Post by: WapitiTalk1 on May 14, 2018, 11:14:54 AM
I carry the following:
Drink - 3 liter Platypus bladder in my pack. Filter is normally a Katadyn Hiker Pro pump filter to purify H2O, or sometimes, the Katadyn Base Camp filter.
Food - I don’t' each much breakfast but I usually have a breakfast cookie (Erin Baker) and a cup of coffee (G7 3-in-1 coffee packets). Day pack snacks/main lunch meal are all enclosed in a quart zip lock for each day and normally consist of (JIF PBtoGO or Starkist Tuna Packet on MRE bread, energy/protein bar(s), honey stinger waffles, pre-packed small jerky packets, trail mix, a couple of small snickers, and the little pre-packed wet ones). Evening meals consist of a compilation of Mountain House, Paleo Meals to Go, and some Backpacker's Pantry; I'll throw in a few packets of hot sauce for the meals if I remember.
Chow gear consists of a Jet Boil Zip, enough fuel canisters to last the trip, "long" titanium spork (gotta have the long one), and a GSI Outdoors cup for coffee.
Well, what's in your elk pack for food and drink?
Post by: kselkhunter on May 14, 2018, 11:34:12 AM
Filtration - Katadyn base camp.
Food
* Breakfast - I usually make breakfasts in advance. Typically protein rice krispies, or protein bars of some form. Some years I'll be lazy and pack in pop tarts. Starbucks via if I feel like coffee in the morning.
* Snacks. Various granola bars and honey stinger energy chews. Packaged sausages and cheese sticks sometimes as well.
* Lunch - Usually PBJ tortilla roll-ups, sometimes meat and cheese based. I like the Green Belly meal2go bars as well.
* Dinner - Mountain House meals. I worked there in college, so have tried every flavor, including the experimental ones that never see the market. So I know what I like there.
Drink - usually some Nuun tablets to replace electrolytes and flavor the water.
JetBoil - have a few of them, I think I use the Sumo the most.
Titanium cup for drinking.
If I'm with a group of guys for elk season, some years we've packed in my soft sided Yeti cooler full of frozen burgers/brats, eggs, etc. Those are much more extravagant eating elk hunts in the backcountry.
Post by: Crunchy on May 14, 2018, 11:56:38 AM
Snacks- PBJ, a bagel with creme cheese, candied nuts, and jerky.
Chow- hard to beat mountain house.
Post by: WI to WA on May 14, 2018, 01:00:16 PM
My meals consist of this:
Breakfast: Starbucks Via & Probar Whole Meal bar. These things are awesome & light and generally last me until my first snack.
Snacks & Lunch: Snickers. Really, I pack lots & lots of snickers bars & eat them all day. 250 calories a piece and they weigh next to nothing!
Dinner: Mountain House with a long blue REI spoon (actually just as light as titanium & if I lose it I'm only out $2.00). I also keep a ziplock of chili cheese fritos in camp to eat and crush up into my mountain house.
Pre-sleep: .75 Platy bag of whiskey and some Mike & Ikes. I am surprised whiskey hasn't made the list yet. Going to bed after a nice pull of something strong really helps everything. As long as you can ration this & not over do it on the first night, you're in good shape. I'm not a fan of hunting with people who are hungover or worse (being in the backcountry & all) so it really is just one good pull & then rest.
Liquids: For water I use a sawyer squeeze and another of my party brings a gravity filter for camp water. I also carry powdered Gatorade that I keep in one of my two smart water bottles. One bottle is just water and the other is always Gatorade -- the electrolytes are awesome after chasing something up a ridge.
It's true that by the end of the trip most of my limited food choices make me sick but it's easier to pack & it's all really light.
Post by: Holg3107 on May 14, 2018, 01:41:36 PM
Water - [1] 16oz. Nalgene for hiking, [1] 5 liter bota bag for camp water (optional depending on location)
Breakfast - [2] instant oatmeals, [2] starbucks vias
Lunch / Day Food - [1] Peanut butter / Honey / Bacon sandwich on whole wheat, [1] snickers bar, [1] fruit leather, [1] Goo energy pack, 3 oz. of dried apricotts or chocolate covered raisins, 2 oz. hard cheese, 3 oz. salami
Dinner - Mountain house, hot herbal tea (I like a hot beverage before bed), post workout drink.
Heres how I pack my day food from my 7 day solo hunt this year (bad pic but you get the idea) as well as all of my gear laid out for the same 7 day hunt (does not include dinners, not sure why?)
