Thread: Help -Setting up my Huntech Bivy first time

Originally Posted by Jhon

Yes and I understand why. Fortunately I could back the wagon right up to it. Its now on a hook in a chiller for the night. As a cook I'm partial to some meat cooked on the bone.not so much as I'd want to carry a whole one. I was thinking of the 70s-80s when tough blokes were making their way carrying whole (field dressed) carcasses out for the booming venison market. Bet they hurt now...

Not at all, I carried well over 100 out of one valley, average weight 130/140lb plus gear - so total weight about 160lb. Seems a lot when you say it like that, and I was only running about 150lb 'live weight', but it's something you're in the mindset to do and your're fit from doing it.
Go ten pound up from that - and you're in trouble - you know when to 'hindquarter' and when to not.
I did develop a crook lower back twenty years ago, then got into 9 months of 'landscaping work' which is nothing more than digging and wheelbarrowing - and my crook back disappeared and has never come back.

But then, I am 'Mac Lughaidh' (on the Welsh side) which shows some interesting parentage - be very, very jealous.