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by Matthew Holliman » Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:38 pm

My favourite trail food for long dayhikes is leftover pizza. The bigger problem I find on those outings is drinking enough--I take lemonade/peach tea powder to mix in with stream water, which makes it much more palatable.

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by adventurer » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:06 pm

For me a long day hike is 7-12 hours. On these, I quite happily subsist on toasted bagels generously smeared with PB, Cliff bars, a small thermos of tea, and plenty of H2O.

If the hike is at altitude, I'll usually bring along a salami to pump up the calorie count.

After the hike, it's beer & pizza or a nice steak.

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by MoapaPk » Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:30 pm

I used to love cold pizza... and then came the staph food poisoning incident.

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by Clydascope » Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:08 pm

Loss of appetite at altitude?

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by charley » Tue Aug 17, 2010 7:36 pm

sounds like you need some changes
Try gorp but change it==cashews, craisins, and reeses pieces.
nuts that you like.
dried fruit do it yourself in the oven. try pineapple.
summer sausage and hard cheese.
A baggie full of some kind of cereal you can eat dry. frosted shedded wheat. fiber one :D
Rubbermaid container with fresh veggies. take some salt packets.
snickers works for my wife.

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by JasonH » Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:09 pm

FortMental wrote:A good salami is hard to beat.


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by Daria » Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:59 pm

The cold pizza thing I've tried a few times and wanted to puke after trying to eat some of those times, so I've developed a natural repulsion/resistance to future pizza options on the trail.


One thing I noticed some of my hiking friends carry is those energy drinks-monsters, and others. It seems they are effective, or are they? Maybe they are just a marketing hoax.

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by MoapaPk » Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:27 pm

Darija wrote: Maybe they are just a marketing hoax.


They are as effective as caffeine pills.

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by jrc » Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:43 pm

sweet, fruity type bagel with peanut butter and jelly or honey

regular or everything type bagel with some good cheese

hummus and/or pesto with naan

italian dried salami
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by no2haven » Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:02 pm

Grapes are my new favorite trail food...even on long backpacking trips. Put them at the top of the pack (or the top of the bear cannister) and you only smash a few. They are somewhat bulky, though, if space is an issue. Double bag if you're worried about leakage.

They're even better when you're a little dehydrated - they stay cool in the pack and are really refreshing. Plus, they don't make your fingers sticky.

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by Daria » Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:06 pm

A good apple or an orange has saved my sanity on a few occasions.

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by JasonH » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:19 pm

FortMental wrote:
JasonH wrote:
FortMental wrote:A good salami is hard to beat.


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I was wondering when someone would get that....

A Sharks fan. Go figure.


We are classy. 8)

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by cab » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:25 pm

I agree with no2haven. Grapes are my favorite trail food right now. They are a little bit heavy but sooo refreshing and a nice bit of flavor.

I also eat a lot of frozen pizza. I like using thin crust frozen pizzas (ones with BBQ sauce are the best, imo) because the thicker crust ones are usually really dry and make you drink all your water.

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by trekker » Tue Aug 17, 2010 11:53 pm

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This stuff is good. Never tried it until backpacking this summer and I found it to be much better than average trail mix.

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by Brad Marshall » Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:20 am

Darija wrote:There are limitations with the food you can pack, because you want to go as light as possible.


Agreed but if there's one thing I've learned about climbing it's that I enjoy the climb more taking food I can eat at altitude rather than just packing something that's light. I find the advantage of traveling lighter much less than that of carrying food I enjoy eating. Even on Denali I've carried in 2 pounds of peanut butter and rolls instead of some dehydrated crap I don't enjoy.

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