2026 Heysen Trail
Food prep for the Heysen
Yesterday evening was spent putting my food together for the first two sections for my upcoming trip on the Heysen Trail. I’ve, or I should say we’ve, done this enough times that this only took around an hour to knock off which involves a set of scales and lots of weighing.
Over the past few years I have managed to work out my eating patterns and I’m averaging 615 grams (dry weight) of food for each day. I’ve worked this out over the years – it’s pretty much impossible to consume the amount of calories I burn on a daily basis and when I’m in full-on long distance hiking mode. I average burning around 5,000+ calories, but on really big days I can burn up to 8,000+ calories. This trip is nowhere near that extreme but potentially I will lose around 20+ kg over the 7-8 week duration.
The first resupply box will go into the mail today and I still have the rest of the trip food to finalise this weekend but given that the next resupply box doesn’t need to be sent for another week there is time.
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