#2 Dinner:Â angel hair pasta (3/4 bag cooked and dehydrated), spaghetti sauce (1/2 jar dehydrated on 2 dinner plates) #1 snacks: chestnuts (org., in foil), 2 granola bars 2 mayo and 2 mustard packets (from The Hat), 3 fresh everything bagels #1 Lunch: 2 pkg tuna (in foil packets by Wild Planet). #1 dessert: sesame treats (korean, home-made by my mom) #1 Dinner: 1 bag tortellini, 1 fresh zucchini Keep track of the important news for me! I just barely got my vacation responder set on both my email accounts before I left (ah damn it, I never submitted my Earthroots hours for this pay period… well, there was bound to be a dropped ball) I’ve just slipped into the darkness and the world can’t reach me out here.

I love being out here and I can hardly believe that I’m already out of cell phone and internet reach. In turn, she covets my inflatable solar lantern from my in-laws (by Luci). Â Three days of food for four people, so basically 12 days of food for one person… L has a great little stove. We each took three dinners, three lunches, and six sets of snacks for two adults and two kids. She says that she can fit nine days of food for one person in one full-size can. Even so, we ended up sleeping with some of it under our pillows the first couple nights. My hiking partner and friend, L, had to get a second bear can – half-size- to fit all our food. Celebrated our arrival (and solstice) with s’mores (1/2 bag marshmallows, 1 pkg grahams, 2 bars Hershey chocolate). We threw in a chopped zucchini and let it cook in the last five minutes. The bagels were fresh-baked from I Love Bagels.ĭinner was Â Trader Joe tortellinis with a bit of olive oil and salt. Though the car ride was about five hours, we never ended up stopping for food, as I had packed bagels with cream cheese and salmon (Bella broiled it with lemon and fresh dill) and cherries. They kids never asked forÂ matches, but got a fire started from the coals left buried in theÂ ashes. Now that they’re out of the car, they’ve been alternating between dancing on the bear boxes and starting a pine needle blaze in our ample fire pit. The kids, R and Christian, are amazed at the sequoias. We are the only ones at Shake Camp ($15/night). Setting up camp at the trailhead to Maggie Lakes in the Sequoia National Forest was the perfect way to spend the summer solstice.

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