[pct-l] TORTILLAS!!!

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Iceaxe,



Your memory is good: In ’09 at KM I did, indeed, tell you of the ’07
tortilla-and-peanut butter trek through the Sierras.  The bear ‘can was
about half full of tortillas, with jars of peanut butter on top.  The
remaining space was filled with giant-size Snickers bars and raisins for
snacks.  I also had one small squeeze-bottle of honey.



As a result my three-meals-per-day were tortillas and peanut butter:  1)
Plain, 2) with honey for as long as it lasted, 3) With raisins sprinkled on
the PB, and/or, 4) with electrolyte salt sprinkled on the PB.



It became a little tiresome, but meal-planning wasn’t a big event, and I
continue to like all those items today.



By the way, in Independence when I was summing the Calories for the upcoming
sections, I noted with interest that each giant-size Snickers bar contains
three “servings”.  That’s a laugh.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Matthew Edwards <hetchhetchyman at aol.com>wrote:

> God I LOVE Tortillas!
> I have had great luck with El Aguila Brand back here at home. I never
> refridgerate them and have never had them get moldy. I eat two a day usually
> with peanut butter, cheese, SPAM, or tuna, and sometimes a combination of
> those. A ten pack lasts me 5 work days (Breakfast and dinner!).
> I just bought whatever brand I could get on the trail and all of them
> lasted just fine as I ate 3 per day on the trail. Though tortialls are not
> really Calorie dense I found I never tire of them.. MMM Nutella and Honey
> warmed on the alcohol stove.. (Much Salivating!)
> Anyhow, I think my high rate of consumption precluded any chance for them
> to grow visible mold.
> Let's face it, tortillas are heavy per unit calorie (1 lb 8oz per 10 large
> @ 190 Kcal each or a total of 1900 Kcal for the pack.
> The reason I accepted the weight trade off is the simplicity it imparts to
> mealtime and no bowl to clean.
> I always carried them in their own zip pack and kept it closed religeously
> when not retrieving them.
> Hey, SteelEye told me a great story how he had packed his bear can with
> packs of tortillas and jars of peanut butter and jam for a Sierra crossing.
> I think it was SteelEye that told me that anyways.
> I am not sure if the ones I bought in various towns were loaded with
> preservatives of what but I never lost a tortilla on the trail to spoilage
> nor met a tortilla I did not like.
> Oh Yea, I am speaking of Flour tortillas.. As I found out in Old Station
> Corn tortillas make poor PB and J's and are rather crumbly.  ;)
> Thanks for reminding me.. I am eating one now!
> -Iceaxe
>
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