[pct-l] hiking calories

[Edward Anderson]

Hey Steel-Eye,
 
80 Tortillas! I'm impressed. That's a lot of tortillas. They are shaped perfectly to be stuffed into a bear canister. How many calories each? Corn or flour?  Perhaps I should consider bringing some. How many calories can you stuff (not just tortillas) into a Garcia bear can?
MendoRider
 

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 From: CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
To: Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "pct-l at backcountry.net" <pct-l at backcountry.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] hiking calories
  

Good
afternoon, MendoRider,  
Yes, I’m confident that with appropriate
additional Calories I would have easily hiked the approximate 160 miles between
Independence and Tuolumne Meadows without having lost additional weight.  I managed to hike almost 800 miles up to Independence without having lost unplanned body weight, so given my preferred Calorie
load I would expect that trend to continue. 
Done properly, I could have carried those
additional Calories – inside the ‘can, by the way – without having to carry additional pack
weight.  The reason is the 80 tortillas I
did carry had several pounds of moisture.  Trading those water pounds for food pounds, and by filling the most of
the tiny air spaces in the 'can with high-Calorie food, would have made the difference.  
Steel-Eye 
-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT –
1965 
http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye 
http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/ 


<mendoridered at yahoo.com> wrote:


Good morning to you Steel-Eye, 
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"Do you believe that if you had been able to start from Independence with 8,000 more calories (extra weight) and would have been able to carry that outside the volume capacity of your bear can (illegal), then, you would have lost little or no weight? Would the resulting 4,000 calories per day have really allowed you to remain at essentially the same weight even though the work of crossing all of those high passes was very substantial - being more than hiking a similar distance on most other parts of the PCT?"
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