Lightweight Backpack Food Planning and Preparation - Online Classroom

This session will be held on zoom, and will start promptly at 6:30PM and end around 8:30PM.  The link to join the zoom will be sent to you the week before the session.  This seminar will be most effective if you are able to join from a laptop or tablet with a good-sized screen, rather than a phone, so that you can see the presentation materials.

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? This class will include 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'. You will also get some resources for ordering inexpensive instant and dehydrated staples to build into easy and deliciouse recipes. 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.

The lecture will be supplemented with an optional in-person session where students will be encouraged to use tips and tools from the seminar to plan a trail menu for an actual trip, to share some of your favorite trail food items, and to see and taste favorites from your classmmates in a potluck format.