Mt Whitney & Swedish Fish for Breakfast – Episode 886

: Episode 886 – Vinnie tells Anna about his Mt Whitney hike debacle with his nephews who seemed to live on Swedish Fish and Gatorade…

SWEDISH FISH

• Vinnie decided to go on a hiking trip with his two nephews and friend, Don
• His two nephews, one who is a freshman in college and the other who is a few years older, came to LA
• They are from Louisiana so had no experience with altitude whatsoever
• Don and Vinnie got passes to go and hike Whitney
• One of Vinnie’s nephews was in great sport-shape, and the other one had some extra weight on him
• The boys did not eat NSNG, in fact they ate a diet of mostly carbs
  • For example, literally ate candy for meals
• The altitude proved tough for them
• His fitter nephew had more trouble than his overweight nephew
  • Fitter nephew seemed to give up quite early
    • Hayden
  • Overweight nephew did quite well, although he did not summit, he pushed himself
    • Steel
    • Also, now he is going to try out NSNG because he is determined to come back and summit the mountain in the future!!
• The only one who actually got to summit was Don Coddington!
• There were old ladies passing Vinnie’s nephews
• After the nephews ate an incredibly carby meal, nobody went to sleep though they had to wake up at one to hike
• Vinnie made some great coffee on his little traveling stove
  • Don and Vinnie put in some heavy cream and a little coconut oil
  • Don is huge on intermittent fasting