2019 Hume and Hovell Track
Dried fruit for the Hume and Hovell Track
We are now less than three weeks out from starting our Hume and Hovell thru-hike and around two weeks until we drive part way down the track to cache our food!
Over the past week we have worked out what we are short of, meal wise (we have a large stock of freeze dried meals sitting at home ready for use), have placed the order for additional freeze dried meals and mandatory Clif bars, have purchased our nut and dried fruit allotment ($194 worth, thanks mainly to $50 of Pistachios) and over the next ten days we will start packing our food into daily packs before working out what sized container we need for caching.
This sounds like a lot of money for dried fruit and nuts, and it is, but for those of you who have followed Australian Hiker for a while, you will know that time is our most scarce resource. And even though we won’t use the full purchased amount of fruit and nuts, from a ‘cost benefit’ perspective purchasing commercially prepared food is a logical choice for us.
Over the next ten days we will start assembling all our gear into a spare room in the house to identify any issues or shortcomings. We aren’t expecting any great surprises on this front but always like to do a pre-pack about ten days out just in case.
We are now less than three weeks out from starting our Hume and Hovell thru-hike and around two weeks until we drive part way down the track to cache our food! Over the past week we have worked out what we are short of, meal wise (we have a large stock of freeze dried meals […]