Food
We are each responsible for our own breakfast, lunch, and trail snacks.
{My staples will include a french press mug for fresh coffee; cinnamon/nuts/oatmeal sealed, cooked, and served in individual seal-a-meal bags; instant soup/cheese/crackers for lunch; dried fruit and energy bars for the trail.}
I see us using 2-3 stoves to boil enough water for all our needs. We'll need only a few pots and pans.
For our dinners together, Graham has point ( with my lapdog assistance) to outline proposed dinner menus. Graham will have more to say about this. The intention is to package up meals that could be easily prepared with minimum of cleanup. These are mostly dried or dehydrated ingredients, augmented with some fresh and some spices. Prep should mostly involve heating food packages in boiling water or stirring boiled water into bags of ingredients.
Please respond to this post sharing any dinner desires as well as diet limitations.
Water
Parks Service recommends that we treat all drinking water.
1) Bob has volunteered his new water treatment gizmo that looks like a ball point pen. It can treat a liter at a time in about a minute. Good for about 500 liters before re-charging.
2) Supplement that with standard iodine tablets.
3) If necessary, we could boil additional water at dinnertime.
Food prep and cleanup duty will rotate among teams. Each evening, 2 men will be responsible for setting up cook area, preparing and serving dinner. 2 different men will be responsible for cleanup and hanging food/etc. on bear line, as well as retrieving it from the bear line the following morning.
4 comments:
Food limitations: None
Food desires: I implicitly trust Graham's creativity. (Plus the trail has a way of making pretty much everything taste amazing.) I guess one desire would be for the food to be as light as possible.
Are out-of-towners expected to prep a couple of dinners and transport, or is it all being handled in Seattle? Just want to be clear.
Vargo and I have decided to carry a water pump/filter for max flexibility.
I doubt there will be a lot of meat consumption - but for the record, I'm a vegetarian (I eat fish, but no other meat).
No-one uses Iodine anymore.
If you want back-up get some Aqua-Mira. It is chlorine dioxide - sold as Aqua Mira in the U.S., or Pristine in Canada. It comes in two bottles. You mix drops of each together and chlorine dioxide is formed after five minutes. You then put that mixture into a liter of water, and it is purified in about a half hour, depending on the water temperature and clarity.
Pre-filtration is recommended.
Extra pumps / filters are a good idea since we will need to stop and produce quite a lot of water for eight hikers. On a hot day I go through about 1 - gallon of water on an 8-mile day hike.
8 oz per 15 minutes is the recommended amount while hiking. Adding cooking and clean-up water for for eight hikers probably puts us at 10 to 12 - gallons per day that needs to be purified.
We will also need water storage for our time in camp each night. (folding containers, bottles, or pails?)
Rob
Calorie needs -
I've been working on my meal planning.
So far I have breakfasts and three snacks per day (mid morning, lunch, and mid afternoon.
The daily calorie total is around 1750 per day without dinner. Any idea of the caloric value for the evening meal yet? I probably need to increase the other meals to get up to 2500 to 3000 calories per day.
What are the rest of you thinking?
Rob
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