JBS

"engr_38" <keith.mann-jvQPPRsp5iI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ..............................What 
> studies/emperical data does he base these claims?  By the way Ray 
> Jardine claims to have recieved 

Hi Keith,

Quite a few thinking hikers do scoff at aspects of Jardine's "Voodoo 
engineering," especially scientists and engineers who also hike.

We got a big charge out of discussing the most outlandish of 
Jardine's statements on one hike and coined the phrase JBS, (Jardine 
Bull Sh**) to describe the most questionable of these. 

Still, even with their flaws his two books have been influential in 
encouraging lightweight hiking, which is certainly a good thing.

I suspect that aside from questionable science, he is guilty of 
diving overly enthusiastically into brand new offbeat areas while at 
the same time publishing enthusiastic endorsements of them. Endorsing 
Corn Pasta as the great energy food, then endorsing strictly raw 
foods is a telling example of this, I think. 

Many of us have experimented only to soon discover that those 
experiments didn't work for us, but we haven't published glowing 
endorsements suggesting that others follow those experiments while 
they were still ongoing experiments, only  to follow them with 
equally glowing endorsements for something that is completely the 
opposite.     Best,  Don L.