Re: [pct-l] Calorie Content

[Owen <jrowen@ibm.net>]

Tom Rogers wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the inputs.  Boy, I was making that way too hard.  It looks
> like 100 calories per ounce is a good thumb rule for almost everything I
> carry (and take the extra calories in high fat foods as a bonus).  The
> only trick is to estimate my burn rate in calories per day, which I
> recognize will rise as I deplete my body fat and increase daily
> mileage.  Then, using an assortment of dry foods that will satisfy
> nutritional and esthetic needs, weigh out enough food, in ounces, to
> cover my daily burn divided by 100, times the number of days to the next
> resupply.


Tom - 
My advice (for what it's worth) would be to take some extra food - I've
never met or heard of a thruhiker who wasn't hungry after the first 2 or
3 weeks on the trail.  If there are any out there, I'd like to hear your
story. 

Walk softly,
Jim
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