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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I usually shoot for about 2,500 calories per day. Right now, I am thinking about 120-140 calories per ounce. Breakfast is a granola with chocolate, chia seeds, freeze-dried fruit, and whole powdered milk (also do a coffee hot chocolate mocha thing that is always a great extra way to get extra calories). Dinner is freeze dried meal, Sakura’s rice and beans, and Mac and cheese (using cheese powder from Amazon). Snacks are mix of trail mix, Snickers, and Ritz cheese cracker sandwiches. I’m debating bringing some flour tortillas and peanut butter to make some trail mix wrap things but haven’t fully landed on it yet.

    Clothing wise, I have a tropic comfort II sunshirt and strider pro shorts. I have a primaloft active fleece (their answer to alpha direct) and decathlon forclaz 100 hoodie for insulation. Also have a pair of Copperfield windpants for the wind. Got a versalite for my rain jacket. Feel pretty solid about my clothing set up for the most part. Only newish piece is the fleece which I haven’t used but one time in North Carolina this past memorial day. Going to bring sunblock for my legs as I’m more comfortable with the shorts over pants (I sweat something fierce and I’m just personally more comfortable with some sunscreen). Hopefully I can get my write up up before you head out just in case.








  • No I’ve been meaning to compile a lighterpack but just haven’t quite gotten the umph to do it (and being fastidious isn’t necessarily my forte lol). My kit is pretty well dialed in, but should probably make one just for the shits and giggles of it as well as a packing list of sorts I guess.

    I am looking forward to it for sure, though altitude hit my partner and me hard in Yosemite last year. We both talked with our PCPs and got diamox to (hopefully) help with the acclimatization. That’ll be included in the write up too just as another data point for others to take into account.