[pct-l] going 100 percent freeze dried... was --> How to handle and pack a bear canister........

[Greg Kesselring]

My guess is that all freeze dried would leave you coming up short with 
respect to calories.  And fat.  You might consider adding some nuts or 
nut butters for their high calorie to weight ratio and high calorie to 
volume ratio.

If you really want to go 100 percent freeze dried, I'd calculate the 
calories and see whether it would be enough to satisfy.  If you're 
hiking many hours a day, you could end up feeling pretty hungry on a 
2500 cal/day diet.  Lots of miles and lots of elevation gain and I bet 
5,000 per day would feel a lot better.

Last but not least, if you want to do the 100 percent freeze dried, give 
it a try at home first.  Eat nothing but freeze dried for two or three 
days and see how you feel and how your digestive tract handles it.  I 
learned the hard way early on in my backpacking career that for me the 
freeze dried stuff is like eating drano, the stuff just goes right thru 
me and I feel like I'm getting very little nourishment from it.

Greg

cvano at tmail.com wrote:
> I'm still not sure about all of this.  What if I want a tortilla or 
> something else on the second night that I didn't plan on in the 
> morning.  I think that a bear can, just like a backpack or purse, moves 
> every desired item somehow to the bottom.  So you unpack the whole thing 
> at the meal stop, find the one item on the bottom, pick up all the stuff 
> from the trail, dirt, rock, etc. and somehow put it back in.  Now, the 
> trash goes on top?
>
> ...
>   

> At this point I'm thinking of just carrying two on my upcoming JMT.  
> Twice the food, half the headache, 2.7 more pounds.  Also I'm just 
> thinking of going all commercial freeze dried.  Still haven't found the 
> dehydrated rum, but an empty plastic fifth of Captain Morgan makes a 
> dandy fuel storage bottle and it fits nicely in the pack.  Due to 
> Murphy's law, I'll use Powerade bottles for water.  Even in the dark, 
> and with a snoot full, I can tell the difference.  C
>
> On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 4:27 pm, Andrea Dinsmore wrote:
>