[at-l] Hiking food you love to hate...

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

Dried fruit.  I hiked with it as a staple for 5 or 6 years.  Suddenly one
morning while I was doing a patch-in in the Smokies, actually while watching
the little red squirrel (some of you may be able to name that shelter near
Clingman's Dome), I couldn't swallow it.  I haven't been able to eat it
since.  That was pretty tough, since that was the first day of the hike, and
dried fruit was all I'd brought for my breakfasts.  <G>  anklebear

----- Original Message -----
From: Anderson, Paula_(MD) <PMAnderson@apshealthcare.com>
To: AT-L (E-mail) <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:25 PM
Subject: [at-l] Hiking food you love to hate...


> Since it seems many are preparing their maildrops and other food lists for
> upcoming hikes, I thought now would be a great time for this.
>
> we've all done it...  carried it....  prayed for a garbage can or hiker
box
> so we could get rid of it... buried it in a cat hole... attempted to give
it
> away at shelters...
>
> You have a food you normally really like or simply have no problems
eating.
> you buy it for your hike because its a 'good' hiking food and suddenly
> discover on the trail around 7 days in that you cant stand the smell,
sight,
> taste, texture etc.  @ 10 days you know if you have to eat one more bite
you
> will gag.
>
> For me it was 2 - oatmeal & poptarts.  yep, the ole favorites of almost
> everyone.  Somehow poptarts starting sticking in my throat, i couldn't
> swallow & it was like chewing cardboard for me plus they are heavy as
*&^%$.
> I knew it was hopeless when I started gagging after the second bite.  I've
> recovered from the poptart phobia but still cant face all my leftover
> oatmeal from 2000.. <sigh> and I used to really LIKE oatmeal...
>
> whats yours?
>
> Cheerio
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