CROSSWINDS: Traversing America's Best Wild Mountain Range 

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I hope you can go out some places in the great outdoors.

I agree ☝️

He got surgery a few months ago and had been recovering and doing well!

Perhaps formed of the last ice age?

I wanted to give it 3 thumbs up. Still watching.....Don't know how I missed this one.

Alex is doing great. Thanks for asking. The food bag is just a stuff sack. Not even sure what the size of it is. Thanks for watching, Deanna!

More likely chondromalacia patellae caused by the strenous climbs and descents.

Thanks David! I agree. It's an awesome mountain range.

That’s a cool idea.

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I can't speak to what everyone else does, but for me, convenience is the most important thing. If you've got suggestions for low-mess, no-cook, high-fat, low-carb, low-sugar, backpack-stable foods that you can live off of for a week (other than pemmican, cheese, or summer sausage), I'm all ears.

SUV RVing there’s a series videos by Gear Skeptic that breaks down the most dense high caloric backpacking food. He even includes spreadsheets with all of the foods. It might be worth checking out. He did a lot of research to come up with it. I found it quite interesting and informative. I learned about it on the UL backpacking subreddit.

@@SUVRVing I guess there's really two ways to look at the question: motivation and practicality. There are "mountains" of research and anecdotal practice over the last 10 years showing the short- and long-term benefits of high fat low carb eating. Of particular interest for hikers is lower inflammation and better healing, which are shown to improve greatly under lower blood insulin levels. But altering the diet on-trail only is unlikely to produce significant improvement. It follows then, that better quality hiking eats will grow from a positive experience with these foods at home. It may be possible to enjoy pemmican, cheese, and summer sausage with practice -- or not. But who doesn't like pot roast and tallowy gravy? Pack a 40oz wide-mouth titanium bottle and that's maybe 6000 calories. Sardines, tuna, and kipper snacks are just as tasty as cold pizza, according to some. Make almond flour crackers or tortillas and eat them with butter. Put MCT oil or butter in your morning joe . . . snack on macadamia nuts or almonds, etc, etc. I get it that this seems like too much bother for too little benefit. But consider what Ford Brewer, MD said about his own experience "oh yes, I was a marathoner and I was pre-diabetic" (or worse -- pre-CAD, pre-stroke, pre-Alzheimers . . .) With practice, improvement can be had with very little inconvenience, but it does require informed decision making!

Nuts, jerky, dried fruits, freeze dried veggies. I don't think carbs are an issue when you're working hard, and you do need the calories. I wondered why you didn't have a little stove for morning coffee/tea. Or a campfire. Makes camp so warm and homey.

@@SUVRVing maybe jar of coconut oil =D but Im afraid the oil will start dripping from the nose pores after several spoons .