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Taking one step at a time, hiker helps animal shelter
BY MEGAN REITER
STAFF WRITER
11/30/2007
(http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm?brd=2185&dept_id=416046&newsid=19071776)
HONESDALE — It took one borough resident two pairs of shoes, seven months, more than 2,100 miles and 4,000 Snickers bars to hike the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine and raise $10,000 for the Dessin Animal Shelter.
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19071776&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6
Lone Wolf
12-04-2007, 09:36
i've never eaten a Snickers bar while hiking
i've never eaten a Snickers bar while hiking
They are great for energy :)
WalkinHome
12-04-2007, 10:07
In 2000 Snickers was having a contest with instant winners and the like. I do not recall more than one or two hikers ever getting anything other than another Snickers bar for free. Can you say "scam"? That 4,000 number is quite huge as I loosely figure I ate about 400 on my thru and that counts 2 a day and some wiggle room for extras. 4,000 wow!
In 2000 Snickers was having a contest with instant winners and the like. I do not recall more than one or two hikers ever getting anything other than another Snickers bar for free. Can you say "scam"? That 4,000 number is quite huge as I loosely figure I ate about 400 on my thru and that counts 2 a day and some wiggle room for extras. 4,000 wow!
The number sounds suspect, but then maybe she ate the mini-bars or, more likely, she said, "snickers bars? sure I ate snickers bars. must have been about 4,000 tee hee".
Lone Wolf
12-04-2007, 10:18
nobody can eat 19 snickers a day for 7 months
nitewalker
12-04-2007, 10:21
Taking one step at a time, hiker helps animal shelter
BY MEGAN REITER
STAFF WRITER
11/30/2007
HONESDALE — It took one borough resident two pairs of shoes, seven months, more than 2,100 miles and 4,000 Snickers bars to hike the entire Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine and raise $10,000 for the Dessin Animal Shelter.
http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19071776&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6
uggggh:( , 4000.....i couldnt eat 4000 of them over 3 lifetimes. my good that just leads to the overweight hiker thread....4000 that 2000$ worth of them ...no way of a 1500$ thruhike there........omg
She had a hiking partner, so maybe it was 10 bars each per day - article doesn't say whether the 4,000 was for one or both. If they ate Snicker Miniatures, then it is possible.
taildragger
12-04-2007, 10:23
nobody can eat 19 snickers a day for 7 months
She had to start putting on a winter coat for a late season in Maine...
Footslogger
12-04-2007, 10:24
TNTC ...too numerous to count. I did the Snickers thing in phases because I would ocassionally get so sick of them I couldn't bring myself to looking at one. But, when I did have the Snickers mojo I was going through about 4 a day (the super sized ones). Somewhere during my thru in 2003 I discovered the Kashi bars and found them to provide longer lasting energy and they had a list of healthier contents.
'Slogger
Lone Wolf
12-04-2007, 10:25
She had a hiking partner, so maybe it was 10 bars each per day - article doesn't say whether the 4,000 was for one or both. If they ate Snicker Miniatures, then it is possible.
i still call BS. all newspaper articles about thru-hikes are embellished and loaded with crap
I loved snikers and peanutbutter for about 400 miles and than I got sick of both;and today I still cant bring myself to eat them.
I agree - story is FOS. I was just saying it was possible.
p.s. If you need a Snickers fix, you can locate the nearest Snickers store by clicking here (http://storefinder.mmmars.com/snickers/snickers.htm).
Uncle Silly
12-04-2007, 10:29
i've never eaten a Snickers bar while hiking
Me neither. The chocolate would melt in my pocket and I can't stand melty chocolate bars.
I always wait until a good break spot for my Snickers.
nitewalker
12-04-2007, 10:32
most hiking stories are blown out of proportion. good selling point in todays world..arent hiking sories like fishing and hunting stories?
Uncle Silly
12-04-2007, 10:33
4000 snickers bars? 5000 calories a day? yeah, i think there's a little exaggeration going on here.
