[pct-l] Dehydrated food on arid stretches of trail?

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

With dehydrated food, you can opt to just drink the water if you  
aren't hungry or the food isn't appetizing. It keeps better, too.

Most people don't carry ALL dehydrated food. They carry all different  
kinds of food. You will probably do the same.

Even when the water is scarce, you typically pass one water source  
each day at minimum. At the water source, you could opt to rehydrate  
just that day's worth of food. Get it started soaking and then heat  
it up later, if that seems like a good idea at the time. That way  
only one day's worth has moisture.

On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:

> From: Ron Graybill <rgraybill44 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] Dehydrated food on arid stretches of trail?
>
>>
>> This may be be a niave question, my being a relatively  
>> inexperienced hiker
>> planning my PCT adventure.  But is there any advantage to carrying
>> dehydrated food on stretches of the trail where water is scarce?   
>> I mean,
>> what's the difference between having to carry extra water to  
>> hydrate your
>> food, or carrying food from the grocery store that already has the  
>> moisture
>> in it?