My backpacking trips tend to involve two markedly different approaches to eating. If I’m backpacking alone, I favor dehydrated camping meals (usually Firepot Mac n’ Greens) that I can whip up quickly ...

Trevor Takara's best camping meal is ribeye steak and asparagus with garlic salt and black pepper, potatoes, peppers, Stubb's seasoning, and olive oil. Prep time: 45 minutes, all in camp—gotta make ...

While prepping a meal at a campsite (or picnic), it often attracts flies, wasps, ants, and other critters. Fortunately, you ...

Adam Roy is the executive editor of Backpacker. He lives in Colorado’s Front Range, where he spends his free time hiking, climbing, and running his home mountains. I’m a former professional chef and ...

Figuring out what to cook while camping can mean the difference between heading out the door or staying home. And choosing a delicious meal that everyone wants to eat can be the difference between ...

Although the smell of bacon cooking while camping is arguably one of the best smells, anything you cook out in the woods is going to taste amazing, assuming you have the right means to cook it.

Contrary to what your non-climbing friends may think, going cragging doesn't mean you have to subsist on trail mix. Camping stoves have come a long way from their bulky, inefficient origins, and can ...