Imagine the following scenarios: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nFirst Story: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You are by yourself on a weekend trip through the Smoky Mountains, hiking with your 40 Liter Osprey Backpack with only the essentials. You hike out a few miles from the Alum Cave trailhead for the second day of your trip because your buddy Jared told you it was a beautiful trip with some really cool geological features along the way. It\u2019s only a 5-mile roundtrip, so you take your time rounding the rock faces and enjoy the sights, the sounds, the smells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You hike back to your spot at Walker Camp at around 5 PM and you figure its a good time to eat, exhausted from the second hike of the day. You find your designated stove and start up the fire. As you wait for your fire to burn more intensely, you pull out from your car a sealed package of steak from your cooler and begin seasoning it and cutting it up to get ready to cook. You have your veggies ready to boil in your pot of water resting on the grill-grate above the fire and throw them in. You finish with cooking and grab a plate and the book you are reading on this trip, \u201cOn The Road\u201d, by Jack Kerouac. The sun is cooling and you enjoy your well-deserved meal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second Story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You and your five mates hike out 5 miles across the snowy trails of the Canadian Rockies around Jasper National Park in April. The altitude keeps the air thin and the snow from melting, so you have to do your best to keep your breath as you trudge through the snow and ice. But you still have to keep up the pace because you are still a mile from your site and the sun will set within the hour. Exhausted and cold, but encouraged and joyful, you make it to your site with your buddies with about a half-hour of sunlight left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working quickly, you gather dead sticks that haven\u2019t touched the ground yet and lay them with care in the designated fire location at your primitive site. You work hard to make sure the embers are handled with care as your exhausted and frozen fingers keep on working. You get the fire going after many prayers and reap the benefits. Your friend pulls out the most beautiful thing you have ever seen: a package of seasoned rice and pre-cut, seasoned chicken breast. You get your light-weight pan as your other friend pulls out their foldable pot and fix up the grill-grate that your last friend was carrying. The meal is served and you stare in awe at the simple beauty before you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That steak at the Alum Cave trailhead and those chicken breasts in the middle of the Jasper wilderness will always be remembered as the most delicious and rewarding meals you have ever had, and in different circumstances, you would never be able to recreate them. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nThat is why grilling while camping is better than grilling otherwise. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nConclusion <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There are plenty <\/strong>of other recipes you can try out for your next camping trip, so please do some more research of your own and try them out. Whether you go camping in a campground or in a backcountry site, there are plenty of ways to cook exactly what you want to cook. Remember to consider the LNT principles when you are planning out your trip, and be considerate of your environment when you are in the wild. <\/p>\n\n\n\nGrilling and cooking in the wild is an experience like no other, and it is my hope that these tips and recipes can help you make that experience happen.
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