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bottles in your pack, you can use the weight that would have been water for food. Even freeze-dried meals taste great on a cold winter’s night in the wild, but remember that your body needs calories just to keep warm. So pack plenty of carbohydrates.
With all the gear and supplies needed to sustain one under the worst winter conditions your area can offer, that light-weight pack you have been day-tripping on the Appalachian Trail with will not do. But what kind of heavier pack to get depends upon your mode of travel through the wilderness.
Rigid packframes will do fine if you are hiking or even snowshoeing, but they carry the weight too high over the shoulders for efficient cross-country skiing. A big rigid frame will start swaying awkwardly with normal skiing movement. If you are skiing, large mountaineering soft-packs prove practical. The Jensen-style wraparound packs have a wide belt that goes around our waist and stabilizes your load, minimizing side-to-side sway.
Some of these large soft-packs are actually made for hiking, not mountaineering, and if you can find one of these, it is your best bet. The reason is, climbers don’t want pockets on the outside to catch on things, but hikers may wrant water bottles, snacks, etc., a bit more accessible. And outside pockets are a great place for back-country skiers to keep extra wax handy.
We are assuming that you are heading out for no more than two or three days (one or two nights). If you are planning to stick it out for a week in the wilderness, hauling all that you will need in a soft-pack could be cumbersome. So you might want to invest in an internalframe pack. There are such things. They have either two thin metal strips designed into them vertically or in the form of an X. Some internal-frame packs are more stable than others, but all of the designs we have seen take the clumsiness out of heavy loads and give you a margin of comfort between the load and your back.
A pack is a very personal thing, though. Since we are each designed a little differently from the next person, w hat works best for one will not necessarily be best for another. So don’t take a salesperson’s or shopowner’s word for how stable or comfortable a pack will be with the 40 pounds or more in it that you will be toting into God’s country.
Stuff the equivalent into your duffle and haul it down to the store when you are shopping for a pack. In
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