By: Dr. Laurie Connell
9 November 2012
Getting food!
As we prepare for our trips out into the field one of our
tasks is doing a “Food Pull”. We make a
calculation of how many days we will be out and how many people will be on the
trip. We also have to take into
consideration how we will be able to cook.
In some places, such as Fang Glacier, we will make hot water only so the
food will consist of dehydrated meals, dry soups and tea. When we are at a fixed field camp with a
building then we have a stove and more room so we can have more regular
meals. Either way we have to collect,
pack and weigh all the food so it can be transported with us out to our
location.
We did our dry food pull for our
Mount Erebus trip yesterday and will do the frozen foods (meat and cheese) on
Saturday. Just the dry part of the pull
took us well over 3 ½ hours to collect and pack.
So, What is the food room
like? It’s kind of like a small grocery
store and the food manager, Peggy, has the inventory all bar coded so she can
keep track of how much goes out to each field party.
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