The 2 Oz. Backpacker Quotes

“If you need bug repellant in quantity it makes sense to buy the diethyl metatoluamide at the drugstore and make your own dilution. A dosage of 200 milligrams/day of vitamin B-1 taken orally will make your perspiration repellent to mosquitos and thus keep them away. So will the heavy consumption of garlic.”
― Robert Snyder Wood, The 2 Oz. Backpacker: A Problem Solving Manual for Use in the Wilds

“Carrying ability is proportional to body weight. Your performance will be seriously impaired, say the physiologists, if you try to carry a pack weighing more than 20–25% of your body weight.”
― Robert Snyder Wood, The 2 Oz. Backpacker: A Problem Solving Manual for Use in the Wilds

“It’s hard to overemphasize the importance of boot weight. It’s well known that a pound on the feet is equivalent to five on the back, but think what that means on a ten mile walk. If you take an average 2000 steps per mile, it means you lift five tons in ten miles for every pound of boot on your feet! So every pound you save—going from four to three pound boots, or three pound boots to the new two pounders—saves the energy needed to lift five tons.”
― Robert Snyder Wood, The 2 Oz. Backpacker: A Problem Solving Manual for Use in the Wilds

“The important thing to remember is that anyone can (and should) make his or her way to the top of an appropriate hill, ridge or peak. I know of no better way to savor the wilderness.”
― Robert Snyder Wood, The 2 Oz. Backpacker: A Problem Solving Manual for Use in the Wilds