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I did this hike with some friends years ago. It can be wet, but it's a beautiful hike. You can camp on the beach and make fires every night. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a through hike with lots of terrain you can't access except by foot.
6 days for 75km? I suppose this guy must've really been enjoying himself along the way. Don't think you need to precook stuff like quinoa. Can just cook it on an ethanol hobo oven pretty quick.
6 days for 75km? I suppose this guy must've really been enjoying himself along the way. Don't think you need to precook stuff like quinoa. Can just cook it on an ethanol hobo oven pretty quick.
I did this hike with some friends years ago. It can be wet, but it's a beautiful hike. You can camp on the beach and make fires every night. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a through hike with lots of terrain you can't access except by foot.
LOL, it started raining about 20 minutes after we left Bamfield and didn't stop the whole time.
> I was kind of just puzzled like, what makes me look like a pilot? Just kind of weird what people assume of you.
I enjoyed this conversational style through the thing. Nice one. Cool pictures!
I also dehydrate meals for preparation and have a few suggestions: in the months prior cook extra vegetarian meals like dahls and curries to dehydrate, portion, and freeze until the hike; dehydrate canned chicken for protein; dehydrate banana slices (you don't need to soak them in lemon juice/citrate prior); and try the Kirkland brand shredded dehydrated potatoes.
While I wouldn't call it a "death hike", I've had several broken bones and been involved in a number of rescues over the years, and yet I still remember the fright from almost losing multiple fingers crossing a river in a cable car when a group up ahead thought they'd pull the cable to help us... it's a rather unique trail with quite a variety of uncommon points of interest.
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...
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.
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.
6 days for 75km? I suppose this guy must've really been enjoying himself along the way. Don't think you need to precook stuff like quinoa. Can just cook it on an ethanol hobo oven pretty quick.