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 ...

The backpacking meals you eat on the trail can make or break the experience, which is why trail food is one of my priorities when planning. Quality food is not only necessary to maintain energy and ...

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 ...

I’d heard and read really good things about the Radix Nutrition range of freeze-dried camping meals for backpackers and bikepackers, so I was excited to get stuck into the large menu of tasty sounding ...

Five meals are for sale online and in 35 brick and mortar stores The Durango-based company that makes dehydrated backpacking meals recently landed a contract with REI. Five of its meals – its green ...

Benjamin Tepler is a Senior Gear Editor at Outside with a focus on hiking and backpacking equipment. As a former food critic, he is a strong advocate for the advancement of better-tasting backpacking ...

From brewing the perfect cup of coffee at the campground to rehydrating the best backpacking meals in an instant, having a reliable cooking system to boil water makes all the difference when camping.

A symphony of flavor with each chop, as Martha Díaz deftly slices through cilantro and chayote, all in the name of diversifying outdoor recreation."Backpacking – when I started with my girlfriends, it ...

When I first started hiking and backpacking, I paid little regard to nutrition – just packed whatever was cheap, calorific, ...