[pct-l] Food in the Sierras

[Kolby Kirk]

I suggest that thru hikers eat the snow when they get hungry. That
will make the hiking much easier for those coming up later, behind
them on the trail.

Kolby

On Thursday, April 21, 2011, dicentra <dicentragirl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
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> ~Dicentra
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> http://www.onepanwonders.com ~ Backcountry Cooking at its Finest
> http://www.freewebs.com/dicentra
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> --- On Thu, 4/21/11, Toby Maxwell <tmm19 at geneseo.edu> wrote:
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> 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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