[pct-l] Food Dehydrator Tips or Recipes?

[Paul Robison]

depends a lot on the area...   in the dessert 4 dozen hikers each substituting 2 
dinners on the trail... chopping up cacti for 100 dinners;  could take a long 
time to correct itself ecologically.

in the cascades,  4 dozen hikers spending 4 hours a piece gorging themselves on 
huckleberries would likely not even go noticed by the wildlife around.

also,  if you venture off the trail even a few hundred feet to harvest foods,  
90% of day hikers etc would never even see the bare spot.

i'd just note that in he beginning the hikers are more bunched up together,  
adding to the ecological impact of foraging, in the slowest growing and scarcest 
of resource sections of the trail.
IMHO,
~Paul




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From: Kevin Cook <hikelite at gmail.com>
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 6:10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food Dehydrator Tips or Recipes?

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
Soon To Be PCT Thru Hiker!
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