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語源

In 1950, Gordon Herreid, the leader of the University of Alaska party to climb Mount Logan (the highest mountain in Canada), induced a baker in Fairbanks to make an indestructible high-energy bread for the group.

名詞

Logan bread (uncountable)

1. A dense, nutritious bread for backpacking made with honey, molasses, eggs, wholewheat flour, and assorted dried fruit and nuts.
   • 1962, Margaret E[lizabeth] Murie, “To the Head of the River”, in Two in the Far North, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 322:

     I managed to get a kind of stew made from dried beef-noodle soup, MPF, and potato granules, and we ate that with Logan bread and instant hot chocolate, and were warm and satisfied.

   • 1970, David Roberts, Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 97:

     This complicated system would have been absurd normally; but we watched each other distrustfully, and when we had to cut a piece of Logan bread or pour cereal out of a bag, we did so with painstaking care.

   • 1993, Fred Beckey, “Two Contrasting Expeditions: Success and Tragedy in July 1967”, in Mount McKinley: Icy Crown of North America, Seattle, Wash.: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, part II (The Last Half Century: A Surge of Popularity and Accidents), page 198:

     For the three south face routes, Everett had worked out a 700–man-day food list. To begin with, there were forty loaves of Logan bread—a most popular item—baked in advance.

   • 2009, Chic Scott, “The Great Communicator”, in Deep Powder and Steep Rock: The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser, Banff, Alta.: Assiniboine Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 177:

     Laura Gardner—the wife of J.S. “Smitty” Gardner, Hans’ doctor—spent weeks baking dozens of loaves of what was called Logan bread, a heavy, nourishing bread suitable for an easy breakfast meal.

   • 2014, PearlAnn Reichwein, “Canada’s Alpine Club”, in Climber’s Paradise: Making Canada’s Mountain Parks, 1906–1974, Edmonton, Alta.: The University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 56:

     Moreover, three innovations introduced by the Mount Logan expedition—the single-pole Logan tent, willow wands for route marking, and nutritious Logan bread—were adopted by other expeditions in decades to follow.

   • 2014, Barry Blanchard, “The Cassin”, in The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains, Ventura, Calif.: Patagonia, →ISBN, page 241:

     Kevin and I spent hours in my mom’s kitchen baking Logan bread and cutting it into one-man/one-day rations and slathering it with butter.

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