Firearms on the trail?

[Engine]

BTW, at first I thought Franco wrote your post. It's a tag team!!

- No animosity here ...it's just important to me that my message be taken in the proper context. To be sure you understand where I'm coming from, I have been backpacking since the mid 70's (a child at that point, admittedly) and until a recent severe injury to some ribs and a shoulder I have always hiked with a traditional load of 40+ pounds. That would not be very fun with the pain it causes now, but in my search for a way to continue doing what I love, the UL methodology seemed the only answer.

As for the OP in this thread, even before my move to UL I have never considered carrying a firearm on the trail even when in Grizzly country, it just wasn't part of what I wanted the experience to be about.

Lastly, Tipi, I do respect your considerable experience on the trail. And I enjoy your blog and trail journal, but I ask that you don't generalize with respect to the UL mindset. We both enjoy the same thing, we just have slightly different ideas regarding how to go about it.

[Il Duce]

Oh, I think ya'll misunderstood me...I was talking about a super soaker. That can be duel use. Water storage/container and feral cat deterrent

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Moved to the General forum.

[Il Duce]

OP went off topic, ha

[f8lranger4x4]

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