No cook backpacking food?

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  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Even though I don’t usually hike that area, thank you for the trail maintenance.
  • Milocmolly
    Milocmolly Posts: 23 Member
    See if you can find an MRE at a military supply store. The newer ones aren’t too bad, plus they have warming items already in them so you can an heat up your food.
  • ladyreva78
    ladyreva78 Posts: 4,080 Member
    A bit off topic, but I am looking forward to nice pictures from your hike... :smiley:
  • SuzySunshine99
    SuzySunshine99 Posts: 2,989 Member
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    I'm glad someone else knows that road!

    I did Dead Horse Point (the narrow part with the cliffs and no guard rail) up to the top on a gravel road bike a couple years ago.

    Wow, that sounds like a challenging ride...but I'm imagining it as less scary than being in a car. I've driven it twice, and was terrified of encountering another car on Dead Horse Point.

    I love the area around Mazama and want to go back, but we've been hesitant to book it due to wildfires in that area in recent years.
  • GiddyupTim
    GiddyupTim Posts: 2,819 Member
    John Muir said a man (or woman) can survive on bread and tea.
    But, jeez, who wants to be so austere!!!
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    I need to give everyone an update.

    I spent the day doing trail maintenance, but got stormed off the mountain and camped down below in the river valley instead. Which I regretted almost instantly. Forecast changed when I left, a friend texted me a warning about thunder storms, it was 45F when I arrived, and hailed for hours. I didn't want to be in an exposed high camp in a storm, relying on down to keep me warm. I wimped out. The sky cleared up when I was nearing the end of the hike.

    I took a lot of the food advice people gave me, and it worked very well. I don't think I saved weight or space, but my god it was better than Mountain House kind of meals!

    Big thank you to everyone who contributed their advice!!
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    lorrpb wrote: »
    Even though I don’t usually hike that area, thank you for the trail maintenance.

    Perhaps one day you'll hike out there. If I knew a person would only ever do two hikes in their entire life, I'd urge them to make this section of the PCT one of them. I'll share pictures when they're ready to help everyone see why.

    In "Trail Skills College," they taught us to cut or pull out (get the roots too) any sapling growing immediately near the trail. They told us it'll have to go eventually, get it now before it gets big and becomes a felling operation. Or one day the trail will have to be rerouted which will take yesterday and hundreds of thousands of dollars for all the paperwork.

    I killed a lot of saplings, and felt bad each and every time. There were several larches (aka tamaracks) I was supposed to cut, but I won't.
  • SuzySunshine99
    SuzySunshine99 Posts: 2,989 Member
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    I need to give everyone an update.

    I spent the day doing trail maintenance, but got stormed off the mountain and camped down below in the river valley instead. Which I regretted almost instantly. Forecast changed when I left, a friend texted me a warning about thunder storms, it was 45F when I arrived, and hailed for hours. I didn't want to be in an exposed high camp in a storm, relying on down to keep me warm. I wimped out. The sky cleared up when I was nearing the end of the hike.

    I took a lot of the food advice people gave me, and it worked very well. I don't think I saved weight or space, but my god it was better than Mountain House kind of meals!

    Big thank you to everyone who contributed their advice!!

    You didn't wimp out...you followed your instincts to keep yourself safe. People get themselves into big trouble because they ignore their instincts.

    I'm sorry it didn't work out the way you would have liked, but at least you got home safely.

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