[pct-l] Food in the Sierras

[Vermilion Valley Resort]

And forgive me if this is obvious, but - don't eat the yellow snow ;)

Bill

Kolby Kirk wrote:
> I suggest that thru hikers eat the snow when they get hungry. That
> will make the hiking much easier for those coming up later, behind
> them on the trail.
>
> Kolby
>
> On Thursday, April 21, 2011, dicentra<dicentragirl at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> Don't forget... the number of meals you can carry is (# of meals that will fit in a canister) +1.  Because you are going to EAT one of those meals before you store the canister for the night
>>
>> ~Dicentra
>>
>>
>> http://www.onepanwonders.com ~ Backcountry Cooking at its Finest
>> http://www.freewebs.com/dicentra
>>
>>
>>
>> --- On Thu, 4/21/11, Toby Maxwell<tmm19 at geneseo.edu>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Toby Maxwell<tmm19 at geneseo.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food in the Sierras
>> To: "Scott Williams"<baidarker at gmail.com>
>> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
>> Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011, 7:11 AM
>>
>>
>> I am juggling this question too, I have planned lots of high calorie foods
>> and could only fit about 8 'full' days of food, maybe 9 into my bv 500.  Do
>> people sometimes jump to the bearboxes for another day or two after entering
>> the national parks to make sure their food is stored right?  It seems like
>> there's room to use a box at crabtree meadows before whitney and then the
>> next night stay at shepherd pass trail/ tyndall creek (mile 775.0) and by
>> that time 4-5 days of food will have been eliminated.  Does this
>> seem reasonable?
>>
>> -Toby
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Scott Williams<baidarker at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Light weight low calorie food?  Was that a typo?  People ate twice the
>>> calories in the snow that they had eaten in the deserts last year.  Many
>>> who
>>> thought they could make it from KM to VVR had to leave via Kearsarge for an
>>> unscheduled resupply as they simply ran out of food.  They were eating that
>>> much more.  We supplemented everything with snickers, the food of champion
>>> hiker trash!  Seriously, think high calorie low weight for this section.
>>>
>>> Shroomer
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