Originally Posted by
moldy
I guess, by reading the questions, you have never hiked before. That question about how many hours it takes to do meal prep was the big tell. If it were expressed in seconds it would be more correct. My first question to you is; what is cooking?. If it's to boil water to hydrate some food. That's not cooking. Nor is heating up some packaged or canned food. That is the vast, and I mean vast amount of meal prep on the AT. Although, I saw a hunter roasting a rabbit once years ago over the camp fire years ago at a shelter, I guess he was cooking.