Gray Blazer
12-04-2007, 10:36
I've seen thrubees put mayo on their snickers before eating them. Talk about your cravings.
nitewalker
12-04-2007, 10:38
I've seen thrubees put mayo on their snickers before eating them. Talk about your cravings.
now thats disgusting:eek: . i want to vomit at the thought of that.....hold the mayo..................
taildragger
12-04-2007, 10:42
now thats disgusting:eek: . i want to vomit at the thought of that.....hold the mayo..................
I couldn't agree more. A snickers bar, like the one I'm eating right now, is more conducive to eating with a serving of grey pou pon.
Sick sick mayo people...
Grey pou pou. Ugh! Try something basic like peanut butter.
4000 snickers bars? 5000 calories a day? yeah, i think there's a little exaggeration going on here.
What is the current thinking on calorie count? I recall reading a thru-hike required a range of 4,000 to 6,000 calories/day to avoid burning muscle?
4000 freaking snickers bars ??!!..ugh. I got sick of them too and went to luna and cliff bars with an occasional candy bars and MMs.. i do LUV them..:) I know folks who sucked down butter from the jar. i would hear them at night . SICK..lol
Here's an alternative http://www.hersheys.com/reeses/products/detail.asp?name=fastbreak made near the Trail in Stuarts Draft, VA
hopefulhiker
12-04-2007, 11:30
I ate at least two Snickers or Snickers Marathon bars a day on the trail...
Uncle Silly
12-04-2007, 12:35
What is the current thinking on calorie count? I recall reading a thru-hike required a range of 4,000 to 6,000 calories/day to avoid burning muscle?
Well, there's at least three different questions to the numbers:
1) how many calories do you burn per day on a thru-hike?
2) how many calories can you eat per day on a thru-hike?
3) how many calories can you carry for each day on a thru-hike?
6000 calories is a lot of food. I can just about guarantee the only time you'll eat that much is in town. You'll be eating all day.
It's probably a reasonable guesstimate for how much you'll burn in a day of walking, though.
Counting the calories you eat is a lot easier than estimating what you're burning. More likely, you'll be carrying and eating around 3000 calories a day. In my experience, a calorie deficit is guaranteed: I can't carry enough food to replace what I'm burning, and even if I could carry it I probably couldn't eat all that day after day, and even if I could eat it all I wouldn't get anywhere because I'd spend all day eating.
taildragger
12-04-2007, 12:39
I've done the 4000/day on a hike, and unless you continually snack and walk its hard to maintain. I always find it hard to sit down and eat a good meal at the end of the day since the only thing on my mind is sleep. Although, a big meal of GORP and granola in the morning to get me started is a must, just gotta love that evolving to deal with burning calories.
Gray Blazer
12-04-2007, 12:39
even if I could carry it I probably couldn't eat all that day after day, and even if I could eat it all I wouldn't get anywhere because I'd spend all day eating.
If you didn't spend all your time pink-blazing (double, even!!:eek: ) you might get somewhere!
Just a Hiker
12-04-2007, 12:45
Ever try and eat a frozen Snickers? It ain't fun.....I am a Butterfinger man!!:D
i've never eaten a Snickers bar while hiking
I've never hiked while eating a snickers bar.:D
Uncle Silly
12-04-2007, 12:55
If you didn't spend all your time pink-blazing (double, even!!:eek: ) you might get somewhere!
See? I gots better things to do than sit around at a shelter tryin' to eat 6000 calories!! :D
max patch
12-04-2007, 13:04
To put another perspective on it; 4,000 snickers bars would be the equivalent of eating one every 1/2 mile.
