We spoke with master food dehydrator and backpacking meal connoisseur Glenn McAllister, founder of Backpacking Chef and author of multiple backpacking meal recipe books and guides, to get an idea for ...

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 ...

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 ...