Thru Hike Recipes

This page will focus on recipes for multi-day hikes. Meals need to packable, lightweight, shelf-stable (can’t have them moldy after 1.5 days!), and provide enough energy to keep going. I’ll do my best to accurately list calories, fat, carbs, and protein.

For those who are new to multi-day hikes, fat content is a plus in these recipes. Fat is a source of dense calories which translates to providing a greater amount of energy per ounce of weight. Protein can help muscles recover from a day of hiking and carbs can help refuel muscles; the actual mechanisms are more complicated than this but this is essentially what it breaks down to for long hikes.

Dinner