[pct-l] Food in the Sierras

[Kolby Kirk]

Yes, good point.  It's a bad idea to eat the yellow snow. The brown
snow has more calories per ounce.

On Thursday, April 21, 2011, Vermilion Valley Resort
<pct-l at edisonlake.com> wrote:
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>     And forgive me if this is obvious, but - don't eat the yellow snow
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>     Bill
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>     Kolby Kirk wrote:
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>       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.
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> Kolby
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> On Thursday, April 21, 2011, dicentra <dicentragirl at yahoo.com> <dicentragirl at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>         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
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> ~Dicentra
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> http://www.onepanwonders.com ~ Backcountry Cooking at its Finest
> http://www.freewebs.com/dicentra
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> --- On Thu, 4/21/11, Toby Maxwell <tmm19 at geneseo.edu> <tmm19 at geneseo.edu> wrote:
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> From: Toby Maxwell <tmm19 at geneseo.edu> <tmm19 at geneseo.edu>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food in the Sierras
> To: "Scott Williams" <baidarker at gmail.com> <baidarker at gmail.com>
> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Thursday, April 21, 2011, 7:11 AM
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> 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?
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> -Toby
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> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>           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
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> 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.
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> Shroomer
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