Big Wall Food One Can't Go Without

Peanut butter and sesame seeds and honey with a pitch of salt 

I think it was Chouinard that took cans of cat food on walls BITD, Dirt bag cuisine at its finest. 

Not a wall guy, but I'd take a couple Payday candy bars on long multi pitch routes BITD. 

Seems that we have been regularly bringing Swedish Fish, they are a fantastic little snack plus Gushers. Ya, Gushers are the best for long runs, big days and that nice balance between chewy and gooey. 

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Kyle Pereirawrote:

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I looooooove those!!! Seconded

ZT Gwrote:

Salmon or tuna packets, nice crackers, Pepsi, weed.

If one runs out I’m done 99.9% of the time

Great protien.  However, my partner brought these on Forbidden peak, which is obviously only a day route. But after opening and eating it, we spent the rest of the day smelling the left over tuna packet juice.  It was quite repulsive after several hours.  I can image after several days.  And I wouldn’t want to waste my precious wall water on cleaning the packet 

My legendary home made beef jerky.  

My first wall was Washington Column in 1983. I forget most of the stuff we ate, but do have a picture from dinner ledge of me eating pineapple rings out of the can with my ‘super long dong’ piton cleaning tool. Delicious!

What I do remember quite vividly is getting benighted half way down North Dome Gully with no food or water; all we had for the long, cold night was butterscotch candies and 2/3 bottle of my partner’s Jack Daniel’s.

I occasionally eat butterscotch candies now, but to this day cannot even stand the smell of Jack Daniel’s. 

Jodi Tallowrote:

Great protien.  However, my partner brought these on Forbidden peak, which is obviously only a day route. But after opening and eating it, we spent the rest of the day smelling the left over tuna packet juice.  It was quite repulsive after several hours.  I can image after several days.  And I wouldn’t want to waste my precious wall water on cleaning the packet 

I fish commercially, must notta noticed. 

I started a DIY ENERGY GEL AND DRINK thread that might be of interest to some wallers

Just remembered!!

Coconut water!  The hydration ounce for ounce is very hard to beat.  You can almost feel tour cells hydrating after slamming a Cdub at the end of a day.  

Jodi Tallowrote:

Great protien.  However, my partner brought these on Forbidden peak, which is obviously only a day route. But after opening and eating it, we spent the rest of the day smelling the left over tuna packet juice.  It was quite repulsive after several hours.  I can image after several days.  And I wouldn’t want to waste my precious wall water on cleaning the packet 

Um, ziplock bags.

Jodi Tallowrote:

Great protien.  However, my partner brought these on Forbidden peak, which is obviously only a day route. But after opening and eating it, we spent the rest of the day smelling the left over tuna packet juice.  It was quite repulsive after several hours.  I can image after several days.  And I wouldn’t want to waste my precious wall water on cleaning the packet 

Haha did you eat the tuna and shove the empty packet into your pocket? Luckily on a wall you have these things called haul bags where you can keep your trash and other things.

Skot Richardswrote:

My legendary home made beef jerky.  

Legend has it he throws in a bag with every purchase of the a4 alfifi…

Skots jerky and coconut water. 

+1 on coconut h20

Joey Chicharroneswrote:

Legend has it he throws in a bag with every purchase of the a4 alfifi…

I’ve actually thought about doing that!