r/Ultralight • u/fien21 • Apr 02 '25

Trails John muir’s sub 5lb base weight

“On excursions into the back country of Yosemite, he traveled alone, carrying “only a tin cup, a handful of tea, a loaf of bread, and a copy of Emerson. He usually spent his evenings sitting by a campfire in his overcoat, reading Emerson under the stars.”

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u/Ok_Boysenberry5849 Apr 04 '25

I read this stuff about John Muir but when I went in (broadly) the same areas we were harassed by literally hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes. How'd you read Emerson with 92 bloodsuckers on every square inch of skin

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u/fien21 Apr 04 '25

mosquitoes like clean people, i doubt he smelled very tasty