Hiking - What To Bring

[2008]

[Attendee]

We wanna go backpacking for 2 days.

[Aajonus]

Where?

[Attendee]

Sierras.

[Aajonus]

Okay. Not so hot. I didn't know if you're going down to the Andes. Sierras aren't that hot, so the oxygen level's gonna be okay.

When I went hiking in Hawaii, I backpacked and hiked all of the island all, the way down to green sands They actually have black/green sand, and that's the lowest point in America south and I hiked there all the way up to YPO valley.

So, what I took was, I had a, uh, one of those one and a half liter Lexan containers with 2/3 butter and 1/3 honey, even when it got fermented near my 10th day of hiking backpacking, and even though it was fermented, it was perfect. And whenever I came to a store I had meat.

[Attendee]

But if we were to go out 10 days without having a resupply, like if we just had to carry with us for 10 days?

[Aajonus]

Like I say, butter and honey is your best thing to take.

[Attendee]

That's your main food?

[Aajonus]

Well, I'd still take some cheese.

[Attendee]

So, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks on the trail, everything you say just butter, honey and cheese?

[Aajonus]

You could take nuts, seeds. Seeds are a little bit better. Pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds are good nutrients, but you have to eat them with the honey and butter, and I would take an egg, at least one egg a day.

So. let's say you're going 10 days, that's at least 10 eggs for each person make juice.

[Attendee]

We can't really make juice.

[Aajonus]

No, you don't eat juice. You're gonna have to drink water here and there where you can find it.

[Attendee]

You're not recommending meat?

[Aajonus]

Well, if they'll eat high meat, that's great.

[Attendee]

Can you eat high meat the whole time?

[Aajonus]

Oh, absolutely. I have one guy that eats two pounds of high meat a day. He doesn't eat any fresh.