While I don't anticipate any river crossings (frozen nipples, misplaced souls, etc), I'm sure we'll manage some sort of adventure.So the plan is to leave late morningish (10AM?) on Friday August 8, grab lunch around Oakdale, and set up camp at Upper Pines for the night. If at all possible, I think we should just take one car (and it should be possible since all our shit will have to fit in our backpacks...). Dan, we've got a couch with your name on it. Not quite, but we can make a name tag for it.
Schedule:
Friday August 8
* drive to Yosemite
* Del Taco, etc for lunch in Oakdale
* set up camp in the valley, get some firewood from Curry Village
* hotdogs, chips, random vegetables for dinner
Saturday August 9
* break camp, repack backpacks, pick up backpacking permit (early morning 7-9 AM)
* cereal, yogurt for breakfast
* pack sandwiches for lunch
* hike up the mountain for a very, very long time (lunch near the trail split to Vernal)
* set up camp in Little Yosemite Valley
* cashew chicken curry for dinner
Sunday August 10
* oatmeal, cliff bars for breakfast
* pack lunches (peanut butter on tortillas?), trail mix, etc
* hike over to Half Dome, freak out because it's really big
* beef stroganoff for dinner
Monday August 11
* Platypus Brigade: The Wedding (wander back to Nevada Falls)
* lunch suggestions... (I'm cool with more peanut butter tortilla things)
* stuff around Little Yosemite Valley (this is the "chill" day...)
* couscous, need other dinner ideas...
Tuesday August 12
* pack up, hike down the mountain for a very long time
* probably scrounge trail mix and left over random stuff for lunch
* drive home
In the food department, I've also got some Gatorade powder stuff and a few Powerbars. I was planning to check Costco for a box of some sort of cliff bars or something closer to being food than powerbars. Let me know how you all feel about oatmeal for breakfast, because I don't eat it, and someone else should choose flavors. We need one more major dinner item, and if anyone can think of something else for lunch, I'm open to suggestions. Keep in mind, we can't really have anything that needs refrigeration, and bread would probably not survive and would be a waste of space.
****Remember to bring gloves if you want to try to go all the way up Half Dome****
We're covered in the tent department, I've got 3-person and 1-person backpacking tents. I have an extra sleeping bag I borrowed from my dad, and if my boss remembers to let me borrow one of his backpacks, I've got 4 backpacks (although one is small and Dan is probably better off getting his own). I've got a water filter, a veritable shitload of platypus and camelback products, a backpacking stove and cooking set, 3 conveniently sized plastic bowls, and sets of heavy duty plastic utensils. Also, bug repellant, camp soap stuff, sunblock, solar shower thingy. Umm.. let me know if it looks like something vital is missing from this list.
I recommend picking up some sock liners (really thin fitted white silkish socks that go inside your thick hiking socks). I was wearing some when we went to Yosemite Falls, and no blisters! Yay!
12 comments:
where can I get sock liners, I know Im a newb. and as for dinner/lunch suggestions, scrounging on whatevers around should be fine, considering Ill be in the most beautiful place in all of California, with my best friends. I could think of something at a later point and time though, perhaps when Im hungrier Ill get more ideas, of course Ill take into account that it needs to be backpacking food. I will purchase a sleeping bag while up there, if I could borrow a back pack this one last time that would be awesome, and would save me some bones. everything else seems perfectly in order, I plan on giving you money for food supplies, rather than bringing any of my own. I hope thats not a problem. just let me know, I cant wait!@
you could plan on catching game, like squirrels.
No, we're not catching squirrels. I don't think there's much eatin on those anyway, and I'd rather not get banned for life from Yosemite.
I'm not expecting any food to be transported by plane. We'll probably go heckle Dan this weekend and make him use his REI connections. Actually, should we spot you for a sleeping bag while using his REI connections? He said something about 15% discount I think.
Also, shopping list for me, because I'm forgetful and I'll probably look here:
-hot dogs and something to put them in
-bread, cheese, lettuce
-oatmeal
-trail mix
-jerky
-peanut butter
-tortillas
We should try to loot small ketchup/mustard packets from Del Taco or where ever, so we don't have to deal with big bottles of stuff.
Oh, and for sock liners you'd probably have to go to some sort of outdoorsy store. I don't think I've seen them anywhere else. I'm not sure what you've got in your area, but something like big 5 might.
you could make socks out of squirrel pelts.
hehe, dude, we like the squirrels we dont hurt them for socks, Syd and Ron half debated being married by a ground squirrel instead of by me, so needless to say, they are sacred.
on a more serious note. You can totally front me on a sleeping bag, just remember Im big and I dont like the color pink. Other than that I trust yall and I have cash. There is a big 5 around here, and other sporting good places, Im sure Ill find something as far as sock liners. geez I have such little time to prepare considering that Im leaving for Big Bear this Friday and coming back Sunday.
Is it that hard to indulge me for just a little bit?
I guess I'm just bitter that I didn't get a pic with a red caption...
you didn't get a pic because you didn't seem traumatized by the whole thing. and no one ever photoshopped you carrying ron and steve across the river... gogogo
touche!
REI and Sports basement are both on the list for discount dealings, food and sleeping bag wise. There may also be the possibility of renting a pack if the need arose. Haven't checking into it yet but a friend told me about it and it's probably a possibility (and what I'll do).
Also there are gloves to borrow at the bottom of the cable section. Though I know some/many of you may be too paranoid/germaphobic to count on a box of gloves
Crow, if you're going to want to use my old camera on the trip, I recommend bringing up some multiple of 4 AA batteries. I'm sure we have some lying around, but I don't know how many.
Got it, batteries, foso
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