Sunday, July 13, 2014

And still so much to do

I had a very productive day today -- in large part because I realized last night that I need to send out my two resupply tubs this coming Saturday. Yikes!! So I needed to firm up my food plans for the five days in the Red's Meadow resupply and the six days in the Muir Trail Ranch resupply. It took a couple of hours, but I've got all but three dinners figured out. I'm going to screw around with a couple of ramen-based dinner recipes tomorrow, and if those work then I'll use them. Otherwise, I'll just fall back on a few freeze-dried meals from REI. And speaking of meals, I tried another one tonight that included orzo, dried tomatoes, parmesan and tuna and it was DELICIOUS. Like, really really yummy. I'll have to save it for nights when I've got a "fresh" supply so the cheese is an option, but I'm excited about it.

Tomorrow I have a monster shopping trip planned to buy all of my breakfasts/lunches/dinners/snacks for those 11 days. I'll worry about the rest of the days later (I still have a few weeks). I also need to buy two tubs to mail the resupplies, and figure out what other stuff needs to go in them -- batteries, toilet paper, sunscreen ad toothpaste, socks and underwear, etc. No sweat.

In addition to doing a bunch of meal planning today, I got out most of my equipment and piled it all in the living room. I'm pretty well set! Still to do:

-Thin out the first-aid kit. (Sounds like a bad idea, but my kit has waaaaaaaay more stuff than I need, and it's super heavy.)
-Decide what clothes I'm bringing.
-Figure out how much fuel I'll need and make sure I've bought it all (or know how much to buy at Muir Ranch).
-Buy spare batteries/memory cards for my camera.
-Buy a new bandanna. I lost mine at Tilden last week!
-Go over my itinerary again. And again and again and again.
-Buy a watch (from Target).
-Arrange for stuff to borrow from James and Shizu for the folks joining me.
-Buy extra socks/underwear/sportsbras. (I couldn't find what I was looking for online.)
-Finish meal planning for the rest of the trip.
-Practice packing my bag.
-Buy new stuff sacks to hold clothes, toiletries, etc.
-Buy cords/ties as needed.
-Finish the Spot subscription so the SOS feature actually works.
-Figure out what book(s) to bring.
-And what journal I'm going to use.
-Build tent/blow up air mattress/start stove -- ie, test all equipment that needs testing.
-Try to replace the battery in my Swiss army knife so the altimeter works.

OK, that's the list for now. I swore I wasn't going to do a to-do list yet, but it's been kind of driving me crazy having all of these plans swirling around my head.

Far more fun: I went for a nice 7-mile hike with Michael and Camper on Saturday. So pretty in Redwood Regional! We tackled a pretty steep, long climb so it felt like a good workout.

And now, pictures of Camper tuckered out last weekend. Too much hiking!



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