Trail Food - Peanut Butter - its the best
Glacier Bay, camped on an inlet, watching the ebb and flow of the icebergs
Random Inside Passage Fact -
After careful checking and re-checking, my best estimate is that I consumed up to 62 pounds of Peanut Butter on my trip. I will allow for about a 10% error factor, so it could be as little as 56 pounds, but I feel pretty good about that number!! Adams, stir, chunky was my favorite!!
Over the course of 6 months, clearly peanut butter, in large quantities, was my main source of fuel. I would eat it by the spoonful; spread on to dry, often moldy tortillas, or whatever else I had to mix it with.
I can clearly remember one awful rainy day, alone on a beach, tired, hungry, perhaps even a bit depressed. I was nearing another one of my food drops, so my supplies were running low of everything, including PB.
I stood on the beach, rain coming down, orange Anorak keeping somewhat dry and warm(always relative), tearing the plastic bag that had contained my ration of peanut butter inside out trying to get all of it. Never enough, always hungry, I finished every last trace of that nut butter until all that was left was a clear zip lock bag.
That was perhaps midway through the trip. My hunger for calories would continue as I paddled 18-20 miles a day. Schlepping my NDK Explorer and gear out of the water to camp each night and then from camp to the water each morning. Peanut Butter was my friend. Amazingly enough, I still love it to this day, although I eat no where near the quantity now.
Peace -
