With club trips 2 staples are pasta or rice. There is always 1 who pops out a full 500g packet when the 1 person serving (with other stuff) is about a half cup. I have also seen more than 1 1kg of cheese when its just a topping
One time having dry food isnt that important is trips where you have to carry your water so you ether carry water and dry food or less water and wet food
"@ IanH man I would love to hike through dolpo. Did you get to shey gompa and crystal mountain?"
No, we got as far as Ringmo / Poksumdo Tal, then around the side of the lake before returning. We were lucky to get that far, didn't have proper permits for that area at all. Started from the lowland, steamy jungle and monkeys swinging from the trees and just headed north to that area, headed back south around then east via Dhorpatan to Pokhara. 1991 I think it was, the first multiparty elections were going on while were out there.
Some of that country is described in Peter Mathiessen's The Snow Leopard, though he started from Pokhara and went west via Dhorpatan to that area in the early 1970's.
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There's actually a trail around the far shore of the lake in this picture, mostly heavy stakes hammered into cracks in the rock cliff with a log laid along them, sometimes 50 or more metres above the lake surface.
Extraordinary how you can just type a name into a computer and pull up lots of pictures of an area that seemed so mysterious and remote 25 or more years ago.
The snow leopard is one of my favourite books. Bought a copy in Nepal.
On that trip where I experienced massive food envy over the savoury rice/pita pockets combo, the same party had given one of their members a jar (glass jar!) of Dolmio pasta sauce. He carried it round the NW circuit until his alloted evening somewhat late in the trip. I would have 'dropped' the bloody thing long before that...
I took my cousin tramping once I pulled out my couscous and tuna he pulled out a hunk of steak and potatoes, I was a little jealous.
