Cooking and Nutrition

You’d think there was a simple answer to this, but it really depends. What you eat for breakfast depends on knowing what your body needs in the morning. It depends on external weather conditions, the number of daylight hours you have, the …

These instructions were contributed by regular sectionhiker.com reader Ken “Drip Dry” Holder. The cozies were co-developed by Ken and Lee “Revlee” Fields, shown above. A Cozy System for Freezer Bag Cooking My hiking buddy (Revlee) and I went through about 5 renditions …

Long-distance AT hikers love to obsess over pack weight and gear choices. Eventually any extended or thru-hike planning effort will come to a decision on what stove to bring. For me, this was quickly remedied by the statistics on what kind of …

Benefits of Dehydration Dehydrating your own backpacking meals is a great way to add variety to your backpacking menu, save money, and eat a healthy diet. But those benefits aside, I’ve found that dehydrated food help with backpack volume reduction, weight reduction, …

Dehydrating your food is an incredible way to add variety to your backpacking menu and improve the quality and quantity of food that you can bring along on strenuous hikes. Here’s a sample 9 day menu for the 100 mile Wilderness which …