The traveler reduced her total kit to twelve pounds to travel alone 600 miles

Evidence

I tried a horse, mended my clothes, reduced my pack to a weight of twelve pounds, and was all ready for an early start, when before daylight I was wakened by Evans’s cheery voice at my door. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 140

Categorization

• FICTION: A twelve-pound pack for a 600-mile solo journey is a vivid constraint for imagining a woman’s self-reliant passage through the Rockies.