[Philmont]: RE: Philmont Meals

Russell Ballard asks...

Perhaps someone can clear up some things for me concerning the way the trek
books display meal pickups. On a given trek it may show a single commissary
in the food pickup column for 3 or 4 days in a row. Does this mean you pick
up that many days food at the beginning of that leg and carry it the whole
time, or do you pickup one day at a time from that commissary on each of the
days of that leg?

Answer...

You pick up and carry as many meals as you need until you next visit a
commissary - often three or four days worth.

And asks...

Does anyone know the method for preparing dehydrated Philmont meals? Being
dehydrated, do you simple boil water and pour it into the bag with the food
for a few minutes while it to rehydrates? Any idea how much water a given
dehydrated Philmont meal would take?

Any idea what the average weight of a given day of Philmont food would be?

Answers...

The Philmont method is to add the ingredients to the boiling water in the
pot (we are talking dinners only, here). Others will chime in with other
methods of adding the water to the ingredients in various types of bags. If
you are asking if the dehydrated meal package is designed to add water to
the contents in it, the answer is no. The amount of water varies - usually
a cup or so per person

I've never weighed a package, and they also vary - lunch being heaviest,
breakfast lightest - but I've seen others quote 2 to 3 pounds per package
(one meal for two persons). The bigger issue is bulk - they take up a LOT
of room in your pack. Do the math - four days times three meals times six
packages per meal for a crew of 12 is 72 packages total or six per crew
member. Using an average of 2 1/2 pounds, that's 15 pounds per crew member.

And you did not ask, but there are 10 days worth of menus, and you will be
in the backcountry 10 days, so you get each one once (less chuckwagon
dinners, and lunches your days going onto the trail and coming off depending
on you bus schedule and length of the last day's hike). Meals are issued
based on the last digit of the day of the month in June and July and are one
higher than that digit in August - for example, Meals 10, 1, and 2 are
issued for July 30, 31, and August 1.

- Al Thomson, Troop 236, Schooley's Mountain NJ
Treks 1999, 2001, and 2003
Autumn Adventures 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006

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Received on Sun Mar 19 04:08:38 2006