[pct-l] Trail Nutrition

[markwright at lazy-son-of-a-bitch.com (Mark Wright)]

While hiking up LeConte Canyon to Muir Pass I met an older man named  
Purple Hat (he was also wearing a purple hat - go figure) who seemed to  
be an ultra light backpacker. He stopped to rag on my brother and I who  
were carrying at least twice as much stuff for a much shorter hike. At  
any rate, he was hiking the entire JMT without requiring any resupply  
stops. He was eating food that did not require any cooking. He wrote a  
book about his methods which he self distributes, so it isn't available  
on Amazon. Unfortunately, I have since lost his contact info.

Anybody else met Purple Hat?


Mark

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On May 15, 2004, at 5:17 AM, Mark Verber wrote:

>> Recently I have been researching an approach that would be void of  
>> any cooking
>> requirements at all.
>
> I know a number of people who use a no-cook approach on shorter
> trips... but I don't know anyone who has done a long trail without
> cooking.  Does anyone know someone who has done this.  I know one
> person who try but gave it up pretty quickly.  I think you would find
> your options too limited.  A stove and fuel give you are much larger
> set of food options... especially options that have a high nutritional
> value / ounce which let you add water near the time you need it rather
> than carrying it from your resupply point.
>
> --Mark
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