Hi Jim,

Eating Paleo on backcountry trips is tough because real food is super heavy. I do a fair amount of backcountry activities including hiking, ski touring, mountain biking, and climbing. Usually in bear country, in the Canadian Rockies. You'll have to be bear smart and hang your food (and anything else with an odour, such as toothpaste) away from where you sleep. I usually bring a 10L dry bag and a rope for that (although many of the campsites in the Rockies have some type of bear-proof food storage). 

Some foods I've hiked with: sausages, pepperoni, jerky, avocados, fruit and dried fruit, nuts, coconut oil and coconut, butter, bacon, smoked salmon, and yams. Yams wrapped in aluminum foil are easy to cook on an open fire - throw them in the coals for awhile, and they're like candy. I also bring Cliff Bars, rice, and/or quinoa for use when the real food starts running out. One of these days I'm going to get a food dehydrator...

Cheers,
Brent


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On 2011-05-16, at 19:45 , Jim Swayze wrote:

> I need your advice.  I am going on a ten day backpacking trip in the wilderness of New Mexico next summer and I'd like to stay paleo.   I'm not going to worry about low carb at this point, though that'd be cool too.  We will be in bear territory.
> 
> The first thing most of you are going to say is pemmican.  Great idea, but I don't believe any of the pemmican suppliers I've used actually make shelf-stable pemmican.  It goes bad after about a week without refrigeration.  Make my own?  Is is going to be so smelly that it attracts bears, even up in a bear bag?
> 
> Dried fruit, larabars, small pouches of almond butter.
> 
> What else?
> 
> Thanks in advance.  I'm very excited about the trip!
> 
> Jim Swayze
> www.fireholecanyon.com