Cooking in the backcountry is a delicate balance of luxury and weight-savings. Will a plastic, $5 spork suffice? Probably, but we'd rather dine in style. We gorged on cozy pasta dinners, sipped canned ...

My backpacking trips tend to involve two markedly different approaches to eating. If I’m backpacking alone, I favor dehydrated camping meals (usually Firepot Mac n’ Greens) that I can whip up quickly ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. I’m a former professional chef and ...

The MSR Switch Stove System is an integrated ultralight backpacking stove that can cook with an included pot, or any ...

The other day I wrote an article on cooking while backpacking. Right after writing it I was at the July 4th Fireman’s Breakfast in Middleton and saw Steve Weston who is a really good chef and ...

One of the big treats when camping is the eating. You’re be hiking hard and as they say, food always tastes better in the great outdoors. We all know this is true so why do we barely sustain on some ...

KINTLA LAKE – When the microwave-sized box showed up at my door, I suspected my brother was crazy. When I read the Excaliber “Nourish Life” Dehydration Guide, I was certain. We’d spent all winter and ...

Jessie Krebs is a former Air Force S.E.R.E (survival, evasion, resistance, and escape) instructor and owner of O.W.L.S. Skills, a school aiming to educate and empower women and other underrepresented ...

The other day I wrote a column on cooking while backpacking. Right after writing it I was at the July 4th Fireman’s Breakfast in Middleton and saw Steve Weston, who is a really good chef and ...