[pct-l] No on Proposition Foraging

[Reinhold Metzger]

[pct-l] No on Proposition Foraging

Lindsey, Fireweed,
I think you girls are missing the point.
This "Foraging" thread is all a reply to Eric's original "Thru-Hike Explorer Style" thread
about "Thru-Hiking" the PCT by foraging and hunting without resupplies.
Seems to me that Diane's response, to Eric's "Explorer Style" foraging and hunting without
resupplies suggests doing your foraging and hunting and dehydrating during the off season
for a unsupported PCT thru-hike.
She did not say anything about food cages or resupplies.

If, as you girls suggest, the prior foraged food could then be caged, or mailed to a
resupply point, how does that comply with Eric's goal of a "unsupported", "without
resupplies" thru-hike?

Just wondering,...that's all.

JMT Reinhold
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Lindsey wrote:
...I don't think she is saying that we should carry all the food for the entire trail...
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Fireweed wrote:
.....do the foraging and packaging in the off-season, then use the modern postal service
to mail that foraged food.
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Reinhold wrote:
Let me see now Diane,
At about 2lb food a day x let's say 150 days, that would be about 300lb
of food.
Do I carry all that food in one huge pack or should I you put it all into
a grocery card and push it down the trail all the way to Canada?
   
Would you advice that I put snow tires on the card so it pushes easier in the snow?
Should I bring along a spare tire, just in case I get a flat?
Also, I was wondering, how many bear canisters I should bring along?

Diane,I am so glad you got this all figured out because, as you said, the guys are
thinking about it all wrong and if they were as smart as you, they would do it
your way.

Too bad Mendorider did not know this....he could have left his horse behind.

Wish me luck on my journey,.....I will keep you tuned on how it goes.

JMT Reinhold
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Diane wrote:
Those who really want to try to do foraging or self-sufficiency on the PCT are
actually thinking about it completely wrong.
   
Cultures that practiced nomadism often brought their food with them.
   
If you were smart, you'd spend the off-season foraging and dehydrating
edible plants and mushrooms that you found and hunt some fat large
animals to make pemmican. Then you would have all the nutrition
needed, nothing would slow down your hike and your purism about doing
a fully-foraged hike would be preserved.