accept and implement?

· REJECT: what are the elements of the "ray way" do you reject and why do you reject it?

· ADAPT OR ALTERNATIVE: what elements of the "Ray Way" will you adapt or what alternative way might you adopt instead?



P 90 QUILT AND SLEEPING BAG
· ACCEPT: for this item of equipment what are the elements of the "ray way" you are inclined to accept and implement?

· REJECT: what are the elements of the "ray way" do you reject and why do you reject it?

· ADAPT OR ALTERNATIVE: what elements of the "Ray Way" will you adapt or what alternative way might you adopt instead?




P 105 UMBRELLA

· ACCEPT: for this item of equipment what are the elements of the "ray way" you are inclined to accept and implement?

· REJECT: what are the elements of the "ray way" do you reject and why do you reject it?

· ADAPT OR ALTERNATIVE: what elements of the "Ray Way" will you adapt or what alternative way might you adopt instead?

P 111 REMAINING EQUIPMENT

FOR EACH OF THESE ITEMS OF REMAINING GEAR SUMMARIZE THE "RAY WAY" FOR EACH then comment on your acceptance, rejection or adaptation of it:
· STOVES

· COOK POT

· CUP-BOWL-SPOON

· WATER BOTTLES

· KNIFE

· TUB

· WRISTWATCH

· COMPASS

· LIGHT

· JOURNAL

· DITTY BAG

· ZIPPERS

· FIRE STARTER KIT

· PEPPER SPRAY

· TREKKING POLES

· SNOW EQUIPMENT

P 138 CLOTHING

TURN THIS CHAPTER INTO A PERSONAL CLOTHING LIST… THINGS YOU MIGHT TAKE WITH YOU… COMMENT ON EACH ITEM WHERE APPROPRIATE EXPLAINING SOMETHING ABOUT IT AS IF YOU WERE WRITING TO ANOTHER PERSON TELLING THEM WHAT TO TAKE.

P 151 FOOTWEAR

TAKE EVERYTHING IN THIS CHAPTER AND MAKE A LIST OF THE TEN (OR 7 OR 15) MOST PROMINENT THINGS YOU GOT FROM THE CHAPTER (OR DECIDED YOURSELF) ABOUT FOOTWEAR.

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END OF PART I QUESTIONS
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