The following commissary lists furnished by Mr. H. W. Playter have been carefully worked out, tested, and found satisfactory. They are printed with the hope that they will prove reliable models for other ambitious knapsackers.

Provisions used by four people for two days, back-packing from Rockdale to Snow Lake:

• 1 pound cheese
• 1/2 pound rice
• 1 pound prunes
• 1/2 pound butter
• 1/2 pound bacon
• 2 pounds flour
• 1/2 pound apricots
• 1 1/4 pounds sugar
• 1/4 pound baking powder
• 1/4 pound coffee
• 1 dozen eggs
• 1 loaf bread (pumper-nickel)
• 21/2 pounds ham
• 4 squares Maggi soup
• 2 squares Oxo
• 1 can milk

A total of 14 pounds or 1 3/4 pounds per person per day.

Provisions used by two people on a seven days' back-packing trip around Mount Rainier, moving camp every day:

• 3 pounds bacon
• 1 1/2 pounds cheese
• 1 3/4 pounds sugar
• 11/2 pounds rice
• 4 pounds flour
• 2 pounds apricots
• 2 pounds prunes
• 1/4 pound baking powder
• 12 squares Maggi soup
• 6 squares Oxo
• 1/4 pound salt

A total of 16 pounds or 1 1/7 pounds per person per day.

Provisions for three men seven days back-packing on Mount Baker, moving camp every day:

• 4 pounds bacon
• 3 pounds prunes
• 4 pounds sugar
• 2 1/4 pounds rice
• 6 pounds flour
• 3 pounds apricots 2 1/2 pounds cheese
• 1/2 pound baking powder
• 1/4 pound tea
• 1 pound chocolate (stick)
• 1 pound nuts (assorted)
• 10 squares Maggi soup
• 10 squares Oxo
• 1 box Grant's crackers
• 1/4 pound salt

A total of 30 pounds or 1 3/7 pounds per person per day.

A minimum weight was used by Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Bennett on a 17 days' trip, October 9 to 25, 1916, back-packing from Bear Gap to Goat Rocks, Mount Adams and Glenwood:

• 2 1/2 pounds Maggi soup sticks
• 4 pounds Olympic pancake flour
• 1 pound cornmeal
• 4 pounds hardtack
• 2 pounds Grant's crackers
• 4 pounds bacon
• 2 1/2 pounds apricots
• 2 pounds cheese
• 3 pounds raisins
• 1 1/2 pounds walnuts
• 1 1/2 pounds butter
• 2 1/4 pounds ~sugar
• 2 pounds chocolate
• 1 pound coffee
• 1/2 pound salt

A total of 34 pounds or 1 pound per day per person.

The cooking utensils carried were in each instance a knife, fork, spoon, tin-cup and plate apiece, one extra spoon, one or two frying pans, one small cake pan, one quart pail and one quart-and-a-half pail. Sugar and flour were always carried in water-proof sacks. Rice was carried in small sacks. Some advocate carrying all eommissary in large water-proof cloth bags. Mr. Harry MeII. Myers furnishes lists in a different form. The following menus used by three men for two weeks' back-packing on Mount Rainier make up a commissary weighing slightly over 1 1/2 pounds per man per day:

Breakfast

• Corn meal mush, or Prunes, 6 ounces
• Cream of Wheat. or Bacon, 4 ounces
• Cracked wheat, 6 ounces, or Grant's crackers, 6 pieces
• Prepared pancake flour, 9 ounces

Lunch

• Nut meat~, 2~ ounces Chocolate, 3 ounces
• Raisins, 6 ounces Cheese, 6 ounces
• Grant's crackers, 6 pieces

Dinner

• Maggi Soup, 2 cubes Apricot~, 6 ounces
• Boiled rice or spaghetti, 11 ounces Grant's crackers, 6 pieces
• Bacon, 4 ounces Tea
• Assorted evaporated vegetables every other day, 4 ounces

Besides this, 8 ounces of white sugar, 2 ounces of brown sugar (for mush) and 1 1/2 ounces of salt per day were allowed, but no coffee, butter nor milk.

Mr. Myers writes: "It was found very convenient to have all the articles packed by rations, that is, each 6 ounces of corn meal in a paper sack, 4 ounces of bacon sliced and wrapped in waxed paper, etc. Individual lunches were put up in paper bags and three of these in a larger bag for one day. All of this is work in preparation but it saves time in camp and assures one that the grub is going to hold out to the end.