[pct-l] Food in the Sierras

[Jim & Jane Moody]

And for the East Coast hikers (of which I am one), don't eat the pink snow either.  I understand the color is due to some kind of disagreeable bacteria. 



Mango 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vermilion Valley Resort" <pct-l at edisonlake.com> 
To: "Kolby Kirk" <admin at thehikeguy.com> 
Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net 
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 3:31:00 PM 
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food in the Sierras 

And forgive me if this is obvious, but - don't eat the yellow snow ;) 

Bill 

Kolby Kirk wrote: 
> 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 
>> 
>> ~Dicentra 
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.onepanwonders.com ~ Backcountry Cooking at its Finest 
>> http://www.freewebs.com/dicentra 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --- 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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