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Good write up, and I'm impressed by his preparations for a first-time backpacker - especially his food dehydration. Most people, especially newbies, will just b

Good write up, and I'm impressed by his preparations for a first-time backpacker - especially his food dehydration. Most people, especially newbies, will just buy prepackaged meals. Although I had to laugh at his "green sand"[1] — beach glass? [1]: https://static-images-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/blog-21-wct/l/2023_04_19_18.jpg https://static-images-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/blog-21...

zxexz 4y ago
Yeah, I’ve done quite a bit of hiking and backpacking. Only got into preparing my own dehydrated meals in the last year or so, before that it was always a combination of wet food and some prepackaged meals. I’m definitely impressed with the author of this article.
- grogenaut 4y ago
  While I hiked a lot as a kid, philmont, etc, I did a section of the wonderland back in 2013. My buddy is gluten intolerant. My hobbies is hobbies. While it was slightly annoying and ironic to make my own dehydrated food, where you cook the dried macaroni, then dry it back out only to add it back to hot water), it was fun and easy and the food was way better than the pre-packaged. Especially if you have a food dehydrator already which many people do. makes amazing apple chips when you use a meat slicer to cut the apples. I had tried gluten free pre-packaged but it was terribad... And even higher in sodium than the already 90% daily value per meal pre-pacakged dehydrated stuff. I made chili mac, chili, spaghetti. And a lot of jerkey, when you make the jerkey the night before the height you can get away with a lot. The turkey jerkey was delicious.
eesmith 4y ago
The author is a first-time thru-hiker, not first-time backpacker. "I have done a lot of hiking, and cool trips, but never thru-hiking." and "upgrading all of my gear" indicate previous experience backpacking. The line "I remember buying cascade hiking poles from Costco, and it breaking in the middle of hiking of Peru" may been an event which occurred after this hike, but a search of the site finds https://www.dquach.com/2023/04/05/personal-newsletter-2023-q1/ https://www.dquach.com/2023/04/05/personal-newsletter-2023-q... with "Back in 2015 we were eating at Astrid y Gaston in Lima, Peru ... I was going to hike the W, which was a 5 day hike in Patagonia Chile about 4 days later", further confirming previous backpacking experience.
- brailsafe 4y ago
  From both articles, I did get "I'll just use my tech money" and "go to easter island" or "replace literally all of my gear just for this trip" vibes, which is a certain kind of turnoff, but he is at least spending it and doing the trips which is admittedly something I haven't done yet.
once_inc 4y ago
My kids had a blast when we were in the Azores last summer digging through the volcanic sand beach for these green, orange, and red stones. They aren't found near the beach where we live, and we took a few larger ones back home. This green specimen is Olivine, which is indeed quite common, but not ubiquitously everywhere.

zxexz 4y ago

Yeah, I’ve done quite a bit of hiking and backpacking. Only got into preparing my own dehydrated meals in the last year or so, before that it was always a combination of wet food and some prepackaged meals. I’m definitely impressed with the author of this article.

grogenaut 4y ago
While I hiked a lot as a kid, philmont, etc, I did a section of the wonderland back in 2013. My buddy is gluten intolerant. My hobbies is hobbies. While it was slightly annoying and ironic to make my own dehydrated food, where you cook the dried macaroni, then dry it back out only to add it back to hot water), it was fun and easy and the food was way better than the pre-packaged. Especially if you have a food dehydrator already which many people do. makes amazing apple chips when you use a meat slicer to cut the apples. I had tried gluten free pre-packaged but it was terribad... And even higher in sodium than the already 90% daily value per meal pre-pacakged dehydrated stuff. I made chili mac, chili, spaghetti. And a lot of jerkey, when you make the jerkey the night before the height you can get away with a lot. The turkey jerkey was delicious.

eesmith 4y ago

The author is a first-time thru-hiker, not first-time backpacker. "I have done a lot of hiking, and cool trips, but never thru-hiking." and "upgrading all of my gear" indicate previous experience backpacking. The line "I remember buying cascade hiking poles from Costco, and it breaking in the middle of hiking of Peru" may been an event which occurred after this hike, but a search of the site finds https://www.dquach.com/2023/04/05/personal-newsletter-2023-q1/ https://www.dquach.com/2023/04/05/personal-newsletter-2023-q... with "Back in 2015 we were eating at Astrid y Gaston in Lima, Peru ... I was going to hike the W, which was a 5 day hike in Patagonia Chile about 4 days later", further confirming previous backpacking experience.

brailsafe 4y ago
From both articles, I did get "I'll just use my tech money" and "go to easter island" or "replace literally all of my gear just for this trip" vibes, which is a certain kind of turnoff, but he is at least spending it and doing the trips which is admittedly something I haven't done yet.

once_inc 4y ago

My kids had a blast when we were in the Azores last summer digging through the volcanic sand beach for these green, orange, and red stones. They aren't found near the beach where we live, and we took a few larger ones back home. This green specimen is Olivine, which is indeed quite common, but not ubiquitously everywhere.