Everyone needs their own JMT 2012 gear list

12-14 days total looks like 6-7 from MTR to Whitney Portal. Bare Boxer 101 is less than 1/2 the size I need for that time & distance.

If you have a secret plan, I respect that. If you want all your food in the bear can overnight then it may be impossible (unless you just pack it full of peanut butter!)

In 2010 I met two friends at Kearsarge Pass . . . and at that point the can was pretty empty, so your right . . . MTR to the Portal is a little to far for the 101, but I can fit about 5 or 6 days of food in the BB 101.

Typical day on the trail for me is an energy bar in the morning, another around 11 with some gatorade, a GU and another gatorade around 2, another bar in the late afternoon, then dinner. I'll mix a few other things in if I get hungry or feel low on energy, but I keep it pretty simple. I always have corn nuts and snickers too.

Two food pics from Red's Meadow and trailer at VVR:

. . . I like the idea of packing it full of peanut butter . . . or maybe just fill it with corn nuts and snickers.

:)

Since you took the bait… values from the Internet:

Bare Boxer 101: 275 cubic inches =4.506 liters
Peanut Butter specific gravity: 1.25 = 1250 g/l
Mass of Bare Boxer full of peanut butter: 5630 g
Calories/ 100 grams of peanut butter: 588 = 5.88 cal/g

Calories in Bare Boxer full of peanut butter: 33,100

Using 2500 calorie/day ration, that gives 13 days.

"Using 2500 calorie/day ration, that gives 13 days."

Very impressive. However, could you eat only peanut butter for 13 days? I think not.

The very most peanut butter that I can eat is about 20% of my total diet.

–B.G.–

I could do the entire trail without a resupply!

:)

I think we should start a BPL betting pool on how many days Joseph would last with his peanut butter only trail quest. I bet 3 days maximum and there would be the happiest marmots and pikas in all of the sierras!
:}

I knew a guy that lived off of peanut butter for ten or so days. I was not able to be certain he was eating other foods, but he definitely was eating lots of peanut butter.

I could not do it. Why not mix up peanut butter and Nutella? They are similar pastes of comparable nutritional value.

I think you could lure in marmots with peanut butter and wack em over the head. Survive off marmot stew the whole trip! Now that I think about it, doesn't the john muir trail go through national forests? I wonder what marmots taste like…

Marmots must be in the Ground Hog family. A recipe for ground hog can be found in the Joy of Cooking.

BTW I found that the thin "Shepherd Hook' tents stakes worked best in the rocky soil areas of the JMT.

>"I knew a guy that lived off of peanut butter for ten or so days."

I knew grad students who lived off of peanut butter and Top Ramen for 8 years!

But you're right about the 3 days. I knew two climber types who read labels and concluded the lightest, cheapest calories were in the form of Squeeze Parkay margarine and used that as 2/3 of their intake. They toughed it out for 3 days and then were eyeing even my no-cook items (pumpernickel, triscuits, salami, granola) pretty intently.

Updated my list . . . I think this is pretty much final.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumeU1bgt2ljdDNTalBack9tLWFrRnQ4cGMxYzFsS3c#gid=0

Added a new column with some stuff i'm on the fence about.

"I knew grad students who lived off of peanut butter and Top Ramen for 8 years!"

To many college students, those represent two of the major food groups.

–B.G.–

Just got my email confirmation from Yosemite . . . JMT 2012 begins on September 17th!

JMT again this year . . . last 2 weeks of August ending around Labor Day.

Changes from last year include SoloMid instead of tarp, heavier but more comfortable pad, and the Marmot Mica instead of my Houdini and plastic poncho . . . also added the z-packs pants . . . everything else is about the same.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumeU1bgt2ljdDNTalBack9tLWFrRnQ4cGMxYzFsS3c#gid=0

and here is the general plan . . . this is about the same as previous years . . . maybe zero day at VVR or MTR, but about 12-13 days hiking . . .

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AumeU1bgt2ljdDZ0WGlfRkZNWnRHN1RVTXpRSlVQdmc#gid=0

I'm curious about what you are carrying in Misc Items, Ziploc 3 (first aid, repair, emergency) at 1.2oz?

Cuben Fiber tape
Leukotape
Whistle
Anti-diarrhea
Motrin
Benadryl
Butterfly srtrips
Crazy glue
Needle, thread, and safety pin
Therm-a-rest repair kit
Platty patch

. . . also have some duct tape on my trekking pole

Can you really get by on 16 ounces of food per day? I'd be starved unless you have some very calorie dense per pound food that you carry.

16 oz is what I take and about 2k calories per day. For a 14 day JMT I would be getting hungry about day 7 or 8 and mileage may start to suffer a bit.

I went two weeks on the PCT eating nothing but Kendal Mint cakes, beef jerky, and Hersey Tropical bars due to a mixup with my food box. Not the best diet but I was thirty years younger then and much more resilient.

Apart from the jerky, how many have had the mint cakes or tropical bars? Unfortunately, I actually do know what a marmot tastes like….along with some other easily dispatched game. I would have paid dearly for some seasoning.

"how many have had the mint cakes or tropical bars?"

That's a blast from the past. I remember tropical chocolate bars, from back in the early 70's maybe?

I remember seeing Tropical Chocolate on the store shelves into the 1980's.

I keep looking for a suitable substitute now. There is lots of dark chocolate available, but it all seems to melt on a warm day.

–B.G.–

Did a similar itinerary two weeks later in 2009. I would bring a warmer sleeping bag or quilt unless you are a warm sleeper. Whitney summit will be a cold night. I'll be there at the same time as you this year and I'm bring a 20F quilt.will be overkill at lower elev. but not for higher camps.