[pct-l] Ultimate PCT Food Fantasy

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Comfy,



The gourmet food sounds like a wonderful idea, but there may be a
problem:  Don’t
you know that a long-distance hiker can get the bends coming up too quickly
after months of typical trail-food eating?



Bless you,



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09


On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Dale Combs <comebackwalking at yahoo.com>wrote:

> It doesn't matter how good I am at planning food there is always still an
> element of self-nausea because what it all has in common is that I picked
> it. All my rhymes are of the moon/June variety. My ultimate fantasy was
> always to send one of my typical San Francisco Rainbow Foods type packages
> to someone just about ready to complete the PCT. Mail it to Stehekin.
> So I mailed one today to the hiker whose name rhymes with Zoey Tonka.
> I sent:
> Essex St. L'Amuse aged gouda, Dutch Beemster, Channa Masala, Aloo Palak,
> cherry vanilla granola, carob spirulina energy nuggets, dried pea green
> soup, dried lentil curry, rasberry muesli, dried pears, fried garden veggie
> chips, inca berries, olive oil, hazelnut butter, 5 packets of EmergenC,
> spicy Nori seaweed strips, Peace pasta parmesan, wasabi edemame, hickory
> primal vegan jerky, 18 rabbit granola bar, funky figs and cherry bar, a
> coconut pineapple bar, 3 packets hot chocolate, dried milk, 2 bags parmesan
> cheese, anchovies, tomato paste, 16 oz orzo pasta, can of mandarin oranges.
> 12.75 lbs is what the large priority box weighed.
> After hiking the CDT this summer, the AT a couple years back, the hiker is
> now almost ready to complete the triple crown.
> Today is one of my happiest days of PCT related activity thanks to my
> friend.
> And thanks to everybody, especially trail crews, shuttle drivers and trail
> angels.
> It would take a lifetime of hiking interaction to payback all the nice
> things that people
> have done for me.....
> Comfy
>
>
>
>
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