I’ve done a fair amount of winter mountaineering and that’s roughly the diet required. It takes a lot of fuel to generate enough heat.
Carry butter by the stick and eat it like a candy bar.
LOL
Yes. I live in such a place (spraying ice, high winds, etc.). For combat soldiers, heavy nutrition is also required to avoid stress fractures. I carried one for about a half a mile near the end of an 18-mile run.
Will be fencing for yaks during the next couple of weeks. Even they will need to be fed hay in winter here (over 9,000 feet, ice sprays off of 14-ers just to the west). I’m hoping that we’re done with this dryer, solar max weather in another year or two (return to wetter, colder fluctuations).
Just finished backfilling around 300 cubic yards of earth by hand with my daughter, just to see if we could do it (and learn a few more things about ourselves) and toughen-up a little more. Part of the water system is gravity-fed from a cistern. No injuries. We’re learning kung fu. Tai chi was too slow for most of the cold year. ;-)