[pct-l] food strategy,

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, HalfMile,

Hiker hunger seems to hit me earlier than it does many others, and it seems
to depend upon my conditioning.  If I’ve trained long and hard for a hike
I’ll be hungry from the first day.  In ’07 I loaded 4,000 Cal/day from the
start, and kept it there until resupplying at Independence.  That seemed
generally appropriate for my average 20 miles/day, but it didn’t include any
of the pig-out food at trail town stops.  At Independence I faced a fairly
long section and was volume-limited by my bear ‘can.  I packed 3,200 Cal/day
and became a bit gaunt by the time I got to Tuolumne Meadows even though I
also made a non-resupply visit to VVR and ate like a plague of locusts.

Other years I’ve hiked for several weeks before the onset of heavy-duty
hunger.  During those periods I make an effort to eat my daily ration even
though I’m ambivalent, possibly due to the heat.  Sometimes when I’m not
really hungry and I don’t eat what I think I should I run out of gas before
the end of the day and have to bribe myself with some kind of goodie to book
that last five miles.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Halfmile <list at lon.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:05 AM, CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
> wrote:
> > When I report in from the trail I only need to tell her:
> > 1) How many Calories per day I want.....
>
> Steel-Eye,
> I'm interested knowing more about the calorie per day variable in your
> resupply planning. Does it change much after the first few weeks few
> weeks on the trail? Does it max out at some point?
> -Halfmile
>