Who's Hungry??

I am buried under a pile of food, or at least my basement is.  Food resupply packing for the trip is in full swing.  My basement has been turned into a 12 year old boy’s dream; junk food everywhere.  I felt guilty when I went trip shopping with my five year old. I must have looked like the worst parent ever as I pushed him through the check-out line, with junk food piled in, around and on him in the cart.

I am planning on 3 resupplies: Tuolumne Meadows, Red’s Meadow and Muir Trail Ranch.  The boxes for T.M. and Red’s are all packed and waiting to be taped up and sent out.  The MTR supplies are gathered, but the problem is that I cannot get them all to fit into the 5 gallon bucket.  If I can not get them to fit into the 5 gallon bucket, how in the world am I ever going to get them fit into by ber canister? I am definitely starting to worry. I probably have too much food, but but I am worried about my hunger kicking into high gear during the second part of the trip. I will have to carefully pack once at MTR.  Any extra food will be donated to the hiker barrels.

For my food choices I tried not to rely too heavily on one type, to help prevent boredom and burnout.  I am not sure how well I actually did with this. Breakfast will rotate between the following choices: granola with dried milk, oatmeal, probars and Mountain House Skillet Breakfast.  Lunches will be tortilla based: pepperoni, peanut butter, tuna.  I am a little worried that I am lacking enough variety here.  I am keeping my fingers crossed for now. It looks like I will only have 3 commercial freeze dried meals.  The remaining dinners were either dehydrated by me, or dinners that I assembled.  I hope that my dehydrated meals do not go bad before I get to them. Surprisingly for me, there is no Ramen on the menus.  Can that be right???  I am planning  on 2 snacks per day (a.m./p.m.), from the following: Payday bars, M&Ms (multiple flavors), almonds, GORP, Corn Nuts, Pringles,  Cliff bars and a few Goos for the passes at the end.I also threw in some gum, Jolly Ranchers and Root Beer barrels, for in between snack times, and hopefully a quick pick-me-up.

My goal for tomorrow is to try to get the top on the MTR five gallon bucket.  Then get everything mailed out.  My departure date is going to be here quicker than I had imagined.  It has seemed to have just snuck up on me after the past year of planning.  

Tuolumne Meadows Resupply

Red's Meadow Resupply

Muir Trail Ranch

Muir Trail Ranch - Part II