Lightweight Backpack Food Planning and Preparation - Online Classroom

Want to enjoy tasty satisfying meals on a backpack trip that you look forward to eating, with minimal weight, prep time, cleanup or smelly bulky trash to pack out, even if you aren't interested in making your own? Want tips for planning your backpacking menus to maintain your energy and avoid an energy crash?

In this class, long-time backpack foodies Cheryl Talbert and Sarah Hess will cover some tried-and-true ideas and tools for planning and prep before your trip, food for the trail and food prep at camp, and in the process, help you lighten up your food bag and food prep gear, and reduce your trail 'footprint'.  We'll share some specific food ideas for hot and cold breakfasts, lunches and dinners, review some basic principles for dehydrating your own trail meals, and cover the highlights of lightweight cooking gear as well as how to package and carry your food on the trail.  And we'll leave you with some online tools you can use to plan your own lightweight calorie-dense trail menus.    You'll come away with a lighter, more appealing food bag, as well as lots more confidence about how to plan your food menu for a given trip.

This class is for new and experienced backpackers who struggle with their food weight and/or with unsatisfying meal options, providing more in-depth information and tools for food planning and meal options;  and complements other Mountaineers seminars about how to prepare your own dehydrated and/or gourmet trail meals.

This session will be held on zoom and will begin promptly at 6:30PM and end at 8:30PM.  The zoom link will be sent to registered participants in the week before the seminar.