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Welcome to the world of backpacking. They're a... bit crazy.

• Gordonjcp 3y ago
  My mum was a sport climber back in the 1960s when it was developing as a sport that non-millionaires did, rather than eccentric Victorian gentlemen scaling the Eiger with a team of borrowed Gurkhas. Anyway, she was always baffled by the folk who did stuff like sawing the handles off their toothbrushes to save a gram or two in their backpack. "The weight of a couple of raindrops..."