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2019 Best Backpacking Food – simple and nutritious

September 26, 2019/67 Comments/by Alan Dixon

Keep it simple, nutritious and save weight: I take inexpensive trail foods which are both tasty and nutritious. Specifically, foods that give you calories, protein, good fats, vitamins and other micro nutrients. This keeps you healthy and cruising along the trail with a spring in your step. Just as important…

The Best Hydration – Drink When Thirsty

April 27, 2017/43 Comments/by Alan Dixon

Drink When Thirsty debunks the many myths about hydration and dehydration like “If you are thirsty, it’s already too late” and “If your urine is yellow, you are dehydrated.” This article suggests that Drink When Thirsty is the best and healthiest strategy for hydration during exercise.

Bottle Breather for Sawyer Micro Squeeze Filter

New Lighter Sawyer Micro Squeeze Filter & Game Changer Smart Water Bottle Adapter!

The new mid-sized Sawyer Micro Squeeze Filter and new pouch is 1/2 the weight of their old system. The game-changer “Bottle Breather” makes it easy peazy to drink from a filter on Smart Water bottle.

Trail Designs Kojin Ultralight Alcohol Stove Review

cooking & stoves

Based on extensive field and lab testing, I believe that the Trail Designs Kojin Ultralight Alcohol Stove is the best alcohol stove system for ultralight backpacking (when paired with a Caldera or TriTi Cone). The new Kojin stove is incredibly…

Review of Sawyer Select S2 Water Purifier – fast, effective virus & chemical removal

Hydration, Water Purification

Viruses, pesticides & harmful chemicals in water are a concern for international hikers, and even areas in the US! Sadly, until recently there were no inexpensive & lightweight water purifiers that could handle all these contaminates.…

Nutritious Backpacking Meal Recipes

Backpacking Food, Beginners, Skills

These tasty and nutritious backpacking meal recipes are healthier, have more calories and cost less than commercial, freeze dried backpacking meals. Keep it simple — there are enough nutritious backpacking meal recipes here to provide sufficient daily variety to keep meals fun and interesting. But there aren't so many recipes that I spend too much time buying ingredients and assembling a large meal inventory.

Best Cheap 25 cent Backpacking Gear

Backpacking Food, cooking & stoves, Recommended Gear, Skills

The Best Cheap $0.25 Backpacking Gear in my kit are Pint Ziploc Freezer Bags. They are a perfect size and have a ton of uses. I’ve used them to protect my iPhone and other expensive equipment packrafting in Alaska, rafting down the Grand Canyon in winter, trekking in Patagonia and the rain forests of New Zealand. Surprisingly, they are virtually unknown and you won’t find them on grocery store shelves.

Best Backpacking Stove System – Trail Designs Caldera vs. JetBoil

cooking & stoves, Recommended Gear

Best Backpacking Stoves: Trail Designs Caldera, the best alcohol stove system, and JetBoil, the best canister stove system. What makes these systems “best” is that they are fuel efficient, wind-resistant, stable and stow into a small package. Which is the best for you?...

Quick ways to reduce backpack weight

Backpacking Food, Backpacks, Beginners, Hydration, Sleeping Bags & Quilts, Tents Tarps Shelters

Want to shed backpack weight with the minimum of effort? The following are quick ways to reduce backpack weight. A few may surprise you...

Backpacking Food List – Simple and Nutritious for 7 days

Backpacking Food, Beginners

NEW June 2016 - Meal Recipes are Posted. See Nutritious Backpacking Meal Recipes here This list is packed with nutritious backpacking food for a "week long" trip of 7 days 6 nights of dinners and breakfasts 7 days of lunches and daytime…

Cooking and Lightweight Backpacking Stoves

Backpacking Food

[fusion_text]Most ultralight backpackers take stoves. Just small light ones. When I hike with others, I take a stove and do civilized stuff like make coffee & tea and hot dinners. Sometimes, especially when I solo, I go ultra simple with…

How much food should I take? The detailed answer

Backpacking Food, Beginners

There is no exact answer to this question. In my "The Best Backpacking Food - simple and nutritious", I threw out the best guess of 1.4 to 1.7 lb of food per day. But how but much food you need depends on who you are and what you do. 2015…

Backcountry Tea – loose leaf, connoisseur style

Backpacking Food

Most hikers are used to caffeine in the morning. Interrupting that habit makes for grumpy hikers who are not the best trail company. Caffeine pills help, but do not provide the same emotional (some would say spiritual) comfort of wrapping your…

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