[pct-l] Cramming a BV450

[DA]

Excellent advice excellent!  I am a beginner backpacker who's first backpack trip was "seventy days in the sierras, and I'd never back packed  before" it's also a seminar I do.  I was able to pack 10 to 12 days of food, with first day in pack method.  As one person on this website last year was very funny in saying, that a bv450 can be packed with pure macadamia nut butter and that is 186,000 calories. I will be back out this year for 120 days and thanks to all the folks on this list, the PCTA, and all the hikers I met on the trail.  
Caddieman
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Ellen Shopes" <igellen at comcast.net>

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:37:29 
To: <Pct-l at backcountry.net>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cramming a BV450


Take the 'factory sealed' stuff out of it's packaging!  It's desicated
enough to last without it and will pack into the can better.  Some volume
can be saved by cramming loose stuff in spaces between packages.  (I've
heard of rice and oatmeal being carried loose.)
My husband and I got 10 days worth of food into our bear canisters (except
for the dinner we were eating that day).  OK, we did lose some weight during
that portion.  Leave out the lowest calorie stuff, search the web for
powdered versions of foods.  Wildernessdining.com has powdered cheese,
butter, peanut butter, beans, etc.  don't take stuff you can't stomp on and
crush into the can.
Ellen

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Margavage" <davidmargavage at gmail.com>
To: <Pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 12:34 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Cramming a BV450


>I was thinking of doing 10 days without a town stop in the Sierra's.  So I
> got a BV450 and started stuffing.  I packed in 5 dinners, 5 lunch, 7
> breakfast and snacks for a total weight 5.72lbs.  I mean it was crammed
> full
> and I still had another 3.25lbs that I could not get in it.  I was think I
> can have the factory sealed food in my tent.  Would a Ranger have an issue
> with that? Do they make extensions for the BV ;-)
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