Post by: JimmyHoffa on May 14, 2018, 03:00:20 PM
Post by: Jake T on May 16, 2018, 11:38:48 AM
for snacks during the day i go with some combination of jerky, honey stinger, cliff bar, some other sort of bar, crackers, pep sticks, trail mix. basically something i don't have to sit down to cook and can eat while glassing or walking
dinner varies between mountain house, or heather's choice. sometimes i'll take some of those tuna foil packets and combine them with top ramen noodles. or tuna and instant rice. something that i just add hot water.
desert is some sort of candy. jelly beans, swedish fish, orange slices, etc. not a lot, just a little sugar before bed. then a pull (or two) from the whiskey bottle. somebody said it before, in moderation for sure.
i use a brunton stove and a steri pen
Post by: csaaphill on May 21, 2018, 08:03:59 PM
First time out was my downfall had tons of can goods in my pack ouch carrying :chuckle: but after that used like I said.
Now any more I just pack something in the cooler ham and cheese sandwich, or other slices meat. pop and maybe a candy bar or so.
Post by: pd on May 21, 2018, 08:47:37 PM
Awesome!!
Post by: yakimanoob on May 22, 2018, 07:00:07 PM
Gear:
- Jetboil Sol
- Ti cup from Snopeak
- Long spoon
- MSR Mugmate (except that I have the MUCH cheaper non-MSR version)
Breakfast:
- Instant oatmeal
- sometimes trail mix and honey added to the oatmeal
- Coffee
Lunch options:
- summer sausage
- jerky
- flatbread sammiches with peanut butter and honey
- fruit
- cheese and crakers
- anything i happen to have on hand when I'm leaving and have forgotten to plan lunches
Dinner:
- Mtn House (I keep trying other brands and keep getting disappointed. I haven't splurged on the high-end stuff like Heather's Choice yet, but I'm thinking about it).
After dinner:
- sometimes chocolate
- sometimes herbal tea
Post by: ScottE on May 27, 2018, 10:51:15 PM
Post by: Limhangerslayer on May 27, 2018, 11:04:54 PM
And of course Idahoan instant potatoes. Not an Itemizer, just did the basics.
Post by: colersu22 on May 28, 2018, 09:09:47 AM
Jetboil zip
3l platypus big zip in pack and for camp water
1 31oz nalgene
Long spork
One of the cheap reusable Starbucks cups
Steripen adventurer for filter
Breakfast
Instant oatmeal
Starbucks via
Lunch/snacks
Hard to stop and eat lunch so i mainly snack throughput the day
Fruit leather
Probar
Trail mix
Beef jerky
Those cliff bar gel shots
Honey stinger waffles
Jack links Beef and cheese sticks
Dinner
Some kind of meal like alpine aire, backpackers pantry or mountain house
Snickers
I pack everything in 1 gallon zip locks and have to force myself to eat everything. I started getting the backcountry fuel box when they first started a couple months ago and that thing is sweet, gives me a chance to try new things while I’m out. I like to make a bunch of 1 gallon bags so it can just be a grab and go deal and I know I need one for each day I’ll be out. I think I have 6 ready to go now and planning on making more for this upcoming season in a month or 2. They are nice to have ready for when me and my wife backpack in and camp during the summer too.
Post by: Stein on May 30, 2018, 10:14:58 AM
No breakfast except maybe coffee if I have time.
Lunch is nuts, meat, cheese either as a meal or snacked on.
Dinner is mountain house, homemade or some type of foil meat plus other stuff concoction.
I typically run a pretty serious calorie deficit hunting, but it works well for me. I usually don't have much of an appetite and it doesn't make sense to pack half the food back out.
Post by: boneill on May 31, 2018, 06:32:54 PM
In general this is what I typically pack:
Bfast- 2 packets oatmeal, sliced almonds, PB, honey, 1-2 Via coffee packets
Pre lunch snack- Some combo of GORP, Mini-Snickers, granola bar, jerkey/smoked steelhead, apple or orange/dried mango, apricots, dates, etc
Lunch- Tortilla, PB & J, or Tortilla, cream cheese, and summer sausage
Post Lunch Snack- Some combo of GORP, Mini Snickers, granola bar, jerkey/smoked steelhead, apple or orange/dried mango, apricots, dates, etc
Dinner- Ramen noodle packet (I don't use the spice packet), fresh or dried onion, garlic, carrots, green pepper, summer sausage. Snickers for desert. A few pulls from a flask of Makers Mark for a post dinner treat.
Water: Steri Pen, sometimes MSR water filter if I'm hunting in an area with cows or a lot of substrate in the water. If you haven't keyed in on the steri pen, I HIGHLY recommend one. I've used one in the backcountry for years, and I also travel internationally with it, makes drinking tap water safe and means you don't have to buy a bunch of plastic water bottles. I specifically remember one kayaking trip in Nepal where we literally saw locals dumping human feces by the bag full into the river we were getting our water from. No one ever got sick using just the steri pen.
Stove: MSR Whisperlight International. Always fires up, can burn just about any type of fuel and don't have to deal with the empty canisters. You can also cook on lower heat than a JetBoil, makes eggs a reality.
I find having fruits and veggies while in the backcountry make my dinners much more enjoyable....meat, cheese, and grains get pretty old pretty fast for me.
I enjoyed reading everyone else's posts. Always good to get new ideas!