Recipe News: Recipes To Keep Hikers Fueled

Yes, it's true. You can, on occasion, manage to get a pizza delivered while backpacking the backcountry. All you need is a credit card, a robust phone signal and a willingness to hike to the hard road for your rendezvous with the delivery angel.
But more often than not, your phone will be as silent as a tomb, and your credit card will be more useful as an instrument for removing the barbed stingers of bees. In circumstances such as these, a large deluxe pizza - pineapple, no anchovies - is most likely to be enjoyed in your dreams.

But not necessarily; as the popularity of backcountry travel has grown, so has the number of delicious recipes that will satisfy not only the body's requirement for fuel but also the taste buds of the most discriminating deep-woods gourmand. And believe it or not, one of these is for pizza.

A Caloric Inferno

Hiking, even over the mild topography of Florida, expends a respectable number of calories. According to several different Web-based calculators, a 180-pound trekker burns in the neighborhood of 3,900 calories during the course of an eight-hour walk.

Includes recipes for:

GORP

CHICKEN AND RICE

BACKPACK POT ROAST

TRAIL PIZZA

Full article here.

January 20, 2008

Recipe News: Recipes To Keep Hikers Fueled