That 30 mile day -- 60 snickers bars!!! -- would be painful.
hmm tought one!
let's see. I found that hiking the AT requires two regular snickers bars per day (in addition of course to breakfast and dinner foods and crackers and cheese and/or gorp for lunch). I generally bought about 5 days food at a time. Didn't tend to eat snickers in town.
so 194 days for my trip - 20 or so rest days = 174x 2 = 348. At times I carried king size snickers bars which are worth nearly two regular size. So lets round up to about 400 bars. Of cours the fun size (tiny) are too small to be of use. I did have some of those though anyway.
At 2 snickers bars per day * 280 calories per bar.. I got 560 calories (lets round it up to 600 calories) from snickers each day.
How the heck can one get 4000 calories a day just from snickers!
And this from one who named himself snickers!!! http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/icons/icon7.gif
Uncle Silly
12-04-2007, 13:11
To put another perspective on it; 4,000 snickers bars would be the equivalent of eating one every 1/2 mile.
That 30 mile day -- 60 snickers bars!!! -- would be painful.
After the first mile or two you'd be on enough of a sugar rush that you'd get to the next half-mile before you finished the last half-mile's snickers. You'd have take lunch breaks just to catch up.
Sounds like an easy way to get a 4+ mph pace in!
Of course, that's nearly 8 lbs of Snickers... and if I remember right that one regular Snickers bar gives you 270 calories, you'll get 16,200 calories in during that 30 mile day. I betcha can't get to sleep for a while after that!
AT-HITMAN2005
12-04-2007, 13:13
there is such a variety of bars out there that you shouldn't have to eat only snickers. wether its other candy bars or energy bars.
i personally like to mix it up. i was partial to take 5's, they held up pretty well. and skittles were good for a pick me up, towards the end of the day.
Lion King
12-04-2007, 15:03
I dont eat them anymore.
Hate um in fact.
The year was 2005 I think, when I was in a shelter in the Smokies (Mollies Ridge) with Rooster and his wife, as a cold front set in and froze everything solid.
I took a bit out of a snikcer bar and it broke one on my back teeth in half.
Sucked.
I was chewing and felt it and knew it was a tooth.
A cold Snickers could be used as a weapon in the right circumstances.
I used Snickers and Milky Way candy bars for a greater part of my mid day snacks/lunch. Just to make it more interesting I would take either and cover it with a load of peanut butter and roll it up in a flour tortilla, ahhhh the calories, would always get me over the next mountain. In the 3 plus yrs since my thru-hike I haven't eaten a single Snickers bar. Still love my Milky Ways tho.
Respect experience and wisdom
and you will gain experience, wisdom
and respect.
Appalachian Tater
12-04-2007, 21:10
To put another perspective on it; 4,000 snickers bars would be the equivalent of eating one every 1/2 mile.
That's exactly what I was thinking. No way somebody did that.
there is such a variety of bars out there that you shouldn't have to eat only snickers. wether its other candy bars or energy bars.
i personally like to mix it up. i was partial to take 5's, they held up pretty well. and skittles were good for a pick me up, towards the end of the day.
YES.. when you get tired of snickers... there are milky way bars. YUM.
I think there should be a forum devoted exlusively to chocolate..the varities, wonders, and benefits thereof. To me..chocolate is its own food group...and the most important!!! And of course there is hot cocoa.
I could never hike a trail without chocolate!!
I ate enough Snickers in 04 to the point that I have'nt eaten one since....
I averaged 2 a day or better, so 350+ is a good estimate.
Too bad Model-T doesn't participate here more often. In his book, he talks about his Snickers habit, including hiding them from his hiking buddy who thought he was overdoing it. I wonder how many he ate. :-?
superman
12-05-2007, 07:40
I ate lots of them. By Maine I was sick of snickers and most of the common hiking foods. I was carrying big bags of cold cuts, bread and mustard. The only common hiking food I was still carrying at the end was ramen. I always carried a few extra ramen in case I planned wrong, chit happened and they are soo light in the pack. I'm 60 years old, have all my own teeth with no cavities and I've attributed that to not eating sweets. I was concerned what effect the snickers might have on my teeth but I worried for nothing.