[pct-l] Ray Jardine

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Shroomer,



I don’t always agree with Jardine – maybe half the time – but I certainly
agree about corn pasta.  It is one of my all-time favorite trail foods.  The
way I like it best is simple:  Deep fried with a little salt.  It has good,
basic, whole-grain corn; corn oil for Calories and palatability; and the
salt that hikers need.



I have prepared it myself at home for a hike, but for convenience I now buy
it ready-to-eat.  My favorite brand is Fritos Corn Chips, although there are
many others on the market.  All of them are just corn pasta -- fried or
baked -- ready to eat.  Yum.



Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

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On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love that old copy too.  It was reading that book that got me slowly but
> surely lightening my load.  Each year in the 90's I'd try at least one new
> Jardine technique per backpack trip.  First was tennis shoes instead of my
> old Vasque boots, and corn pasta.  The tennis shoes stayed, the corn pasta
> was a bust, at least for me.  I know other folks had figured out some of
> the
> ultra light phylosophy on their own, but it was reading Jardine that got me
> to seriously looking at all my gear.  My pack is easily 35 to 40 lbs
> lighter
> than it was pre-Jardine.
>
> Shroomer
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