I count the day my wife said she’d like to go on an extended backpacking trip with me as one of the happiest of my life. And to a lesser degree, a stressful one. Kat eats gluten-free. On previous ...

Quality food is not only necessary to maintain energy and replenish calories, but it can bring a layer of comfort and joy to long hard days of trekking. Pre-packaged backpacking meals have improved ...

The problem with buying backpacking food off the shelf? Unlike a tent, pack, or pad, you can’t “try out” a dehydrated pouch ahead of time. It may sport a photo of artfully styled green chile mac and ...

Don’t Expect Perfection While the best meals I ate were truly heads above the worst, they weren’t perfect. It’s the nature of backpacking food, really—a freeze-dried or dehydrated meal that you ...

Figuring out what to eat on a camping or backpacking trip can become its own adventure, especially in the backcountry, when access to civilization is limited. Sure, there are plenty of tasty ...

Five meals are for sale online and in 35 brick and mortar stores The Durango-based company that makes dehydrated backpacking meals recently landed a contract with REI. Five of its meals – its green ...

A Durango-based company with ties to Boulder is now selling its dehydrated meals and instant lattes in Sprouts grocery stores nationwide. Farm to Summit, founded in 2021, focuses on creating healthy, ...

Louise Barton remembers the exact backpacking moment when her career path changed. “I’m a botanist by training. I started working for the Forest Service and we were in Yellowstone doing huge off-trail ...