Breakfast: Oat bran premixed with dried milk and brown sugar. Nothing like a good hot meal to start the day. :) Lunch: Wild Oats (a "natural" grocery store) has a great Cajun mix snack food that they sell in bulk. Sort of like gorp but different crunchies with spice and no raisins (I detest raisins (grapes with their life and soul sucked out of them)). That plus an energy bar. Dinner: The "dinner in a bag" meals requiring only hot water, with a side dish of dried potatoes (yes, there will be side dishes with this meal). But I don't take the bag. I repackage the meals into ziplock bags. Why? Space. I can fit food for two people for 7-10 days in two bear cannisters. Since the majority of my extended backcountry camping trips are in a canoe in the BWCAW the space requirements aren't as critical. Although a bear cannister would fit into the rear hatch of my old (and sold) plastic Looksha IV. But it won't fit into my new Romany Explorer. I'm thinking before I go on another long kayak trip I'm going to look into a CD Extreme, it looks like you could fit a cannister in the front and back of that boat. Mel *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jan 17 2003 - 05:40:24 PST
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