[pct-l] NEW REVOLUTIONARY ULTRA LIGHT CONCEPT

[Gary Swing]

I've been a vegetarian since 1989. I had no trouble thru hiking the AT in 2008 without any planned food drops and with no significant weight loss. It might be more difficult to do it as a vegan, at least without planned food drops. I did another trip in 2005, climbing 200 Colorado mountains over 13,000 feet in 3 1/2 months and dropped 30 pounds in that time (from 165 pounds to 135 pounds at 6 feet tall). But that was physically more demanding than thru hiking the AT. I've found that I tend to lose weight at home when I try to stay on a vegan diet. The longest that I ever maintaned a vegan diet was five months in 2009.

My guess would be that people who abandon their vegetarian or vegan diet while thru hiking probably haven't been following that diet for very long.

Gary

--- On Sun, 4/10/11, Rod Belshee <rbelshee at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Rod Belshee <rbelshee at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] NEW REVOLUTIONARY ULTRA LIGHT CONCEPT
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011, 7:31 PM

Re: vegetarian diet:  Just one data point, I successfully completed two thru 
hikes as a vegetarian and had not weight loss on either one.  However, I 
don't know if anyone has collected data to see vegetarians have higher or 
lower success rates.

Steady Sr

-----Original Message----- 
From: Nathan Miller
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 3:10 PM
To: reinholdmetzger at cox.net ; pct-l at backcountry.net ; 
melaniekclarke at gmail.com ; peprmintpati88 at yahoo.com ; losthiker at sisqtel.net 
; montedodge at msn.com ; hiker97 at aol.com
Subject: Re: [pct-l] NEW REVOLUTIONARY ULTRA LIGHT CONCEPT

>Yes, Rooster Reinhold is famous for his chickens on a lease concept.

If you've leased your chickens, doesn't it mean that you'd have to return 
control of those chickens back to their owner when you're done with your 
hike?  Won't that be a bit difficult if you've eaten them?

>I wonder what the veggie crowd thinks of this.

I suppose if they know which plants are edible, they can munch as they go.

>I have met a lot of backpackers who are vegans or veggies.

On a more serious note, I've read that vegegarians/vegan don't last long on 
a through-hike.  It's not necessarily because they bail, so much as it is 
that the super-high calorie and protein demands drive them to abandon their 
veggie/vegan ways often within the first month.

-Nate the Trail Zombie

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