Fueling your body properly is a key part of any hike. If you have a strong stomach and you’re only going on a short hike, you can eat almost anything. Head out for multiple days, however, and you’ll ...

The backpacking meals you eat on the trail can make or break the experience, which is why trail food is one of my priorities when planning. Quality food is not only necessary to maintain energy and ...

Freeze-dried backpacking food makes backcountry cooking easy. Here are our top picks for good eats, trailside.

I did not grow up in an outdoorsy family. We spent the occasional summer road-tripping through Colorado, sure, but I was just as likely to spend an entire school break playing Super Nintendo in my ...

One of my favorite parts of a backpacking trip is the food: It just hits different after a full day of hiking. As a previous backpacking guide who cooked for up to ten guests at a time, I love making ...

Ah, the call of the open range. The enduring pull of America’s wilderness, the rewarding views after a day spent climbing, hiking, and relaxing in the fresh air. The sweaty, hungry children, the bugs, ...

Food is often the number one topic on any backpacker’s mind. Alex Roddie taste tests mouth-watering backpacking meals. The ...

Whether it’s making your morning coffee or cooking a warm evening meal, a backpacking stove is an important part of your backcountry kitchen. To figure out which model provides the best performance ...

Backpacking is just like day hiking. Except instead of finishing the day by going home to a shower and a home-cooked meal, you camp alongside the trail, don’t shower, and eat someone’s best attempt at ...