[pct-l] Food,,, The lowly Tortilla

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 Tortilla 's are an often over looked trail food!! Amigo's tortilla's in
Glacier this year filled with fresh green peppers and cheese really hit the
spot. These with eggs and alittle cheese are always tops as well. Fresh
trout?? Fish Taco's!!
     On another note:: Just finished the book " Of Men and Mountains" by
William O Dougas copywrite 1950. One guy snowshoed 48 miles to bring medicine
to sick friends in the snow to Bumping Lake  and back in 16 and a half
hours!!! ( 24 each way) Some of the feats these folks did were amazing. The
topper is when they would snow camp with no gear but an axe and a shovel .
They would find a dead snag in fifteen feet of snow , Chop the top out and
build a fire. Fire would melt down at about a foot an hour and they would
follow  it down with their shovel. Their wood supply was with them as the
fire burned. In the morning they would be 8 or 10 feet down in the snow and
dig an Alcove off to the side of their fire to sleep. ( They would cut white
fir boughes to sleep on, because the needles grow just out to the side) This
would be and comfortable as a feather  bed they said.  ( Not that we need to
do this , but nice in a pinch!)
    As a kid around 1915 , he would go with his brother up near the Goatrocks
to the headwaters of the Titon River , before rimrock lakewas there , and see
real Indians in Teepees spearing salmon in meadows were river was the size of
a creek. ( Indian would stand still as a blue heron till a fish swam by)
      William O. Dougas knew amost all the names of flowers in the cascades
and birds. Great Book on the PCT area in Washington between Crystal Mt. and
Mt. Adams. He climbed Mt. Adams Aug. 18th in 1945 and read that 20 climbers
had been to the top that year. ( That would be a slow weekend today!!)