RE: [Philmont]: Inedible Trail Food???

For those simulating with pet food or other items (bricks & towels in stuff
sacks, etc) the dimensional characteristics of a philfood packet, give or
take, is a cylinder about 5 inches in diameter and about 10 inches long
weighing about 3lb. This is a two person meal. So, pretty much worst case,
independent of crew size, is a four day pickup meaning six of these beauties
per or about 18lbs and about 500 cu inches. When I do the math the weight
feels right, but the bulk doesn't ... my recollection was that it took more
like 1000 cu inches of my pack space. Anyway ... there it is ... the
challenge is the bulk first, the weight second.

I know meal stripping has, and will come up. First I'll say to each their
own, what works for you and your crew is most important. We toyed with
stripping and consolidating and abandoned the idea for several reasons.
First, if you take the meals apart and mix up the contents you are going to
have to put them back together ... this will take time and effort ... mostly
time that is best spent, IMHO, doing something else ... like looking at the
scenery. Second, stripping is a group think thing that is depriving
somebody of calories ... everybody has different matabolisms, needs and
desires. Better in my opinion to drop the excess in a drop box after you've
decided you don't want it rather than before you know if you will want it.
On our '04 trek we ate everything except the green beans.

Jim Thompson
SM T6
PSR '74, '04, Jambo (don't ask) '05, '06

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Received on Thu Aug 25 22:01:24 2005