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Is this the ultimate Cape Wrath Trail Menu?

9th April 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

A complete Cape Wrath Trail menu

As part of my 2016 Cape Wrath trail trip preparations, I decided it was time to re-examine my backpacking menu and take it away from fully processed freeze dried meals. Another aspect of my Cape Wrath Trail menu I wanted to develop was my need for a lot more energy than I thought I needed […]

Filed Under: Cape Wrath Trail 2016 Tagged With: backpacking food, nutrition, RDI, ultrapacking

Working on the Best Backpacking Food Menu

6th February 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

The most traditional backpacking food there is

Planning a good menu for backpacking food on an outdoor adventure is usually pretty simple: some trail mix, a couple of freeze-dried meals, a few energy bars, some morning mix (usually porridge) and you are set. The problems begin when we add any of the below elements to the trip: More than 3 days – […]

Filed Under: Cape Wrath Trail 2016 Tagged With: backpacking food, Cape Wrath Trail, fast hiking, Multi-Stage Ultra Marathon, RDI, recovery, ultra running

Why should you have a cozy and how to make one

15th August 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Simple cozy for my solo stove

Cooking outdoors is a source of great debates – the opinions are many, probably as many as there are backpackers, but there is a simple tool that most will agree upon: the use of a stove cozy. It is a small and light tool that does nothing but increase the efficiency of your pot and […]

Filed Under: Gear, Skills Tagged With: Backpacking, backpacking food, freeze dry, MYOG, stoves

4 Coffee Kits That Every Outdoors Enthusiast Needs To Know

25th July 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Hot and rich coffee in the outdoors, excellent

Coffee is one of those things that if you like it, you have a relationship with it: it must be made your way, you need it at the right time and if you skip your first coffee of the day, all is ruined. When we are outdoors, coffee seems to take an even bigger role […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Aeropress, alpkit kraku, backpacking food, bushbuddy ultra, cowboy coffee, esbit cubes, jeboil sumo, msr pocketrocket, msr reactor, msr windblower, nelgene, optimus crux, primu eta, snow peak hotlips, solo stove, starbucks via, vargo hexagon

Menu planning for Cape Wrath – an update

18th April 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Efficient breakfast as part of my Cape Wrath menu

As the date of my Cape Wrath trail adventure is coming close, I have one big issue to deal with (besides missing my family) – food and supplies. In terms of gear I’m pretty much sorted (just a few tweaks left) and gear tends to be easy when it comes to longer trips as the […]

Filed Under: Cape Wrath Trail 2015, Skills Tagged With: Aeropress, backpacking food, Battle Oats, breakfast, Cape Wrath, dinner, Expedition Foods, Harmony House, Kinlochewe, Raging Bull Meats, SiS night protein drink, trail mix

A true breakfast of champions when outdoors

28th February 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

Super breakfast ready and fully inviting

Getting a good breakfast when outdoors is vital – you need energy to fuel the day, a boost of sugar to shake off the night’s stiffness and some protein to help your much needed recovery from yesterday. Oh, and don’t forget – easy to make, easy to pack in and easy to pack out. So […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: backpacking food, chia seeds, Food, freeze dried meals, nutrition, organic breakfast, outdoors meals, semolina

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