After a whole day's exercise and breathing fresh air, people's appetite is often wide open, and eating becomes a real pleasure of camping-; In the wild, food is the fuel and driving force, and it is necessary to replenish your exhausted calories. If your diet is not only nutritious, but also light, simple and easy to prepare, then the energy and energy of exercise and personal pleasure will be greatly enhanced.
Although there are half-baked noodles or burnt main dishes, camping food rarely tastes bad. However, choosing nutritious food, estimating the appropriate amount and arranging recipes for long trips can test the endurance and self-confidence of most experienced adventurers. A healthy and nutritious diet and a variety of recipes are the pillars of everything from firm belief to safe decision-making in the wild. On the contrary, monotonous, inappropriate and not rich recipes can only lead to insufficient exercise energy and constant quarrels during the journey. Ironically, food is often an aspect that is often neglected in the preparation of travel.
Food is an important logistics supply. The key point is that you must have enough food, but the food is also very heavy, so it is easy for you to overestimate your calorie demand. Warning you in advance: no matter how hard you try, the food supply always seems inappropriate. Either too much, or too little, the number is wrong. Exhausted in cold weather, I climbed up the hill but had nothing to eat, so I had to starve, but I burped all the way down the hill in a sunny afternoon. Gobbling last autumn does not guarantee adequate food and energy this summer.
you can never make the amount of food just right, but you can try to make it close to the demand. Generally speaking, an adult man weighing 7 kg needs about 1 kg of dehydrated food every day, and an adult woman weighing 55 kg needs about .9 kg of dehydrated food every day. If you bring meat, cheese or any canned food, increase your daily food budget appropriately, because these things are much heavier than dehydrated food. If you choose freeze-dried food, reduce the amount of food appropriately. If you insist on recording the daily food supply during various trips, it will be of great benefit to your preparation of recipes before traveling in the future.
"Six Don 'ts" for camping food
Try to save money when purchasing food
Choose food from the corner fast food market
Eat less to achieve the goal of dieting and losing weight
Try to improve your companions' eating habits by bringing only healthy food
Forget to bring
on the road to feed animals or waste drinking water
Usually, In fact, there is no need to follow this bland and unhealthy feeding guideline.
if you are willing to take the time to dehydrate food, find a meat substitute in your diet and spend some time cooking in the camp, you may eat as much as you do at home. Investing in a food dehydration dryer can reduce the cooking cost of many years of field trips, greatly reduce the travel expenses, and thus recover the investment. Fruits, vegetables, snacks, condiments and even the whole main course can be dehydrated and dried, and then stored for the trip.
even if there is no dehydration dryer, you can prepare decent and nutritious wild food from the food you can buy at random in ordinary (relatively inexpensive) shops. Think about what you like to eat at home at ordinary times, choose the part suitable for field trip, and consider such restrictive factors-; The length of travel time, the need for replenishment, the shortening of cooking time, the supply of drinking water and so on.
why not make noodles, dried peppers, stew or burritos like you eat at home? Dehydrated noodle seasoning, fried beans, salads and other things eaten at home can be made into food like those eaten at home by adding hot water in the wild. A small amount of fresh condiments makes the food in the camp taste better. The prepackaged rice and noodles bought in the store can also make delicious food. Soup bags and seasoning bags are additions to rich recipes and are light in weight.
If you eat prepackaged food, you can still add some carefully selected fresh vegetables to make it taste better and more nutritious, such as onions, garlic, carrots and cabbage. Bring a complete set of condiments. Solid condiments include salt, minced garlic, pepper, cumin, curry powder, mint and cinnamon. Some light condiments (such as mustard, soy sauce, spicy soy sauce, etc.) add flavor without occupying space, and put them in leak-proof plastic bottles with screw caps.
the most effective way to lead to no interest in food is to put up with a monotonous diet. We should try our best to establish an alternate diet structure based on different kinds of staple foods (pasta, rice, beans and cereals), prepare all kinds of snacks to eat on the road, buy several kinds of cheese (cheese is preserved for a long time), including hot and cold cereals, taste a dessert from time to time, and increase food rewards when morale needs to be boosted.
Before going out, try to leave as much rubbish as possible and repackage the glass products or things in the paper box (use sealed plastic bags or tie a knot instead of using ropes, which can eliminate the string belts that seem to be everywhere around the camp). Plan your menu to avoid leftovers, or use it later to minimize wild garbage.
