[pct-l] Food Dehydrator Tips or Recipes?

[Kevin Cook]

I intend to eat things I find along the trail, wild onions, berries, marmots
;)

I'm serious about the first 2 at least. Coincidentally, this thread had me
looking up what these things look like. I'm going to try to get a guidebook
uploaded to my iPhone.

I don't think thru hikers could really make a huge impact. It's not like we
have a lot of time to stop and forage all day. If a couple dozen hikers
supplement a couple dozen dinners along the way, will that really make a big
difference? I don't think so.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com>wrote:

> There's enough people hiking the trail these days that i'd think we'd have
> to be
> careful what we harvest and eat.  obviously wild onions are almost
> invasive;
> but be careful about heavily subsidizing your food with wild plants from
> near
> the trail,  at least walk off trail a bit if you do.
>
> hope this doesn't sound like bitching.
>
> how do others feel about eating edibles you find as you walk the trail?  is
> it
> considered taboo?
> ~Paul
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
> To: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>
> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 4:10:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food Dehydrator Tips or Recipes?
>
> Good afternoon, Piper,
>
> In ’07 I was taking a break at the junction of the PCT and the south leg of
> the Kearsarge Pass Trail with Stone Dancer, Tree Whisperer, and Swami.
> http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=186913
>
> Swami took that opportunity to cook something to eat, and while his
> hiker-slop was on to boil he diced a big handful of wild unions he had
> gathered just below in Vidette Meadow.  When those onions got stirred into
> the pot the wonderful aroma was almost too much to bare.  There I was:
> eating hands full of my usual dry, brown stuff with a sticky substance –
> plus plain water, of course.
>
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965
>
> http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
>
> http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <
> diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> > >
> > > I do alot of drying, especially during the mushroom season in CA,
> > > which is
> > > right now.  We had a great chanterelle hit yesterday, but they are
> > > better
> > > sauteed and frozen as they loose so much of their delicate apricot
> > > flavor
> > > when dried.  But of the wild ones, porcini, honey muchrooms (our close
> > > relative of shiitake) oysters, and just plain old meadow mushrooms,
> > > (the
> > > wild variety of store bought buttons and portobello) are all great
> >
> > > ....
> >
> > >
> > > Shroomer
> >
> > That clears up the trail name question!
> >
> > Got any photographs of all the wild California greens you find? I am
> > in California and would like to know what is edible.
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~ Kevin
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