Steve
Just think of the weight and space you will save, no stove, no fuel, no pots and pans.
This list pertains to a short overnight backpacking trip. Admittedly for a 5-nighter it gets old.
this is pretty spartan, but I can be happy with 1600-1800Cal/day and reduced appetite at higher altitude. This would not satisfy a PCTer would be on MUCH longer trip and need much more
Day 1
This day is easy- take a bunch of sandwiches,etc from Schats Bakkery or elsewhere. These can all be carried outside the bear can as they will all be consumed that day. If you are doing Whitney as a dayhike and think you need more calories, then do that.
Day 2 and beyond
Breakfast
Hydrate up with a quart of water while breaking camp and eat 3 or 4 fig newtons. You would be surprised fig newtons travel well. Take a quart of Tang or Koolaid to sip throughout the morning. Lots of Calories in that quart.
Snack - granola or candy or breakfast bar of your choice
Lunch - salty nuts, jerky or better is dried bacon bits from salad dressing isle (NOT Bacos), small wheel or 2 of Jarlsburg cheese (in wax wheel they keep well for 3 days easily), sesame sticks or other similar, etc . Desert- some sort of non-melting candy -I like Neccos and M&Ms, peanut M&Ms
snack - GORP made even better: raisens, peanuts, M&Ms
supper - nabs, smoked/salted country ham or Smithfield ham (no need to refrigerate or cook), more cheese, soft taco/flatbread with PB, more spiked GORP - I could live on this stuff.
You can make many variations of this. I do not like coffee and do not need hot tea or cocoa in summer. Water works but you can bring all sorts of flavorings
Day 3 and beyond
Improvise on variations of the above
Last edited by saltydog; 07/12/17 04:38 PM.