Attachment: Cooking equipment
You can look at the important factors in camping cooking from different angles. Most backpackers choose the camping menu in a spartan manner. Or go on the road without stove, fruit, breakfast oatmeal and lump food, which is feasible in hot summer, because the last thing you want to eat after a long hike in summer is hot food. Or, if you think these methods are unnecessary self-torture, you can arrange a gourmet's camp kitchen and regard cooking as an important part of backpacking experience. For most hungry travelers, simply preparing a prepared can of breakfast and dinner is quite appropriate, as long as the amount is enough.
In the simplest way, your camp kitchen may be just one or two portable fuel tanks (filled with butyl hydrocarbon or propane) for field use, a burner that can be screwed on the tank, a small pot and a spoon. In fact, with such pocket-sized "kitchen" equipment, you can cook about 1 kg of food slowly. A windshield, a blackened pot and a heat deflector can further improve the efficiency of any stove. Combining them will shorten your cooking time by half. People who pay attention to diet will be glad to hear that a traveling stove with two burners will be available soon, and you can choose any kind of outdoor stoves, double-layer pots and coffee makers you want. But in that case, you'd better probably take a simple trip.
shelter
shelter is the second most important field necessity after food. Most people think of tents when they mention field protection. It is important to choose a tent suitable for the weather and the number of people traveling with you. For example, four people may need a big dome tent and several tarpaulins for cooking and storage in rainy days, while one person traveling in the desert may need a tight and lightweight mosquito-proof tent or a small poncho. The longer the travel time, the more remote the route, the more likely it is to make a mistake on the protective equipment, because it may be hit by a sudden and long-lasting storm, and leaving the path is not an option.
It's best if your sleeping bag is warmer than the sleeping bag you need where you are going, so you may be ventilated, which is much better than shivering in your sleeping bag for warmth. The feeling of being safe, secure, protected and dry is very important to rest at night and restore your strength. It makes you sleep more deeply and prevents you from getting sick in cold weather. Choosing a suitable and warm sleeping bag also allows you to move more freely, because you can take off heavy clothes and just wear thin, comfortable and easy-to-dry pajamas.
Clothing
The temperature, weather and the heat emitted by the human body vary greatly within 24 hours a day, so it is very meaningful and important to choose outdoor clothing that adapts to various situations. Outdoor clothing needs to be multifunctional, so that you can breathe freely during hiking during the day, dry quickly after being soaked with sweat, keep warm when the temperature is low in the morning and evening, and shelter from the wind and rain when the wind blows and the rain pours. Because it is impossible for adventure travelers to bring a wardrobe of clothes, the only way to adapt to various necessary functions is to wear several layers of clothes with different functions at the same time: almost nothing to wear in hot weather, all when you need all kinds of protection. Most modern outdoor clothes are designed and manufactured according to these hierarchical structures.
The undergarment closest to the skin uses body temperature to take away water from the body, which can quickly dry after exercise. These thin underwear are covered with thicker interlayer clothes. Sweaters and vests can form a stagnant air layer between you and your surroundings, and there are usually several different combinations to wear them. On top of these clothes, you should wear protective clothes to protect you and the interlayer clothes inside. Generally speaking, the two most important layers are underwear and protective clothing, because they have to deal with the problems caused by sweaty skin and bad weather.
Outdoor clothes are usually made of synthetic fabrics, which hardly absorb water, such as polypropylene, polyester fiber (polyester) or specially treated nylon. These "hydrophobic fabrics" have a variety of dazzling brands, and they are just the general materials used as undergarments, because they dry quickly and can absorb moisture from the body. Synthetic fabrics are a wise choice in wet and rainy weather. Cotton, the most commonly used fiber in casual clothes, becomes quite cold once it is soaked and dries slowly. In the cold and humid climate, the coolness of cotton clothing evaporation will lower people's body temperature, which may bring danger when the body temperature drops to a certain extent. Therefore, cotton clothing should be avoided in the wild, except in hot desert areas, where cotton cloth is available. Use wool fabric with caution. Although it is warm, it is not light in weight and dries slowly. Wool may be the most common material for good socks, but in order to maximize comfort, backpackers need clothes to dry quickly, with only body heat. It seems that only high-tech synthetic fabric materials can meet this requirement, especially in wet conditions.
