CDT Day 14 (6/1/23)
Miles 336 (Blue line 37.7)- 359.5 (Red line 436.8) (23.5 miles)
Verbatim
I dropped into the Toaster House really briefly this morning. I ate some pie, some good and some bad. There’s this “Hawaiian pie” that’s just horrible. The peach and blackberry pies are good though. The Hawaiian pie seems to be made of prunes and tastes of artificial sweetener. I don’t understand it. It’s seriously gross. Like, unfinishable.
I walked with Sebastian, a middle/young twenties German who is quite nice and very quiet. I also walked with Thirsty Boots who is a 70 year old Vermont native who is a wonderful person and personality. He’s walked over 25,000 miles on these trails and knows many of the more well known thruhikers. He’s from a generation and just loves to walk. Wonderful teller of stories. Borth of the two gave me a few snacks and helped fill out the amount of free food I scrounged from the Toaster House.
I was able to grab some Isadora refrained beans! Beans are the best.. I need to remember to pack them out as often as possible for first day out of town meals. It will be weird getting to Grants where I can resupply from an actual grocery store. I haven’t been able to do that in a long time.
Post Note
Man that pie was nasty. I was a hungry boy from Pie Town to Grants. From the Toaster House hiker box I packed one container of beans, some ramen, some almonds which I ended up not eating and carried for waaaay too long, and filled my cooking pot with 3 slices of pie. I was ready for the 70 more miles into the next grocery store.
Those Isadora beans really are the best. But they’re wet. It’s 16 ounces? 12 ounces? of beans. You can’t afford to pack four of those to eat over the course of four days. But, you can pack one to eat tonight and one to eat for breakfast tomorrow! Managing food resupply weight is a balance. You never want to have too much food. Nor do you want to have not enough. Too much food, as long as it’s not too much food is always preferable to not enough food.
The plastic container of the Isadora was really thick plastic. I remember thinking to myself, “these beans are heavy and this plastic is heavier than the average candy bar wrapper. Is it worth it?”. It was worth it. It’s hard to find Isadora beans though. More beans on more trails please. Beans not beef.