100 mile Wilderness Food planning

“This weekend I am dehydrating food and sampling recipes for the trip.
So far I have packaged
Dried Humus for lunch 4
Dried homemade Spagetti 2
Couscous with brown sugar raisins, coconut, dry milk for breakfast 4
Mashed taters, dried beef, gravy
for dinner 3
Stuffing, gravy, add chicken or spam pack 2

Lentil Soup with spam pack 1

And I am testing thai rice noodles with peanut sauce and tuna? Not sure about that one yet.”

“Ten days on the trail with Fridge??

Bring plenty of toilet paper 'cause that boy is full of schit.”

“Marko I can't believe your gonna miss this one.

The Thai noodles turned out pretty good, rice noodles, peanut butter, soy sauce, hot sauce, tuna pack.”

“yea Marko we know who had the HOLE under there arse after we took the Tent down at the FYAO....your area was a crater...........”

“Hey, I gots a hot ass..........what can I say?

And who DEE-STROYED the schit house at that gas station off I-88 in New York?

Shucks El Tee, I would love to do this trip, especially with you jokers!

I will be going somewhere for ThanxG Weekend.

Mount Rogers???”

“uh oh... the fridge and Lthiker on the AT for 10 days.. that's going to be trouble.”

“yea Marko I think Phantom was the one who stinked up the Johnny..........I held my breath then moved out fast and when I seen you headed in I laughed all the way back to the truck..............Cause i know you love the smell.”

“LOL yeah i am glad that all of the privys have good ventilation. Note to self get up and do what I got to do before Fridge.

So all my meals are ready. Food weight before I start adding junk and extras 9.35lbs not bad for 8 days 3 meals a day.
This plus my baseweight of gear at 17.25lbs equals 26.60 add to that 2 liters of water 4.4lbs 31lbs on the nose!!!
I'll be lossing at least one pound a day as the food goes down, I should be flying along the trail after the Chairback range...”

“Dang, I gotta get the self-employed thing movin' so I can take time off like you stinkers.”

“Dried Humus for lunch? No way.”

“With a Pita!”

“I was up that way yesterday Lt, Moosehead area - Very envious of your trip as it's looking stunning.”

“Y2 how where the leaves? They are starting to change around here. I am thinking peak might be in a week or so.”

“Nowhere near yet - you should hit them approaching peak I'd say.

There's one or two trees that are obviously struggling and their leaves have turned early, but otherwise its a sea of green at the moment.

This is a great site for it:

http://www.foliagenetwork.com/reports/northeast_us/

And this is the end of September last year.
http://www.foliagenetwork.com/reports/northeast_us/archive/2006/report_08_sep_30_2006.php

If you go back through last year in the archives you'll get a good idea of where you'll be when.”

“Hey wait a minute Fridge, you told me you plastered the walls of that johnny!”

“Man these dehydrated meals look really small! I hope they are going to fill me up.”

“Dried food always looks small, but bounces right back when you add water. I dried 3 trays of parsley Friday and it barely filled one small bottle in dried form.”

“Lt, you can always eat twigs if'n you get real hungry.”

“"Many parts of a pine tree are edible." Euell Gibbons”

“Survivorman made tea from pine needles.”

“Rich it was actually Spruce tea... saw that episode. I don't know how he keeps staving and dehydrating himself on a regular basis, that can't be good for his health.

I am rehydrating on of my spagetti dinners right now to give it a test. 2 Cups of boiling water add the pasta and sauce then slip it into the cozy to rehydrate.

I'll let you know.”

“Dehydrating himself is probably not good, but going hungry and fasting has been going on as long as people have existed. I read an article once about how some hunting and gathering races of people are genetically prone to gain weight when they have access to unlimited food because in past times they didn't have it so their bodies adjusted for that. I don't know how true it is, but it does make sense.
I dried some hummus last Friday and it looks good, but I didn't try it yet.”

“I think I might be descended from that race. I see food I eat food I gain weight!

The spagetti is very good tastes just like the night I made it. The only bad thing is now I have to dehydrate another portion of it.”