Alright! Let's talk food! In 2018 I had a pretty dialed in food plan. This worked pretty well for us, but I had some lessons I took away. Some specific to the GDT and some lessons more general about long hiking. Lessons I can eat a pretty low variety of food for a long time … Continue reading GDT 2021 Food
We're in the final stretch of prepping for the GDT with Toothless and this is probably the most stressed I have been about any trip (other than that one PCT section where I was still printing maps at midnight before we left but we don't talk about that trip). Regardless of how much there is … Continue reading GDT Prep: Final Stretch…
We are halfway through the trail now, so now is probably a good time to reflect on how it's been so far. Itinerary We planned our itinerary in a bit of detail and it has been pretty accurate so far. We have been trying to keep to our permits so we have made sure to … Continue reading GDT Reflection: Mid Point
We have finally finalized our meal plans (as much as we can anyways), so I can stop teasing with posts about us buying food and give more details on what we actually plan on eating. Calories and Nutrition Natasha and I don't need a lot of calories hiking usually. We have planned for 3600 calories … Continue reading GDT Food and Meal Planning
Background We are planning to do the Great Divide Trail this summer and wanted to take advantage of the long weekend to do a quick shakedown trip. The main things we were testing out on this hike were: (1) a new sleep system (MYOG double quilt and Exped Synmat HL Duo); (2) Andrew Skurka's recipes … Continue reading Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux – Trip Summary
We are heading out this weekend to go hiking for a few days. Since we have all of our food earmarked for the GDT, we needed to pick up food. We are using the weekend to test out some new recipes. Some items are just for the weekend, but we bought extra for the GDT … Continue reading GDT Food Haul + Long Weekend Food Shopping
We made off a bit better than last weekend.. 88 Snickers bars 60 Hershey's almond bars Various baby food pouches All either on sale or for the best deal we can find. We are learning! Combine Superstore flyer sales, order online and riding our bikes to the "click and collect" pickup. The only way to … Continue reading Weekly GDT food inventory haul
Backpacks & Bike Racks 