Quote Originally Posted by Yankee15 View Post
If you don't bring ten days of supplies, you will die
The actual (not ) situation for me was that I thought I had a generous 8 days of supply (20 lbs. of food). It took 7 days of strenuous hiking. Two hurricanes blew through that week, with zillions of blow-downs to scramble over/around, and beaver dams plus rain made for knee-deep slogging in the flats. I had nothing but dregs in a tube of peanut butter and a little black pepper by the morning of the last day, and that was a hungry day of hiking. With all the weather-related extra exertion required I consumed 7,500-8,000 calories each day, and still lost noticeable weight.

Respect Maine weather, folks, and carry some extra food just in case.