As they say, "go niche or go home" and I think that Paleo back-packing certainly qualifies as a solid niche audience! I for one would be interested :)

Great idea! I would love to make my own dehydrated meals for backpacking. I just don't have the time to experiment to get the quantities of food & water right. It would be great to have a site for sharing recipies. I am always amazzed at the total junk that thru hikers eat...how do they do it? Yet you can only eat so much jerkey!

Cool! That would be excellent!

No I don't think there's a need for that kind of site.

I don't see or hear a great clamoring for one either.

This btw is not to say I don't think you should make one. Just that you asked those particular questions.

I'd think that perhaps there wouldn't be enough stuff to cover/make into subject material. But I guess if you will build it they will come, right?

I would love a site like that! In a month, we will embark on a road trip/camping trip and would LOVE any advice about paleo camping, backpacking, etc. Have been hoping to come across something like that. Bonus points if you include info for kids, since my toddler doesn't have molars yet (making jerky and nuts big no-nos).

I too would be into a site like that. We're big campers and homers here, just went Paleo this week, so I'd love any info on this - great thoughts so far!

In recent times we have witnessed a proliferation of hundreds of bloggers, champions of the "Paleo Way Of Life", showing an extreme radicalism and not any real scientific argument or a minimun human evolutionary history knowledge to back them up, just as a response to a frustration forged after failure with hundreds of diets in his quest against their obesity problem. (They will never understand Paleo is not a "follow this rules"-Diet nor a low carb diet per se, is just a WAY, a kind of life filosophy)

And after my divagations, that will be unpopular for sure, I'll tell you that, honestly, I consider your idea as one of the most truly genuine, practical and related to the true spirit of "PALEO WAY OF LIFE" that I've seen. So all I can do is congratulate you on your project and encourage you into its achievement.

So please, keep us informed on your progression!!

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Cool idea, but I think it might be a little too specialized; would be great to see some bloggers post on this, but there probably isn't enough there to devote an entire site to that concept.

Yes, I'd love that! Focused on 'in the wilderness' that is.

I would love a site like that also. I'm going on a 4 day hiking trip in September. I have a dehydrator, but haven't used it yet.

Great Idea!

Haven't seen anything like that yet, though would be interested for sure.

As an Army reservist new to Paleo I am dreading the time when I have to live on a ration pack for even as little as a weekend - not sure how my body will react as basically they're designed to give you lots of calories but they are mainly through sugars. Be great to see what you're suggesting desertsnail! I could take my own supplies with me!

This would be awesome. And I think it could be expanded when you think of the Paleo lifestyle, not just Paleo eating. For me, "Paleo" has turned out to include trying to go barefoot as much as possible -- I would love to be able to hike barefoot, for example. It has also meant sleeping on the floor, not using soap or shampoo -- basically questioning a lot of modern assumptions about what is necessary. There is a lot to explore there, and there are people doing it, spread over many places, but not a focal point. You could provide that focus!

I think the niche for Paleo Backpacking might be too small as a site concept to attract a large audience, but could be included in a broader concept of Paleo Travel. I think you would do better with the broader concept with Paleo Backpacking as a serious subsection. Good luck with it.

Awesome thread, glad to see it resurrected. Any updates? Did this happen?

I went backpacking last summer and had to suffer with some rice. Bloat-o-rama. Nothing like sharing a tent with three other grain eaters... o_O

This could be a great resource. I also think you could extend the scope out to business travelers and folks who have to stay in hotels or such without access to a full kitchen. Make a comprehensive listing of restaurants where folks have had success adapting menu items. You could also have a list of Paleo-approved foods that can be purchased, though most of those tend toward cookies, faux granola, or jerky. You could have an urban traveler section and a trail traveler section.

I'm kinda surprised at the votes against it. Every trip I've made since going Paleo, I've had to think hard and prepare for the food portion of it.

A couple different things I'm being exposed to that make me interested in your concept.

1. Andrew at Evolvify embarking on his 77Zero expedition, subsisting primarily on pemmican.
2. Robb Wolf's well thought out answer about surviving the end of the world as we know it on episode 106
3. That new show on National Geographic, Doomsday Preppers
4. And finally, going on a 2-month cross-country roadtrip myself to promote the Primal Professional.

So ya. I'd be a subscriber =)

I for one would definitely be interested - I'm not a backpacker but I often work 13-hour days involving 10-12 miles of bike commuting to and from places without refrigeration (and I have to pack my own food because I'm too broke to eat out every day), so while technically I am in the middle of a major urban center, I might as well be in the woods for all the food that's available to me. I imagine that a website on paleo backpacking would have lots of super helpful stuff for me - and there have got to be other people in the same pickle.

I arrived on this thread because I was looking for that site.

Going Paleo (Primal Blueprint, specifically) helped me get healthy enough to go backpacking again. I don't want to give it up when I go backpacking.