[pct-l] hiking calories

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, MendoRider,

Yes, I’m confident that with appropriate additional Calories I would have
easily hiked the approximate 160 miles between Independence and Tuolumne
Meadows without having lost additional weight.  I managed to hike almost
800 miles up to Independence without having lost unplanned body weight, so
given my preferred Calorie load I would expect that trend to continue.

Done properly, I could have carried those additional Calories – inside the
‘can, by the way – without having to carry additional pack weight.  The
reason is the 80 tortillas I did carry had several pounds of moisture.  Trading
those water pounds for food pounds, and by filling the most of the tiny air
spaces in the 'can with high-Calorie food, would have made the difference.

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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<mendoridered at yahoo.com> wrote:

Good morning to you Steel-Eye,
>
"Do you believe that if you had been able to start from Independence with
> 8,000 more calories (extra weight) and would have been able to carry that
> outside the volume capacity of your bear can (illegal), then, you would
> have lost little or no weight? Would the resulting 4,000 calories per
> day have really allowed you to remain at essentially the same weight even
> though the work of crossing all of those high passes was very substantial -
> being more than hiking a similar distance on most other parts of the PCT?"
>
>