[pct-l] Cookless Soak-N-Eat Foods

[m.karon at comcast.net (Marshall Karon)]

If you are willing to dehydrate your own food, you could make your own 
tasty, nutritious meals that you could hydrate without cooking. My wife did 
that for the Kennedy Meadows to Lake Tahoe section with success. However, 
she did find some meals that didn't hydrate well in cold water and others 
that she no longer liked after several days. I believe this would also work 
from Campo to Kennedy Meadows without problem.

I also met a hiker who did the whole trail without any cooking nor 
dehydrated foods - mainly nuts and vitamins.

However, I would not suggest going without a stove the whole way. When it 
gets cold, you really need something hot. By the time you reach Oregon and 
Washington, the weather will often turn quite cold and damp. And, I think 
you have more variety options with cooking.

But, with each trail town within 3 to 7 days of each other, I suspect that 
going stoveless could work - if your other equipment will protect you if it 
turns cold and wet. Each to their own.

Marshall Karon
Portland, OR
m.karon@comcast.net
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bluce Ree" <bluceree_superstar@yahoo.com>
> To: "Deems" <losthiker@sisqtel.net>; "pct" <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Instant coffee tastes awful?? Cowboy Coffee
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>> I was wondering if anyone had luck with soaking foods
>> ie beans, rice instead of cooking them. I'd like to
>> ditch my stove for this hike. Any ideas?
>>
>> aloha, Bluce
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