Bushwalk Australia

what have people craved while on multi day walks?

I dont usually eat chips, nor enjoy them... but on one long 30km day on the overland last month, i suddenly thought i smelt come CCs, and was suddenly obsessed with them. it was actually another couple eating them about 300m away and i managed to smell it!?!?

first thing i got when i came back to civilisation was a packet of CCs.. and ive been going through a pack every few days since!..... strange. I remember on another multi day hike, i we were talking about food, and the topic of nice lamb shanks popped up, then in my mind were images of lamb shanks, smell of lamb shanks, taste of lamb shanks...

if i were some food manufacturer, i'd set up little stalls along a track, giving away small free samples of what ever food, (no matter how disgusting) and then set up a proper shop near the end of the track, charging an arm and leg. hope if the psychology works, that person (like me) will end up buying that product long after the hike is finished.... just another crazy idea.

root beer. Ever since I was a kid.

guinness... but then, i crave that most of the time!

We had fresh scotch fillet steak and onions at Pelion Hut on Tuesday night. I think that everyone else in the hut was craving them! Sure got a lot of comments.

The knees of my walking companion with 15 years less abuse...

There is a downside to walking alone, but I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that sort of thing here . . .

Son of a Beach wrote:We had fresh scotch fillet steak and onions at Pelion Hut on Tuesday night. I think that everyone else in the hut was craving them! Sure got a lot of comments.

bugger... we were there on Wednesday night!...

(But hey, we had the usual bbq steak/sausages fresh italian salad n' blueberry p'cakes with fresh cream/maple syrup for desert )

Nuts wrote:

Son of a Beach wrote:We had fresh scotch fillet steak and onions at Pelion Hut on Tuesday night. I think that everyone else in the hut was craving them! Sure got a lot of comments.

bugger... we were there on Wednesday night!...

(But hey, we had the usual bbq steak/sausages fresh italian salad n' blueberry p'cakes with fresh cream/maple syrup for desert )

We passed one of your groups on the way up Marions. I told the leader to say hi to you, but she probably forgot by then.

Shame we missed you. Sounds like we had similar menus.

funny thing. my recent experience is that i expected to have some sort of cravings, but the longer i walked the less important the whole food stuff became. sure, we had our little jokes with the guided walks about the nice cold sav blanc that was waiting for them each night along with the 3 course meal, but i was mainly so content with what i was achieving and how the days unfolded that i didn't miss anything from the outside world. even when i arrived at lake st. clair i found the whole cafe thingy at the visitor centre rather an anti-climax to anything i had experienced in the last couple of days. (mind you the smell of old grease didn't trigger any desire to consume).

petra

north-north-west wrote:There is a downside to walking alone, but I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that sort of thing here . . .

Haha oh dear!

I tend to get a bit sick of museli and powdered milk for breakfast. A nice big fry up would do wonders. That and cold beer.

I don't usually have food cravings while out walking, but as soon as I'm back within reach of civilisation - and it's worse the longer I've been out - I would just about kill for a thick, rare steak.

If I have the opportunity at the end of a Hike I will always choose a Meat Pie or if available a Chiko Roll ,aah!! health food
corvus

I start dreaming about sitting down and having a nice coffee.
Cheers
Andrew

Never mind the coffee, I spend half my time dreaming about just sitting down.

It's more about the coffee than sitting down!

Chocolate milk....... and cheese twisties.

Mmmmmmmmmmm....

I get cravings for nice, country baked sausage rolls.
It was always good on the road run home, we could call into a nice little country bakery and get our fill.

I suspect cravings for Riesling and Saganaki means I wasn't getting enough salt in my diet on a recent trip. Slow roast lamb is my other major hike craving.

Chocolate, lots and lots of it (I ration what I take and it infuriates me). Maybe even a Big M...
My longest walk has been 4 days, and on the third evening, getting jack of freeze-dri, I wanted a Porterhouse with the lot or a succulent lamb. 22km more on foot, then 330km by car and I got both on my return home...

Usually fresh bread and salad once I'm a few days into a walk.

When mark and I finished the WA's last year we got some Maccas at Bridgewater, the salty chips were the best thing ever.
A few years back on returning from bushwalks around the WOJ and cradle, we always used to pop into Mole Creek and get a big pile of chips, but I don't think that shop is there anymore

Large Quarter Pounder Meal with Coke.

Once, when 17, we climbed one of the Glass House Mountains and at about 8pm we got the craving for junk food and realised we had none. We could see a servo from where we were. So we climbed down without torch, only moonlight and bought some stuff and climbed back up. It was only the morning after when we descended a second time that we realised how stupid we were. There were so many times we came close to death, skidding on our bums, unbeware of the steep cliff just beyond the ledge.

I may just add I was 17 and not proud of this act of stupidity.

I tend to crave the most random, inaccessible things. Last year in NZ I craved vegetable dumplings from Dumpling King with brown vinegar. I craved them for weeks. Ended up satisfying myself with some wedges and sweet chilli sauce. Bit different though.

Usually a nice big homemade beefburger (with lotsa fried onions) and chips or a nice greasy pizza. I guess after dehyds for a week your body craves a bit of fat n rubbish ! After finishing the OT a few years back, my buddies and I had a pie n chips from the little diner. Man, it was good ! And I had 2 big coffees too. Regards.

Whenever we are heading back to Launceston after a walk we always drop in at the first available takeaway store and grab chips, dim sims and coke; wow, it is amazing how good you feel after a good feed of greasy, salty carbs washed down with the most sugar loaded soft drink on the market

Phil wrote:Whenever we are heading back to Launceston after a walk we always drop in at the first available takeaway store and grab chips, dim sims and coke; wow, it is amazing how good you feel after a good feed of greasy, salty carbs washed down with the most sugar loaded soft drink on the market

I did that after my first overnighter on the mainland (the southern Prom circuit).
It stayed down for all of fifteen minutes . . .

Bad take-away reminds me of an experience in Queenstown 15-20 years ago. I ordered chips and a burger with the lot at a local take-away. The cook stuck his hand into a tub of fat and flick some onto the grill. Some dropped on the floor. He picked it up and flicked it onto the grill, wiped his hand on his apron, then grabbed the burger meat and dropped in onto the fat. Next he scratched deep into his plumbers, then grabbed a handful of chips and dropped them into the basket which he then plunged into the oil.

I left. I felt sick and I hadn't even eaten.

MMmmmmmmmsssttttraberrrrryy milk

Yeah, I'm with you,Turfa.
TWISTIES!!!