Backcountry Cooking Seminar – Learn to Make (and Taste Test!) Backpacking Food

OVERVIEW

If you want to learn some basics, conventions, tips, and tricks in backpacking food, then this is the trip for you! We’ll be making a variety of different meals stemming from a few different philosophies – cheap-do-it-yourself, Mountain House, dry-food-for-life, let’s-just-pack-the-whole-kitchen, etc. We’ll head up to Hawksbill so we can have some nice scenery as we learn to cook.

Come hungry and ready to eat some food! The idea is for it to be family style where we share all the different dishes after we’ve made them.

There is a $10 fee for this trip to cover the cost of food.

You bring:
– Water for yourself to drink
– Shoes to hike in
– Jacket
– 1L of water for the group to cook
– Utensil of choice (spoon/fork/knife)
– Dish of choice (mug/plate/bowl)
– $10 trip fee

We will leave Charlottesville at 2pm and should be back in town by 7pm. The Hawksbill hike is about 2 miles roundtrip and is not too terribly challenging. There’s a killer view at the top plus a nice shelter.