Hmm..perhaps a big bottle of whiskey has enough calories to sustain a man on a 3 day backpack hunt.
Food Supply for Hunting in remote areas accessible by Bushplane only.
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Hmm..perhaps a big bottle of whiskey has enough calories to sustain a man on a 3 day backpack hunt.
Drywallers also need meth, though.
Hmm..perhaps a big bottle of whiskey has enough calories to sustain a man on a 3 day backpack hunt.
Whiskey isn't for me but I certainly appreciate a 151 Tang Sunset at the end of the day.
4000 calories of MH is going to cost $100+. There's plenty of food and stuff a guy can make himself that is just add boiling water.
Ardent
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I suppose if you want the job to actually get done.
So, what is your packing list for food ?
I would say Tang, 151 and meth should cover it....
30 years ago I hiked the Great Divide Trail ... 1000 km through the Rockies ... solo ... and where you are in the back country and mountains for 7 to 10 days in a row ... alone ... and with no opportunity to resupply.
You have to carry everything on your back and in your backpack .... tent, sleeping bag, cooking stove and fuel, water filter, clothing, ... etc. ... and food for 7 to 10 days ... and till you get an opportunity to resupply.
Freeze dried meals at the time were still very expensive .... and as a student I could not afford them.
What I carried was mostly, dried soups and which I would mix with freeze dried rize, noodles, dried vegetables, dried meat and dried fish ... and spices ... and to create a sort of a stew for each evening. The nice part of this was that you could mix and match different variations each evening ...
My backpack weighted 35 kilograms ... and half of that weight was food for 7 - 10 days.
Every gram ... every ounce counted ... and no, I did not carry bacon or anything that would contain any moisture or water.
It was all just "dried stuff".
You have to carry everything on your back and in your backpack .... tent, sleeping bag, cooking stove and fuel, water filter, clothing, ... etc. ... and food for 7 to 10 days ... and till you get an opportunity to resupply.
Freeze dried meals at the time were still very expensive .... and as a student I could not afford them.
What I carried was mostly, dried soups and which I would mix with freeze dried rize, noodles, dried vegetables, dried meat and dried fish ... and spices ... and to create a sort of a stew for each evening. The nice part of this was that you could mix and match different variations each evening ...
My backpack weighted 35 kilograms ... and half of that weight was food for 7 - 10 days.
Every gram ... every ounce counted ... and no, I did not carry bacon or anything that would contain any moisture or water.
It was all just "dried stuff".
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Raw Bacon (moisture and all) and MH freeze dried rice and chicken have virtually the same calories/gram according to the internet since I have no means of independently measuring it. So chosing one over the other is a matter of personal taste. Bacon isn't going to go bad in the short term.
Guys really shouldn't scoff, we aren't smarter than our Grandfathers.
Bacon and minute rice is for amateurs and MH freeze dried rice and chicken is for pros.
Guys really shouldn't scoff, we aren't smarter than our Grandfathers.
Bacon and minute rice is for amateurs and MH freeze dried rice and chicken is for pros.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
We had a very humble client named Dave, in his 70s who came several years in a row. He could hike his guides into the scree despite his age and didn’t look like much, a slightly built 5’9 150 type guy. After some conversation it came out one soggy day he’d done some trail called the Pacific Crest trail. With our being on a mountain well out of google it just sounded like a nice, hard trail. I imagined it as an American version of the West coast trail gone mountainous. Turns out, it’s 4,270kms long, and he did it with incredibly few resupply drops.
His gear was amongst the fanciest and lightest we’d seen, I learned about Dyneema before it went more mainstream and stuff I’d never heard of, because they didn’t give it as product placement to outfitters free. I made a shopping list though that I still can’t stomach the price of fully completing. I don’t care how you do it, or meet your calories. I can tell you being lighter makes all aspects of a deep wilderness trip better if you’re travelling on your own feet.
Actually through a set of unfortunate circumstances my buddy and I spent a few of days with only two chocolate bars, two bottles of whiskey and 2 grouse. Both shot in the head with magnum rifles. If either of us had aimed a bit lower and blown up the grouse body we probably would have murdered each other!
Third morning we shoot a deer and built a fire right there and cooked up some venison and of course shortly afterwards our supplies showed up!
That's a good point, even if you have freeze dried MH style stuff you can bring cheap "extras" along and stuff them in the pouch while you rehydrate your MH. Minute rice, instant mash potatoes, stove top stuffing, etc. Stuff like that. Cheap and light extra calories.
Quality bacon is almost impossible to spoil. Good "dry" bacon for lack of a better word. Good bacon is properly cured, just like salt pork. People figured out how to preserve meat long before nitrates and freeze drying were available. Not to discount new tech but for sure our grandfathers were smart.
Also, some people have more hardened stomachs, I truly believe this. Whether it's meat or water. My dad would eat meat that was clearly past it's best time. He would scoff at throwing it out, he grew up in the depression. My older brother and I drank out of all the same creeks and streams our friends did. Every now and then one of the friends got sick but not us, we started drinking out of creeks when we were tiny kids. The one time my older brother got sick was 7 days in on a 15 day summer hike and I was like "oh heck, I'm next" but it never happened for me. I guess i got a bit lucky but my brother sure traded his Bakers chocolate ration for toilet paper
Toilet paper can be really expensive on the trail!
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Toilet paper can be really expensive on the trail!
Mountain monies.
This is where the sunflower seeds, nuts and dried fruit come in handy...
Paying for a mountain house breakfast meal when you could buy instant oatmeal is more of a double rifle budget move than I would engage in...
I just had a horrific flashback to eating bulk barn tvp, dried veggies, and gravy powder stew on a long through hike.
If you're worried about cleaning put your digestive system, unwashed tvp will help. It's the ingredient that gives taco bell beef its laxative properties.
This mix takes a lot of fuel to boil. You may need to make a fire which might not be an option on the wildcoast.
In alpine situations where natural fuel is scarce and length of time entails fuel rationing I have a tendency to hammer Lara/cliff bars, nuts and dried fruit.
Those suggesting MRE's, do you really want to carry around several days of MRE refuse with you? I guess you could burn it, but that's not really my style
Prost
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Chocolate covered espresso beans are cheaper
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Go Nuts, make your own bars 14 cups mixture oats nuts and dried fruit m&ms whenever cranks your taste buds, 400 gram bag of marshmallows a couple tablespoons of vanilla extract. You can add peanut butter to but you have to up the marshmallow content. Makes one cookie sheet rolled out, cut into 2" squares. Had mine figured at 600+ calories a bar.
