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great thread. This is a great thread and it's great that as many people are math/science geeks as I am and obsess about this stuff. It's clear that many of us burn from 6000-10000 calories per day. ... |
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Re: Fueling for short duration (weeks) hikes. "But I was doing nothing more than carrying spare fat, my body already had more than enough fat stores to do a trip like the JMT or your trip listed above." Careful here. There is an ... |
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Re: Fat/carb calories No... not when backpacking. I'm usually on paleo in my day to day life and when I go backpacking it's WAY higher in carbs. Mostly granola bars, oatmeal, dried fruit, etc. |
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Re: Daily calorie requirements for long term thru hikes? I've done lots of research on this topic and your numbers seem incorrect. It's around 400-500 calories per hour to hike. Let's say 400. If you hike for 10 hours that's 4000 cal... |
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Daily calorie requirements for long term thru hikes? When I go backpacking I usually compute how many calories I need to eat per day based on mileage and my weight and then pack that much food. I did 2 weeks this year in Yellowstone and I didn'... |
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Re: Re: Making fried acorn bread. That's what I was thinking... If there are starches in the acorns one could use yeast too. But apparently the Native Americans would just make a flat bread. |
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Making fried acorn bread. I was watching a documentary about native peoples and apparently they would often make a type of acorn bread out of ground acorns. Here's a good link: http://www.undiscovered-yosemite.com... |
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Re: Re: How difficult it is to find standing wood in winter? ha. That doesn't help too much besides being beautiful :) If there is still standing wood every once in a while (propped up next to trees) I can just go for a little hike before dusk with m... |
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How difficult it is to find standing wood in winter? I'm converting to winter backpacking and I'm going to use a hot tent setup with a stove. I'm obviously going to need wood for the stove. With small amounts of snow I imagine it... |
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Re: Im in whenever...wherever PM me your email... I'll invite you to the spreadsheet. It's a LONG way off for all of this stuff so we should just try to make steady progress. |
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