Lightweight and Ultralightweight Backpacking

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Food


The food you take in your pack will need to be more than you need. Take extra food, providing for having to remain out overnight unplanned.

If hiking, take sufficient food. Next, start to think about the weight and number of trail meals. How many extra meals might you need, worst case? Overnight? Enough for a thunderstorm to clear? Or snowstorm?

Now, are you backpacking, yet? If you plan for overnight, a weekend, or more, you are a backpacker.

What food items are carried by backpackers? Here are several web pages to answer that question.



The lightweight and ultralightweight backpacking enthusiasts have developed successful methods of backpacking food preparation. These methods are not like at home because we do not want to carry a modern kitchen.

We manage by using techniques developed by backpackers, for backpackers.

I have listed some things possibly new to you: e.g. Freezer Bag Cooking, the Caldera Cone stove system, efficient alcohol stoves made by experienced backpackers, a white gas stove made by a backpacker, the Outback Oven Ultralight and the Banks Fry-Bake.

Each involves a different approach.



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