solotripper wrote on Dec 25^th, 2010 at 1:56pm:

A I'm curious about your seemingly magical food pack  :-? Seems like no matter how well or much you ate, it still weighed the same from beginning to the end of your trip. ;D

ST,

I got me a pack just like that one!  Interestingly enough, it shows up in my camp every-other-year and it has been dubbed "the bottomless blue barrel."  Coincidentally, it just so happens that my paddling partner - who goes by the QJ handle of "Matunik" - ALSO shows up in my camp every other year.  Matunik is fond of portaging the big blue barrel with the really fine Ostrom harness attached to it.  Our bottomless blue barrel NEVER loses weight; in fact, some days it actually gets HEAVIER. The odd thing is that - simultaneously - the packs of everyone else in camp grow lighter each passing day.  Magically, items from these other packs disappear and somehow make their way into the blue barrel.

Freaky & mystical canoe country phenomenon, it is!

I think the technical term for it is "transportificatiion" or "transconfiguration" or, er, um... some similar "trans" word that essentially means: that sucker over there is carrying my crap.

Jimbo   8-)