Day one: 3 hour hike to O'Neil camp, arrival at 7 p.m. Meal of instant brown rice w/Parmesan, basil and olive oil. We set up the tent & found the waterproof coating sticky, gummy, ew.
Day two: 6 hour RT day hike to Ench Valley from O'Neil. Ran out of snacks on the second break>>eating curried lentil soup dry as snack. saw sleeping hammocks. one pair hiking out with less than 40 lb betw them. How did they do that, besides carrying a 2 lb tarp tent. we were SO-O-O tired.
Day three: 3 hour walk back to trailhead. so tired. We NEVER walked this much!
Backpackers' meal plan
Snacks: store bought dried plums, Home dried Granny Smith apples, homemade tofu jerky
Meals: Alpine Aire Pasta Roma (yech), instant brown rice, falafel, quinoa flakes, amaranth, maskal teff, dried onions, dried celery, instant oatmeal. Fresh bread w/spread (first night).
spices: salt sugar, basil,
olive oil, canola oil.
ugly nonstick sauce pan kept slipping off the Giga stove. No more trips for saucepan. fork began to melt when used as a spatula to turn the falafel. awww.
Thought we had too much food. Not true, only had 3.5 lb left after trip of 48 hours. We forgot to weigh the food before hitting the trail. Now we don't know how much food we eat per day.
Garcia Bear can:
614 cu in/10 liters works OK for us scratch cookers. Our plastic bags of rice (instant brown or white), falafel, flour, quinoa seed & flakes, oatmeal, spices and such conform nicely. Add a small bottle of cooking oil & we've got meals for days. Theoretically, if that 10 liters were all carbs, like amaranth it'd weigh ~14.7 lb. If I ate 2 lb per day, I'd survive for 7+ days. But we bring dried apples and raisins which don't compact as well as small grains. Because bread takes up too much space, we usually eat it the first day out. The packaging of freeze dried fud hasn't the flexibility of plastic bags--prob wouldn't get as many days worth of food.
Oh boy. I lost 4-5 lb on the trip. Weren't we drinking enough water?
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