Food for long hikes (Lapland clave)

Dried apricots, peaches and prunes?
With all that susage, ham, salami and reindeer meet you may not need to
bring as much toilet paper.
I though fruit soup was an old scandahovian dish, at least in Minnesota they
claim it was?
"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I thought I'd share some of my experience/inexperience about food supplies
when hiking in the mountains.
I know there are many of you that have vast experience with this and I
just
thought that we might exchange ideas.
One could also see this post as a follow up on the "Lapland clave 2004
maps"
thread where I shared my view on camping gear with Mike Connor.

In my early days of hiking in the mountains I always walked to my
destination, something which has colored my choice in food supplies.
Here goes (read this as an idea of what to bring):

Mashed potatoe powder
Fast rice
Fast makaroni
Noodles (perhaps instead of makaroni)
(All these you can put in plastic bags instead of the bulky emballage
they're sold in)
Hard bread (will stay edible longer than soft bread)
Soft bread (for the first couple of days)
Canned sausages
Canned ham
Bacon (Will stay fresh for two days and will make a nice meal together
with
the makaroni)
Cup-a-Soup
Dried reindeer meat
Cheese or Caviar on tube
Salami
Three bags of freeze dried food (as a reserve when unable to catch fish)
Coffee
Chocolate milk powder
Tea
Mixable Juice
Red onions
Paprika (capsicum)
Leek
A fresh lemon
Salt
Sugar
Dill seeds
Black pepper
Seasoned pepper (lemon, garlic)
A small bottle of olive oil
Chocolate bars
Salt licorice
Whiskey

Also remember to bring Aluminum foil for the fish.

A helicopter will add to the possibility of carrying more liquid stuff
(read: heavy stuff).
As this is the case with the Lapland clave (i.e. we don't have to walk
anything with our packing)

Beer
Wine

Any more ideas? Add to this list personal favorites.
When it comes to the Lapland Clave we will be buying this stuff in the
last
small community that we pass on our way up to the helicopter.

/ Roger
Daytime engineer
Lifetime fly fisherman
If you feel like it, visit http://www.imsoc.se/angler/ for info on fly
fishing in northern Sweden, Lapland,
or visit http://www.imsoc.se/ffgallery/ , the fly fishermen's gallery.

"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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Sounds like quite an expedition! Wish I could be there. Remembering some of
my experiences . . .

Aluminum foil is one of the best things to take - it's versatile as hell.
Great for wrapping fish for cooking. But there's a good bit of heavy stuff
there - cheese, canned ham, ham, bacon, salami, canned sausages, etc. Sounds
like it would be good to eat, and if you don't have to carry it very far, or
if you have horses or helicopters or something to carry it, I guess it's not
much of a problem. But in my view, by the time you carry all that stuff and
the utensils and fuel to cook it you'll be too worn out to do much fishing.
The materials you use to wrap all that meat will also make a hell of a
bundle of very aromatic garbage. Do you have bears?

My personal preference is to focus on high-carbohydrate, light-weight stuff
that will satisfy energy requirements without adding lots of weight. I like
to minimize the water, because I can always find water anywhere I'm fishing,
and by either boiling it or adding iodine I can make the water potable.
Dried fruit, dried vegetable soups, dried meat (jerky), dehydrated meals
(somewhat expensive, but can be good). Maybe some chili pepper and other dry
spices, and aluminum foil to wrap the fish in for cooking.

I happen not to like ramen noodles - not much substance, and lots of salt to
make you think you're getting something to eat. It's really more of a salty
snack much more suitable for a winter snack at home.

That will free up capacity for whiskey or aquavit. Enough of that and you
won't miss the culinary deficiencies!

Bob

"Bob Patton" rwpmailatcharterdotnet wrote in message
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"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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Sounds like quite an expedition! Wish I could be there. Remembering some
of
my experiences . . .

Aluminum foil is one of the best things to take - it's versatile as hell.
Great for wrapping fish for cooking. But there's a good bit of heavy stuff
there - cheese, canned ham, ham, bacon, salami, canned sausages, etc.

Not really. The canned ham and canned sausages sausages are the two heavy
ones but as long as you start by eating those (if walking to your
destination) the rest won't weigh that much. The cheese is in a tube and the
bacon is a flat package with thin slices (a portion) and so is the salami.

Sounds
like it would be good to eat, and if you don't have to carry it very far,
or
if you have horses or helicopters or something to carry it, I guess it's
not
much of a problem. But in my view, by the time you carry all that stuff
and
the utensils and fuel to cook it you'll be too worn out to do much
fishing.
The materials you use to wrap all that meat will also make a hell of a
bundle of very aromatic garbage. Do you have bears?

Yes, but you'll be very lucky if you get to see one.

My personal preference is to focus on high-carbohydrate, light-weight
stuff
that will satisfy energy requirements without adding lots of weight. I
like
to minimize the water, because I can always find water anywhere I'm
fishing,
and by either boiling it or adding iodine I can make the water potable.

Potable??? As in drinkable??? Heh, heh, heh.
There is probably no water better than the water in the area that we're
going to fish during the Lapland clave.
The spring water found there is close to sterile at less than 4 degrees
Celsius with little minerals.
The water is so good that it actually adds to the experience of being there.

Dried fruit, dried vegetable soups, dried meat (jerky), dehydrated meals
(somewhat expensive, but can be good). Maybe some chili pepper and other
dry
spices, and aluminum foil to wrap the fish in for cooking.

Dried fruit, good idea. Have to try that.

I happen not to like ramen noodles - not much substance, and lots of salt
to
make you think you're getting something to eat. It's really more of a
salty
snack much more suitable for a winter snack at home.

That will free up capacity for whiskey or aquavit. Enough of that and you
won't miss the culinary deficiencies!

Yep, we're on the same wavelength there.

/Roger

"Roger Ohlund" wrote in message
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That will free up capacity for whiskey or aquavit. Enough of that and
you
won't miss the culinary deficiencies!

Yep, we're on the same wavelength there.

/Roger

Hope to hike and fish with you sometime, Roger.
Bob

"B J Conner" wrote in message
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Dried apricots, peaches and prunes?
With all that susage, ham, salami and reindeer meet you may not need to
bring as much toilet paper.
I though fruit soup was an old scandahovian dish, at least in Minnesota
they
claim it was?

Yeah, I suppose it is!
And many of the available Cup-a-Soups are just that kind of soup.

/Roger