Preparing to be ALONE (part 2 of 14) - Food For 7 Day Canoe Camping
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Date: 2021-05-17
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John
I should send you my breakdown canoe for your trip. Finalizing the details. 8 ft long x 2 ft beam (6x2 foot keel) x 21- draft. Calculations 300# carry with ONLY 4 1/2- waterline, and 16 1/2- freeboard. Supercompacts breakdown canoe/kayak components into two 3- dia. x 24- plastic tubes w/caps (2 1/4# each. 9x9 ft tyvek/mylar tarp/tent/hammock/canoe skin (1#. 4x6 ft MYOG tyvek/double air bubble insulate mylar/velcro sewn bivy bag (sleeping bivy/mattress pad as folded 2x6, insulated strong canoe keel flooring as 4x6 or folded) 0 weight only rolled up size. Two 50 gallon black garbage bags (bow/stern compartments, or body poncho bags, or water floating food container bags, mere ounces. Estimated total weight 6#. All easily carried in backpack.
With your fresh/cold food, are you bringing ziplock bag and mesh storage bag, and hang underwater from canoe in cold Canadian waters? Or toss into large submerged, semi-floating garbage bag (above? Could do same for all watertight food storage products (no bear hangs) and all smells will be bag, water, and critter proofed. Doing this, you can bring along firstly-chilled/frozen bacon, steak, steak cubes, butter, eggs, and they would all keep chill-refrigerated. Putting used salmon cans in ziplock cooking garbage underwater also protects against critter intrusions. Rub down the egg shells with olive oil before leaving, and this will help prevent any decay, and also waterproofs eggs in a water dunk. Canned salmon and mackerel best options (higher canned food calories than any other canned store product, other than raw beef (chicken and tuna worthless for calories per volume, same for worthless calories in sardines/herring tins.
Have a great trip!
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I should send you my breakdown canoe for your trip. Finalizing the details. 8 ft long x 2 ft beam (6x2 foot keel) x 21- draft. Calculations 300# carry with ONLY 4 1/2- waterline, and 16 1/2- freeboard. Supercompacts breakdown canoe/kayak components into two 3- dia. x 24- plastic tubes w/caps (2 1/4# each. 9x9 ft tyvek/mylar tarp/tent/hammock/canoe skin (1#. 4x6 ft MYOG tyvek/double air bubble insulate mylar/velcro sewn bivy bag (sleeping bivy/mattress pad as folded 2x6, insulated strong canoe keel flooring as 4x6 or folded) 0 weight only rolled up size. Two 50 gallon black garbage bags (bow/stern compartments, or body poncho bags, or water floating food container bags, mere ounces. Estimated total weight 6#. All easily carried in backpack.
With your fresh/cold food, are you bringing ziplock bag and mesh storage bag, and hang underwater from canoe in cold Canadian waters? Or toss into large submerged, semi-floating garbage bag (above? Could do same for all watertight food storage products (no bear hangs) and all smells will be bag, water, and critter proofed. Doing this, you can bring along firstly-chilled/frozen bacon, steak, steak cubes, butter, eggs, and they would all keep chill-refrigerated. Putting used salmon cans in ziplock cooking garbage underwater also protects against critter intrusions. Rub down the egg shells with olive oil before leaving, and this will help prevent any decay, and also waterproofs eggs in a water dunk. Canned salmon and mackerel best options (higher canned food calories than any other canned store product, other than raw beef (chicken and tuna worthless for calories per volume, same for worthless calories in sardines/herring tins.
Have a great trip!
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John
the thing that will press upon you the most is the lack of food. It's depressing, man. It really helps your mood a lot if your belly is full of satisfying food, (enough carbs and fat) When you know that you are succeeding at not just feeding yourself adequately, but also preserving a lot of food for the winter, you'll find that thoughts of what you'll do with the half million - will comfort you (a lot. :-)
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the thing that will press upon you the most is the lack of food. It's depressing, man. It really helps your mood a lot if your belly is full of satisfying food, (enough carbs and fat) When you know that you are succeeding at not just feeding yourself adequately, but also preserving a lot of food for the winter, you'll find that thoughts of what you'll do with the half million - will comfort you (a lot. :-)
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John
you go to a lot more trouble than I ever do, for a fact. I hate every lb and every cubic inch that I have to lug around, so I limit the food to 1. 5 lbs per day. Yes, I lose bodyweight by so doing, but unless it were to be a one month+ expedition, it would not matter.
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you go to a lot more trouble than I ever do, for a fact. I hate every lb and every cubic inch that I have to lug around, so I limit the food to 1. 5 lbs per day. Yes, I lose bodyweight by so doing, but unless it were to be a one month+ expedition, it would not matter.
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Caringan
I often pack some MRE's for longer trips. They are usually compact and lightweight and they contain loads of calories (and moste of the time, they taste pretty good. -BUT- they are not cheap, so there is a downside to them.
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I often pack some MRE's for longer trips. They are usually compact and lightweight and they contain loads of calories (and moste of the time, they taste pretty good. -BUT- they are not cheap, so there is a downside to them.
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Muskrat
I've never planned a 7-day expedition. It's god to see your preps. I see from other comments that you're getting one of those plastic egg carriers, so I won't go into that here. Looking forward to your next video!
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I've never planned a 7-day expedition. It's god to see your preps. I see from other comments that you're getting one of those plastic egg carriers, so I won't go into that here. Looking forward to your next video!
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Mike
Very nice! Good solid food plan. Looking forward to seeing the trip unfold. We always bring eggs. And we usually get those hard plastic yellow egg carriers. They're great. And cheap. Lol.
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Very nice! Good solid food plan. Looking forward to seeing the trip unfold. We always bring eggs. And we usually get those hard plastic yellow egg carriers. They're great. And cheap. Lol.
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John
I've always just taken almond butter, instant oatmeal, Tang, powdered gatorade and teriyaki jerky. and if you are foraging, salt, spices and a bit of honey are a big help
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I've always just taken almond butter, instant oatmeal, Tang, powdered gatorade and teriyaki jerky. and if you are foraging, salt, spices and a bit of honey are a big help
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