[Philmont]: Re: trail menu

"Vannerson, William G." writes...

>>And realize that the meal numbers / date relation is ONLY for suppers.
Supper #2 is issued for dates ending in "2", along with Breakfast #2 and
Lunch #2 for the next day...<<

So since our crew will be hitting the trail on August 2, our actual meal
sequence for the first 24 hrs will be:

SUPPER #2
Home-style Chicken
Green Beans
Pilot Biscuits
Chocolate Cheese Cake

BREAKFAST #2
Granola (French Vanilla)
Apricots
Cliff Bar (chocolate chip/peanut)
Lawry's Original Jerky
Gorp

LUNCH #2
Tuna Fish
Club Crackers
Apple Sauce cinnamon
Tropical Gorp
Gatorade

With breakfast and lunch #2 being eaten on August 3, provided that's the
order in which we decide to eat the meals. Since we'll have several days
worth of meals, we can mix and match if the crew so desires. Correct?

For days with a Chuck Wagon dinner, do they issue that same day's meal but
remove the dinner meal?

Response....

You're on the right track, but missed one piece of the puzzle - the date /
meal number system "breaks down" in August. Since the #1 meals are issued
for July 31, for August 1 they issue the #2 meals, and for August 2 they
issue the #3s. So you will get the #2s for August 11, your last day on the
trail.

When you say "mix and match," I assume you are talking about which order the
entire crew eats the meals, which is entirely a crew decision (and not some
crew members are eating a #4 while other are eating a #5 - I have never
heard of anyone doing that). Ones that are heavier or bulkier are usually
my first choice. Other considerations are eating supper for lunch at a camp
with water to avoid carrying water to a dry camp you are staying at that
night. Or saving a breakfast that requires water (and I see that there are
now only two with oatmeal and a hot drink that do require water) for a camp
with water.

Regarding days with a chuckwagon dinner, exactly. In Logistics, your trek
planner will take a copy of the itinerary for your trek from TREKS 2004 and
fill it out, including the three columns for Day of the Week, Day of the
Month, and Menu Number (based on the day of the month system, modified in
August). The Menu Number column has a "-S" (less supper) for the night you
are scheduled for a chuckwagon dinner (or the Mexican dinner at Abreu) (and
a "-B" if you have the chuckwagon breakfast at Ponil).

By the way, all of the above leads to a unique situation on Trek 4, which
has back-to-back food pickups at Phillips Junction on Days 6 and 7. On Day
6 the commissary will issue one day's worth of food, but since you have the
chuckwagon dinner that night at Beaubien, you only get two meals - breakfast
and lunch for the following day. Since you have to be back at Phillips
Junction the next morning for another food pickup (after they open at 8
a.m.), you will be carrying the lunch back to Phillips Junction to eat later
in the day. So, it is possible (our crew and our sister crew both figured
this out when we did this itinerary in 1999) to skip the food pickup on Day
6, break camp without breakfast on Day 7 to get to PJ at 8 a.m. when the
Commissary opens, get the breakfast and lunch you should have gotten the day
before as well as the normal Day 7 pickup, then sit down and break out a
breakfast.

- Al Thomson

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Received on Sat Jun 5 06:36:46 2004