Post Mountain Update 2

Well, I’ve got a couple of videos related to food 🍿 to share with you. This will be my last post about the preparations leading up to the mountain climb. It should get us caught up with what I filmed before leaving and had intended to publish on my climb if I hadn’t ran into technical problems with copying footage to my iPad.

This first video shows how I packed and sorted my food, along with what types of meals I planned to eat on the trip. I filmed it around 3:30 in the morning the day I left. My fiancé was sleeping and I was pretty tired so I’m speaking quieter than normal 🤫 . I’ll be doing a follow up video later on regarding how well all of this food planning ended up working out.

The second video is a recipe for some dehydrated ground beef. From what I hear, dehydrated ground beef isn’t very enjoyable. It can get a rancid taste and also it doesn’t tend to re-hydrate well since there’s not much there to reabsorb water. I found a recipe shared by Dixie over on her channel HomeMade Wanderlust that looks to solve that problem so I’m giving it a shot.

Here’s the recipe:

• Ingredients

  • 1 lb 93% lean ground beef (It needs to be 93% to help prevent the rancid taste)

  • 1/2 cup bread crumbs

• Instructions

  • Combine raw ground beef, breadcrumbs and salt & pepper to taste in a bowl until thoroughly mixed

  • Brown ground beef mixture in skillet

• Rinse it in hot water to remove as much grease as you can

• Drain well and dry with paper towels, again to remove as much grease as possible

• Use parchment paper or buy a fine mesh screen for your dehydrator if you need to prevent it from falling through the grates

• Dehydrate on 145℉ (60 ℃) for about 6 hours (you’ll know when its completely dry). You can mix it around during drying to dry more evenly if you want.

Stay tuned to the end of the video to see how well it tasted on the trip and also get a sneak peak at some of the first footage from the mountain.

Mountain Training - Day 61 - Getting Outside and Breakfast

It’s finally nice out! I’ve been making the most of it running outside a lot the past 11 days.

In fact, I ran 4 miles straight for the first time in my life last Wednesday. It felt great and I gave a little Rocky-esque arm cheer when I crossed my imaginary finish line. I ran it at a slower pace than I’m used to because I was focusing on staying in my aerobic heart rate zone, but I could have ran another mile if I wasn’t on a time crunch for dinner.

Riding the wave of good weather feel good vibes, I decided to do some training on hills with my 23 lb backpack. My goal is to do an exercise wearing it each week because I want to get used to wearing it and work the extra muscles involved with carrying it. I drove out to Pioneer’s Park and ran some laps up and down 2 hills with 60 foot elevation rises. I had an audience while doing it. There was a couple hiding behind some bushes having a picnic watching me. Then when they got up and left, another couple sat down to enjoy the sunset right at my turn around point. I just used it as motivation not to slack and walk more than I absolutely had to. 😉

It’s just over 1,000 feet to those trees

Finally, I thought I’d share with you my morning meals.

I have tried to reduce the amount of sugar in these smoothies since recording this because it felt like a lot once I watched this video back by taking a multi vitamin and lower sugar protein powder in lieu of the chocolate breakfast powder on some days.