So in Tehachapi we all decided that we would be hiking long days to get to Kennedy Meadows as much as possible. To save weight, we all took a little less food than we should have.
At this point, "Hiker Hunger" and severely kicked in. Hiker hunger hits hikers about 500 miles into their hike. We are all burning about 6000-7000 calories a day. But while on trail, we are not consuming nearly enough calories. The weight of 6000 calories a day would be way too much to carry. So because of this, satisfying our hunger is almost impossible on trail. When we get to town, we cram as many calories into ourselves while we are there.
Rationing is key right now. We could very easily eat every single food item in our pack in one day.
Luckily, today our afternoon nap was located at a trailhead, and Samwise used a technique called "Yogi-ing". There were two cars parked at the trailhead, when each group came back to their car from hiking, Samwise would say "hey, do you have any food we could buy off you". This usually resulted in the hikers pulling a few snacks from their pack and giving them to Samwise.
The hardest part was deciding how to divide the food up between the 3 of us and another hiker who was sitting with us named Castle. Splitting up 3 clementine oranges, fruit snacks, beef jerkey, and a bag of trail mix between 4 hungry hikers is not an easy task.
We got a bunch of grapes from one hiker and passed them around, each taking one grape, until everyone had equal amount but there were 3 left....somehow Castle and Samwise got two of those grapes and Sweet As and I split the 3rd in half.
I don't want to sound like I'm starving, because I'm not. I'm just saying that there is basically no amount of food I can carry right now which would satisfy my Hiker Hunger.
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