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at about 7pm, a group of college kids from Akron, OH showed up at the shelter on their first day out, they were all hopelessly overloaded with food, supplies, a hatchet, multiple changes of clothes, and all the rest of the things that the inexperienced hiker drags along with them. I had a little class on cutting weight, and since they were going to be out for two weeks, they resolved to follow my advice, sent many pounds per man home, and eat as much food as they could stomach that night.
Part of their food weight was 3lbs of smoked bacon from one of their fathers pig-farms... I was the recipient of many a thick chunk fried over the huge fire we built up. Life was good.
