[pct-l] Food in the Sierras

[dicentra]

Don't forget... the number of meals you can carry is (# of meals that will fit in a canister) +1.  Because you are going to EAT one of those meals before you store the canister for the night
 
~Dicentra


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--- On Thu, 4/21/11, Toby Maxwell <tmm19 at geneseo.edu> wrote:


From: Toby Maxwell <tmm19 at geneseo.edu>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food in the Sierras
To: "Scott Williams" <baidarker at gmail.com>
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011, 7:11 AM


I am juggling this question too, I have planned lots of high calorie foods
and could only fit about 8 'full' days of food, maybe 9 into my bv 500.  Do
people sometimes jump to the bearboxes for another day or two after entering
the national parks to make sure their food is stored right?  It seems like
there's room to use a box at crabtree meadows before whitney and then the
next night stay at shepherd pass trail/ tyndall creek (mile 775.0) and by
that time 4-5 days of food will have been eliminated.  Does this
seem reasonable?

-Toby

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Light weight low calorie food?  Was that a typo?  People ate twice the
> calories in the snow that they had eaten in the deserts last year.  Many
> who
> thought they could make it from KM to VVR had to leave via Kearsarge for an
> unscheduled resupply as they simply ran out of food.  They were eating that
> much more.  We supplemented everything with snickers, the food of champion
> hiker trash!  Seriously, think high calorie low weight for this section.
>
> Shroomer
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