Section Hiking the Appalachian Trail

Midway in our 2011 section hike of the Appalachian Trail, we lost our appetite and felt a bit lethargic. If you followed our adventure in ...

While shopping at a local Target department store, we were browsed the food aisles looking for possible backpacking fare. While standing i...

Laying on the desk atop a pile of used food wrappers is the blue and white plastic from a Sunbelt Fudge Dipped Chocolate Chip chewy granola...

We started a new resource for sections hikers: an  Appalachian Trail list of Yelp reviews for delis, grocers, and other similar attraction...

We discovered this good overview video on hiking food on YouTube. Most of what the narrator describes is what we also take on our section hi...

One of the pleasant surprises hiking the Appalachian Trail through New jersey was the discovery that a bear container wasn't absolutel...

We have already begun buying and building our meal packets for our upcoming 10-day section hike of the Appalachian Trail in New Jersey and N...

One of the most important skills for a section hiker to master before setting off on a section hike of the Appalachian Trail is bear bagging...

Restocking the office pantry a week ago, we grabbed our usual half dozen pouches of tuna. We like tuna pouches for both office and trail du...

During our 2010 section hike along the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania, we resupplied at Hennicle's Market in Fayetteville, PA. Henic...

We were at Big Lots the other day and saw some packs of Hungry Jack Cheesy Homestyle Easy Mash'd Potatoes for just sixty cents. While in...

After lunch today we rummaged in our office food cache for something sweet for desert. Among the various little foil pouches from our recent...

Today's trail food experiment was a "two fer." We combined two experiments into one. The trail food candidate was Disney Freez...

Another grocer, another load of trail food candidates. This trip netted us a good selection of "add hot water" products from Knorr...

At lunch today we tried Justin's Organic Honey Peanut Butter , which we found at a nearby Whole Foods. Justin's Organic Honey Peanut...

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Simply Organic's Chipotle Black Bean Dip mix made the cut for being trail food on this year...

Today we sampled Nile Spice Split Pea Soup for lunch. After being somewhat disappointed with Nile Spice Red Beans & Rice Soup earlier ...

Today for lunch, we sampled Whole Foods Vegetarian Chili Mix. In their bulk bins, Whole Foods offers a dehydrated vegetarian chili mix that...

A recent trip to our local Whole Foods market netted us some possible candidates for tasty, satisfying trail food. One product was Nile Spic...

Just added Sarah Kirkconnell's trail kitchen video on YouTube to the video slide show in the right-side information pane. Sarah is the ...