May 21st, Day 64

Distance traveled:
May 20th: 25.29 km
May 21st: 22.1 km

Position: N67°10'21.6 W084°52'50.0

Recently my thoughts have been increasingly gravitating towards food, and why there is so little of it left in my snack bag. Every break, I seem to rummage around in the various plastic bags looking, and if I'm lucky, I'll find bits of chocolate covered nuts, or pieces of licorice. Still, the vast majority of bags seem to be empty, or filled with wrappers.

On long ski days, rationing snacks can be tricky. We eat a Camino chocolate bar a day, so rationing these is simply a matter of will power; other items however, such as the bag of mixed nuts, are harder to mentally divide between five days, four snack breaks a day. Today is day five of our snack rotation, and my snack pack is feeling quite light.

Out in the field, we eat roughly 5000 calories a day and yet some days we still feel hungry. The mornings start with home made granola and powdered milk, along with three cups of hot chocolate. During the day, we eat a variety of nuts, chocolate and dried fruit, and for supper, we have soup followed by a variety of Harvest Foodworks freeze dried dinners.

Eric

[Via Pittarak: Northwest Passage Expedition]