Aconcagua Food Preparation

Preparing food, fuel, stove, water filters for my Aconcagua Expedition in January of 2008

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Aconcagua
• Food
• Fuel
• Stove
• Mountaineering
• Water
• Filter
• Moosejaw
• Maehl

[HandsHeldHigh1]

you need some guns

[granitepeaker]

@HandsHeldHigh1 ... guns as in muscles? Our packs weight about 120lbs.

[famsfams]

So how was Aconcagua? Tell me more about it, was the food enough? Did the stoves worked fine in the altittude? You talk about taking some vegetables and meat from Mendoza, how many days could you keep them without a freeze? Did you reached the summit? I don´t see any more videos from Aconcagua among your other videos.

[granitepeaker]

@famsfams From trailhead to trailhead it took 2 weeks. A very quick summit and traverse over the mountain. I never bought any food in Mendoza. The other guys on my team bought a lot of food at the walmart there. I stuck to the freeze dried foods. Breakfasts were the worst. I should have brought oatmeal instead of the freeze dried breakfast. The food was enough. The original plan was to do the Polish Glacier. We started an hour up that and was sinking in knee deep.

[granitepeaker]

@famsfams So we went down and return the climbing gear and did the cut across to the main route. Still managed to get to the summit a couple hours before the people from the main route. There was probably 45 people trying that day and about 30 made it. Big storm rolled in later. I reached the summit long before my team did so I was on the summit for like 3 hours. I was going to make a dvd and sell it on amazon, but life got busy. Maybe I'll upload more youtube clips instead.

[marlin187]

He can get them when on the ground.