I may have to rethink this
09-12-12, 12:42 PM
#26
Senior Member
staehpj1 - A good question, and my reasoning isn't simple. I suspect my definition of a longer tour is different than yours - for me, it's a week or two. A weekender or a tour of a few days? I'm probably fairly close to home, and it'd be less of a bid deal if the shorter tour got sunk.
I also tend to plan more day-to-day stuff, using Warm Showers and making reservations at campgrounds. I'm a planning kind o' guy, and more comfortable when I have a known plan ahead of me. So re-planning a day or two isn't as big a deal as re-planning an entire week would be.
I would see carrying a spare tire on a shorter tour as paranoia. Particularly when I'm running schwalbe marathons. But I'm on a longer tour, there's more at stake if things get scuttled, and I think I'll be happier knowing I have that spare folding tire packed away.
I also tend to plan more day-to-day stuff, using Warm Showers and making reservations at campgrounds. I'm a planning kind o' guy, and more comfortable when I have a known plan ahead of me. So re-planning a day or two isn't as big a deal as re-planning an entire week would be.
I would see carrying a spare tire on a shorter tour as paranoia. Particularly when I'm running schwalbe marathons. But I'm on a longer tour, there's more at stake if things get scuttled, and I think I'll be happier knowing I have that spare folding tire packed away.
I don't think I'd differentiate what I carried if I were to do a shorter tour. I figure the list I use is fine regardless of trip length. I really have no interest in trips of less than 10 days or so, but I think I'd carry pretty much the same stuff even if I went overnight.
Obviously that is just the way I tour and it is certainly just one of many possible approaches.
