is it typical to spend whole session buying normal supplies?


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When I was in Scouts, we usually had 60 pound packs. But we rarely hiked more than a mile or two with a 60 pound pack.

And often, we could pull our packs on sleds because of the snow.


johnlocke90 wrote:
Mark Carlson 255 wrote:
johnlocke90 wrote:
Saldiven wrote:

Sixty POUNDS of cheese?

Seriously? A single adult male with an active lifestyle could survive (calorically speaking) for over a month just on this cheese by itself, without losing any weight. What possible need could there be for that much freaking cheese?

Don't underestimate the calories burned per day hiking. An adult male carrying 40 pounds of gear easily burn 6000 calories a day while hiking. Meaning only 18 days worth of cheese.

Split that between a party of 4 and its about 4.5 days worth of calories.

I vote for more cheese production as we are going to have to stock up because the country is going to go to war. ie also need to make special cheese preservation contraptions to preserve the cheese.

Sorry I just could not resist. But if the numbers are right that is a lot of cheese per day of hiking and explain why when in the Boy Scouts we carried other food and not cheese.

MDC

Cheese is reasonably calorie dense. Boy Scouts would consume a lot fewer calories though. You probably weren't carrying 50 pounds of gear and weren't 185 pound men(my assumptions in the math).

Actually I was carrying 50+ pounds even though I weighed 130 pounds, my pack was heaver then some of the fathers because I was in better shape and took some extra equipment because we had quite a few new members for that hike.

The year before I hiked almost 600 miles with even a Maui Hawaii trip so I was in very good shape vs some of the others in the troop but no where as close to the guy from the 101 who went in on d-day in WWII.
MDC


It's not normal, but if the group has enough money and a big place to spend it then it is certainly possible to spend an entire game session shopping. Some preparation would mitigate this of course.


Mark Carlson 255 wrote:
johnlocke90 wrote:
Mark Carlson 255 wrote:
johnlocke90 wrote:
Saldiven wrote:

Sixty POUNDS of cheese?

Seriously? A single adult male with an active lifestyle could survive (calorically speaking) for over a month just on this cheese by itself, without losing any weight. What possible need could there be for that much freaking cheese?

Don't underestimate the calories burned per day hiking. An adult male carrying 40 pounds of gear easily burn 6000 calories a day while hiking. Meaning only 18 days worth of cheese.

Split that between a party of 4 and its about 4.5 days worth of calories.

I vote for more cheese production as we are going to have to stock up because the country is going to go to war. ie also need to make special cheese preservation contraptions to preserve the cheese.

Sorry I just could not resist. But if the numbers are right that is a lot of cheese per day of hiking and explain why when in the Boy Scouts we carried other food and not cheese.

MDC

Cheese is reasonably calorie dense. Boy Scouts would consume a lot fewer calories though. You probably weren't carrying 50 pounds of gear and weren't 185 pound men(my assumptions in the math).

Actually I was carrying 50+ pounds even though I weighed 130 pounds, my pack was heaver then some of the fathers because I was in better shape and took some extra equipment because we had quite a few new members for that hike.

The year before I hiked almost 600 miles with even a Maui Hawaii trip so I was in very good shape vs some of the others in the troop but no where as close to the guy from the 101 who went in on d-day in WWII.
MDC

Are you saying that you were carrying 50+ pounds of cheese of 50+pounds of stuff?

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wraithstrike wrote:


Are you saying that you were carrying 50+ pounds of cheese of 50+pounds of stuff?

Hopefully it wasn't in a single block so that he'd have to use a knife to cut slices of it to share it out later. (With all this talk of cheese - someone had to go there!)

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Charon's Little Helper wrote:
wraithstrike wrote:


Are you saying that you were carrying 50+ pounds of cheese of 50+pounds of stuff?
Hopefully it wasn't in a single block so that he'd have to use a knife to cut slices of it to share it out later. (With all this talk of cheese - someone had to go there!)

A Cheese Ninja would stink!

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