Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: Solo Tripping :: Solo food quantity
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billconner |
I did eat less than planned on my solo. |
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nojobro |
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LindenTree3 |
I eat more when I solo. If I am not solo it is just me and my wife, we have no kids and do not make a social event when eating in the BW. If I am paddling with her she helps pull the weight/paddling. When I'm solo it is just me, and my short fat canoe doing all the work alone. Therefore I burn more calories when going solo. Good Luck |
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nojobro |
I have my dog's food (13 cups) plus all of mine (minus a few small oranges and apples, and tortillas, that I'll buy just before) and the pail is going to be completely full. I have mostly dehydrated and freeze dried meals that I made myself. Is this a lot? Trip is 7 days/6 nights. The pail weighed 15 pounds. My husband said 2 pounds a day sounded good. That includes the dog food, so mine is less. I did have more in there; decided I did not need all the deserts. I had one for each day. I don't even do that in regular life. Now I have two for special days. |
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boonie |
I don't know how much the dog food weighs or what kind of food you are taking, but for comparison mine weighed about 15 lbs. (about 1.2 lbs. per day) in the Ursack for 12 days last fall (actually 11 breakfasts and dinners, and 12 lunches and snacks). My breakfasts are cold cereal and dinners are dehydrated. Lunches are ProBars, snacks are primarily nuts (very calorie dense @ 175 calories per oz.). It comes to about 2200 - 2400 calories a day. Go with what you are comfortable with the first trip, then adjust on future trips. Many of us have found we don't eat as much as we expect, which I attribute partly to the fact there's no social context. It becomes a "food is fuel" thing rather than a focal point of a social group. |
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TomT |
I took my dog in 2013 on a solo and she didn't eat half of what I brought for her. I had to mix in a bit of my own food with hers to get her going. She just didn't have an appetite. |