Roan High Knob Shelter to Mountain Harbour B&B, Roan Mtn, TN
Who knew I would actually get a chance to complete the Phi Delt '02 trifecta on this trip? But with a day where we crossed Little Hump Mtn and Hump Mtn it was too good to pass up. Not a bad day overall where we made good miles, had some great views, saw a cool barn-turned-shelter at Overmountain Shelter, missed a quick afternoon rainstorm and pushed past our planned stopping place to make it to this B&B. We are set up in our tent on the lawn and got a chance to take a shower too. We also get what is supposed to be a great breakfast in the morning before moving on. Overall a success.
We were talking and thought that some of our dedicated followers might be interested in knowing more about our day to day lives here on the trail so we plan to include posts about various aspects of what we do. Today's topic is my favorite - food.
In general we eat whatever we can get our hands on, like today where we showed up at one shelter to find a cooler full of sodas (some nice trail magic). What we generally plan to eat usually looks like this:
- Breakfast: a granola bar and a smoothie. The smoothies are things that Princess worked hard to make before we left (see some of our old posts) and contain freeze dried fruit, dried whole milk, protein powder and instant pudding. We have a bunch of different flavor combinations and they get made while we pack up the tent in the morning and the pudding is rehydrated by the time we are all packed and ready to go. A nice quick way to get out of camp in the morning without firing up the stove, although oatmeal is always an alternative.
- Morning snack: a candy bar. Snickers, Twix and Zero bars are our favorite choices.
- Lunch: we usually carry a jar of peanut butter premixed with jelly that we spread on tortillas, pitas or some other form of bread. Sometimes we do PB with honey. We also mix in some tuna packets with some jerkey or power bars for some more variety. There is also usually some GORP consumed here (we do cashews, raisins, reeses pieces and candy corn) or some type of dried fruit snack.
- afternoon snack: we usually have a protein drink (Scivation Extend orange flavor) or an electrolyte drink with some Cliff Shot Rocks during the afternoon to keep us going until dinner.
- Dinner: ahhhh, the only meal we cook. We have a bunch of meals we made ahead of time (spaghetti with beef, hamburger soup, mac and cheese, mac and cheese with beef, orange pepper chicken, and chicken curry). Any of these meals get supplemented with a package of ramen noodles for bulk and a package of instant potatoes as a second dinner. For the plain mac and cheese we also throw in some meat (tuna, chicken or sausage) for some extra protein. If we eat a dinner we buy along the way we prefer the ramen, potato, tuna mix with a second dinner of more potatoes. Good stuff. We also add olive oil to each meal for extra fat and calories in the meal.
More episodes to come later.
Stop what you're doin' 'cause I'm about to ruin.
- Snowfox
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