As promised, here are recipes for the food we carried on the Long Trail. GENERAL INFORMATION I purchased most of the ingredients for these recipes from the Brattleboro Food Coop, which runs a fabulous bulk department of grains, legumes, nuts, dried fruits, seeds and spices. I bought shelf-stable cheese tortellini, and prepackaged foods like pasta […]
Snow in December!
Snow in December! To have both sunshine and snow in December is a gift. On Monday, I woke to the town plow rumbling down my road: A few inches had fallen, and it was still coming down. This was a tremendous gift after last winter’s dearth of snow and this past summer’s drought. We need […]
Make Affirmations Rather than Resolutions!
This is the time of year I advocate for affirmations rather than resolutions. I used to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the accepted and conventional manner. I’d stay up till midnight, fortify my resolve with champagne, and vow to live cleaner, work harder, and sustain a calm, orderly, life. I’d make these resolutions at midnight, […]
The Food We Carried
Most of our planning was about the food we carried. Jan nixed my idea to eat beans and rice three times a day. “We need variety,” she said. “And texture.” “But none of those instant backpacking meals,” I said. “No way!” Jan agreed. While backpacking in the White Mountains earlier that summer, I’d witnessed the […]
Living Outdoors
Hiking the Long Trail meant living outdoors for twenty-five days. During that time, we had rain, thunder, heat, humidity and frost. We slept inside shelters, in our tent or under the stars, and we cooked, dined and bathed out-of-doors. We spent all day every day hiking, averaging eleven miles a day and eleven hours on […]
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