[pct-l] Ray Jardine

[Paul Robison]

LOL
i was 2 sentences into this thinking "i'm going to make a witty comment about 
'why not just live on fritos'"

then you did!




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From: CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
To: Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com>; Matthew Edwards 
<Hetchhetchyman at aol.com>; pct-l at backcountry.net
Sent: Mon, December 20, 2010 10:38:57 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Ray Jardine


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
http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09


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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