Camping?

yirara

For me, camping means I'm a bit short of money or there's no hotel near where I am. Pop up ultralight tent, I'm bound to have a thermos of hot water and a pack of dehydrated meal. Or just something I bought along the way while driving around. Not too keen on sleeping in a tent (side sleeper, and wide hip bones!), but for those rare occasions it's ok. I also use these meals if I'm fairly sure I might not be able to get something out and about or it's not to my taste. Used one when hiking Ben Nevis, some hikes in Zion NP, and will use 1-2 on Iceland soon.

Kabootom

This is something unbelievable, in due course of camping you gained weight. I think you are taking too much rest after having your meals, do a little bit of walk post meals

yirara

Kabootom wrote: »

This is something unbelievable, in due course of camping you gained weight. I think you are taking too much rest after having your meals, do a little bit of walk post meals

A little walk does not lead to magical calorie burns. Being in a calorie deficit does. However, all sorts of reasons can lead to calorie gain, including water weight gain which might be brought on by traveling, by stress, by eating more salt, by new type of exercise, by not sleeping so well, etc.

YellowD0gs

kshama2001 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Just another camping variation: I used to do a lot of canoe-camping with portages, week or 10 days at a time away from car/roads/stores, and took a lot of hippie-esque food that was *heavy* (think bulgar wheat with seasonings & protein, and that sort of thing). No refrigeration, no conveniences, but if you only have to carry it for a couple of miles or so at a time, it works. 😉 Burns plenty calories paddling/portaging for hours, too.

To me, a lot of the point of camping was getting to be places where one couldn't be in any other mode. If I'm gonna stay in civilization rather than backwoods, hotels are fine. But, I may be biased by having grown up in the country, where we didn't have to camp because the house was in nicer woods than most campgrounds . . . and I still live in a "more trees than people" setting these days, too.

I did the canoeing/portaging/camping thing for two weeks in Quebec the summer I was 14. It was amazing!

Calorie dense food was a priority. All I specifically remember was peanut butter and chocolate.

My son and I are doing an 8-day float through BWCA in Minnesota/Ontario in late July. Can't wait! Although there will be fish involved in the diet as well.

nossmf

AnnPT77 wrote: »

. . . then it occurred to me that I could advance-freeze cleaned plastic milk jugs full of something like herb tea, use them to keep the coolers cool, and have a tasty cold drink as they melted.

An added benefit of doing this is not having your food get soaked by melting ice water. This technique also works for afternoon outings to the beach or sports field.

@YellowD0gs I remember vividly the best meal I ever had camping was following a day of whitewater rafting, we threw out lines to catch wild salmon and roasted them immediately with wild potatoes and onions we dug up from the riverside. Even without butter, salt and all the other spices, the combination of fresh food plus exertion from the rafting provided all the flavor boost needed to make the meal so memorable, I can still taste it when I close my eyes over twenty years later!