[at-l] FooooooD!

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

You have a very leisurely hike for 30 miles in 9 days. In general, bring 
enough food as you would for your weekend hikes, plus a couple of days. I'd 
expect you will walk closer to 8 mile days, depending on whether you 
pressure yourself to camp at shelters or not. Expect hunger to begin in 
about 2-3 days of starting your walk. It doesn't hurt to supplement your 
diet with a flexible thing like peanut butter, flour tortillas, honey and 
such. Just plan based on your usual hiking diet for now. Neel's Gap sells a 
limited menu, but you will get to Blairsville (near Neel's if you go to 
Goose Creek) or Helen (out of Unicoi Gap) or Hiawassee (near Dick's Creek 
Gap) or Franklin, NC (after Standing Indian area) pretty quickly.

Have fun!

OrangeBug

BTW, it is to be very warm and clear this weekend in our mountains. Mrs. 
Bug has commanded me to do yard work and last bits of tax stuff. BOO!

At 11:05 AM 3/27/2001 -0500, Ann Pfeil wrote:
>Aloha All!  In my final week of preparations, I find that I'm
>perplexed on the amount of food to carry to start?  Knowing that I won't be
>as hungry as a bit later in the trail (stress?  exhaustion?), I find I need
>the expert's advice on what to carry for my first two 4-day trips.  More
>importantly, how much?  So, if you were to start hiking from Springer
>Mountain to Neel's Gap in nine days, what and how much food would you
>carry?  Mahalo in advance for your sage wisdom.