You should bring more clothes than you think you need in cold weather, because most of us are not used to staying outdoors 24 hours a day. On the road in the wild, between remote camps, you may not find a warm room at all-; Like the kind you find on the top of a ski resort or after a short day's trip-; So in order to stay comfortable and warm in all kinds of climates, you need more clothes. Ideally, even if you can't light a campfire or your tent leaks, you still have enough clothes to keep warm. Whether you spend an afternoon hiking or wandering in the wild for a month, you need enough clothes. Wet, tired and hungry experiences are inevitable, but at least you have a comfortable and warm journey time.
once you have used clothes with different functions, and know how to match clothes with different layers to achieve comfortable wearing under given conditions, you can be very safe even in dangerous bad weather. Outdoor clothing made by modern scientific and technological means will play a good role. You can stay warm and dry in most environments just by adding a weatherproof tent. The most important thing is to bring enough clothes in cold weather. A special jacket or a pair of mittens can bring more comfort, but the weight is very light.
Bottom underwear: If there is one layer of clothes that you can't save anyway, it is underwear close to the skin. In hot weather, a backpacker sweats a lot, and your underwear must be able to take the cool sweat away from your body and dry quickly without shivering in the camp at night. Therefore, most undergarments suitable for outdoor athletes are made of specially treated polyester fiber (polyester). This kind of fiber does not absorb moisture, and the fabric is also designed to take away moisture from the skin easily. Although underclothes are generally much cheaper than barrier clothing or protective clothing, they are very practical, ranging from jogging in summer to camping in winter. Long sleeve lapel zipper shirt is suitable for all kinds of weather and uses.
Interlayer clothing: Interlayer clothing between the bottom layer and the outer protective layer is not critical to your comfort, but they are still important, especially in bad weather or seasons. Wool-like fabric made of polyester fiber is the most popular isolation layer for outdoor travelers, because it is durable, can effectively create a stagnant air layer, and is easy to stack and dry quickly. Wool coats can also be effectively isolated, but they are much heavier, dry slowly and wear easily. Cold weather moves around the camp. Although a snow coat or vest filled with down or synthetic materials is heavier to carry, it is quite useful and worthwhile. However, it is redundant for summer travel. Down must be kept dry in wet weather.
protective layer: the outermost protective clothing is generally made of tightly woven nylon. This waterproof and breathable coat is versatile, because it can deal with moderate rain well, and it can be fully ventilated without taking a "sweat bath" after hiking. Waterproof and breathable raincoat can emit sweat and moisture through porous fabric materials, so you can keep the clothes dry after a storm or sweaty exercise by wearing it. The main disadvantage of this kind of protective clothing is its high price, and it can't resist the continuous rainstorm like the completely waterproof clothing with coating.
all protective coats, regardless of materials and seasons, should be easy to discharge water vapor and evaporate sweat, and have attached hoods to protect the head and avoid the possibility of heat loss. You should also be able to put on or take off protective pants easily without taking off your shoes. When climbing a mountain, protective pants can't limit the bending and lifting of your knees.
head and limbs protection: to be fully equipped, you also need a sun hat, winter hat, gloves and good quality socks. Wool products are generally used for hats, gloves and socks, but in fact polyester wool-like fabrics can provide better protection. However, the elasticity of polyester socks is not as good as wool socks, so it is necessary to choose the one that fits you best carefully. The important thing is that this kind of socks will dry overnight. Even if they are completely soaked, a pair of wool socks may take twice as long.
attachment: footwear
backpacking is nothing more than carrying loads and walking, both of which undoubtedly depend on the feet. Therefore, shoes can make or break your trip. Running shoes can be worn when the load is light, the journey is short and easy, but when the load is more than 1 kilograms, it is required to wear shoes that can keep your feet and play a more supportive role when hiking in rugged areas. The heavier the bag on your back and the harder the journey, the more you need stiff and supportive shoes.
The knowledge about the choice, fit and maintenance of shoes can form a whole book, so here we will select the main points and outline them. First of all, fit is undoubtedly the most important factor when choosing shoes. Each company's shoes and special shoes are limited by a certain shoe last (wooden shoe mold). If the shape of the shoe last made by the manufacturer doesn't match your foot shape, then the shoes made best in the world will only be an expensive, luxurious and lasting fold for you.