cliff bars, trail mix...love 'em but they are darn heavy. anyone have any other alternative recommendations?

thanks
J

Cheetos

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Tater Tots.......!

I second Cheetos (lived on 'em for three days) and when going up hot switchbacks, Fruit Rolls are really nice.

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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.

Ugh, Clif bars, heavier in the stomach!

I eat trail mix, chips, nuts, just about anything but bars. Tho I do like a Luna bar once in a while. Some flavors of Odwalla are okay. Chocolate bars, I'm totally there...

Hershey bars, peanut butter, and flatbread. I could subsist on these three things if need be.

For short intervals, a person really only needs calories (not a well balanced fruits-vegetable-protein-grain-fiber meal). Strictly speaking, the best source of calories is fat. If you want a condensed food source consider very high fat content foods. Probably also useful for starting a survival fire. (exception during extreme exercise, fat is hard to absorb and may cause nausea or diarrhea.)

Water is quite heavy and usually available, so any food with high water content is unnecessarily heavy-- carry very dry or powdered "snacks" if possible.

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For short intervals, a person really only needs calories (not a well balanced fruits-vegetable-protein-grain-fiber meal). Strictly speaking, the best source of calories is fat. If you want a condensed food source consider very high fat content foods. Probably also useful for starting a survival fire. (exception during extreme exercise, fat is hard to absorb and may cause nausea or diarrhea.)

Water is quite heavy and usually available, so any food with high water content is unnecessarily heavy-- carry very dry or powdered "snacks" if possible.

Peanut butter is calorie dense. Not only that, but it's dense period. Maybe there's a little bit of air from it getting turned into a paste, but it's certainly more dense than loose peanuts with all the little spaces. I've heard of a lot of backpackers packing peanut butter because it puts a lot of calories into a given volume - perfect for efficient use of a bear canister. I brought along a few of those single-serve JIF peanut butter cups and just ate one straight up as part of my breakfast. I don't think I could have consumed more than one at a time without getting sick though.

I also packed olive oil the time I went backpacking. I thought I was going to use it with those Lipton/Knorr pasta sides, but ended up doing nothing with them. I was talking to some fellow campers over at LYV, and they said olive oil can make for some great backcountry cooking, but he oil fumes might also attract bears.

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I also packed olive oil the time I went backpacking. I thought I was going to use it with those Lipton/Knorr pasta sides, but ended up doing nothing with them. I was talking to some fellow campers over at LYV, and they said olive oil can make for some great backcountry cooking, but he oil fumes might also attract bears.

Olive oil would be useful for starting a campfire.

Addendum: the Lipton/Knorr pasta sides go great with Green Giant vegetables. Since the GG packets are hermetically sealed, the contents will stay good for several days after they thaw. (Note: do not take along any of the newer microwaveable packets since they are fabricated from a different plastic which should not be immersed in boiling water.)

Cheetos, yes but they could definitley turn into, cheese-dust in a packed bear can... trail mix, packable but pretty heavy...hershey bars and peanut butter...hot mess..
fat's...like chick-on's can with rice krispies treats hmmm... not a bad idea...how about jerky?? Olive oil wtf...

thanks y'all. i'm gonna go with some nuts and rice krispy treats...

I like Nature Valley Nut Crunch bars. At 1.2-oz they are not all that heavy. There is one heavy bar I really like but can only find it at the store in Lee Vining. REI does not carry it. I think it's a Cliff bar in the apricot flavor. Due to its weight I eat it on the first day out.

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I like Nature Valley Nut Crunch bars. At 1.2-oz they are not all that heavy. There is one heavy bar I really like but can only find it at the store in Lee Vining. .

Oh, good. Now I know where I can ship the 11 boxes of Nature Valley bars that I thought I would like forever.....

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The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.

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I like Nature Valley Nut Crunch bars. At 1.2-oz they are not all that heavy. There is one heavy bar I really like but can only find it at the store in Lee Vining. .

Oh, good. Now I know where I can ship the 11 boxes of Nature Valley bars that I thought I would like forever.....

Eleven boxes of stale Nut Crunch. Yum!

What about Cheez Its?

Or some Cheez Doodles or Cheez Waffies?

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Or some Cheez Doodles or Cheez Waffies?

Cheetos are the only lightweight high calorie good tasting snack food in existence.

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What you do is gorge yourself a day or two prior to your trip.
It's the same principle as Super Saturating yourself on a water stop.
Normally a day or two ahead I eat a box of Twinkies.. then
at the trailhead I eat another box. Saves a lot of weight and then
I don't need to carry any food, a bear can, a stove, heavy fuel, pots, pans, utensils...
It's called fast packing. I do require a metal shovel though so it is offest a bit..

Half fun out der,

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I posted about a trail snack, of sorts, previously...

http://yosemitenews.info/forum/read.php?3,31721,31758#msg-31758

Though I don't think I'll follow your theory and drink a bottle of gin the day before, and another bottle at the trailhead.

Gin...
That you drink on your way up the cables... while waiting...

It's April 1st.... Thought James would get a kick outta the theory...

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What you do is gorge yourself a day or two prior to your trip.
It's the same principle as Super Saturating yourself on a water stop.
Normally a day or two ahead I eat a box of Twinkies.. then
at the trailhead I eat another box. Saves a lot of weight and then
I don't need to carry any food, a bear can, a stove, heavy fuel, pots, pans, utensils...
It's called fast packing. I do require a metal shovel though so it is offest a bit..

Half fun out der,

Yeah 2 boxes of twinkies...you better pack out your TP bro!

teehee

You could just go with the TB:

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You could just go with the TB:

And don't forget the http://www.ske-art.com/skestuff9/B000TZ6ZTG

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You could just go with the TB:

These guys went to an extreme. I met them on the way up, and was wondering what they were doing with a "big aluminum can". This photo they took themselves. I took my own pictures, and I think I've shown a few of them before.

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cliff bars, trail mix...love 'em but they are darn heavy. anyone have any other alternative recommendations?

Scorpion-on-a-stick is always a good source of protein (use the sticks as kindling or, alternatively, string the little buggers on your trekking poles to save weight):





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The blue ones taste like Blue Hawaiian drinks,---really!