Wish we could make it - we'll be down in the Chiricahuas.

Roger and I decided to spend the night assembling our new kitchen so we will be @ the Fort @ 8 AM rather than waiting at the TH.

I vote for Joels guitar being ported in!

Our group is down 1. My brother Trip can't make it so it will just be Roger and myself. Just in case total group size matters.

More beer for us!

Roger, Trip and myself are in.
We'll be camping near the TH friday night and will plan to be at the TH waiting for the group by 9:30 Saturday morning.

Just read the updates - our sitter won't be here till 8 am - which puts at Barnhardt 8:45am is we haul pumpkin... Don't want to hold all of you back, will talk to Michael and see what he wants to do - in and out the same trail? maybe set up a late shuttle with someone? Roger and I can hang @ Barnha...

@joe bartels Seems like the chicken might be one thats easier to just buy in the pouch and pack out the trash. We do frozen chicken quite a bit for the first night. Cook it and freeze it solid then pack it in the insulated camelbak and its just about thawed by dinner time. Would not do it in the su...

@rae-rae
Thanks for the great ideas! I haven't done pasta yet and your tips will be most helpful! The pesto sounds delicious!

If canned chicken dehydrates well then I'm thinking that freshly cooked chicken would as well?

te-wa wrote: Dale's Pale Ale

Dales and Modus Hoperandi are my two favorite cans. Such yummy tasty hoppiness.

A friend used to dehydrate the spaghetti sauce for his trips. I've done the spaghetti sauce, but have yet to try the sauce and noodles cooked and then dehydrated together. So far i've done a boatload of vegetables: broccoli, onion, pepper, mushroom, carrot, celery, tomato, zuchini, squash, potato, ...

te-wa wrote:http://www.trailcooking.com

Thanks! In all of my dehy-googling, i've got no idea how I haven't come across this site before.

joe bartels wrote:Check out Sirena's Saguaro Fruit Harvest

Saguaro Fruit Roll-ups! Yummy! Though i'm not sure where i'd get the fruit.

I thought for sure there'd be a Dehydrator thread on here already but I haven't seen one so here it goes...


If you use a dehydrator, whats the best stuff you've dried or the best recipe using your dried ingredients? Any horror stories on things you've tried and won't do again?

Really 53% don't enhance their hike with any substance? I think we've got quite a few closet partakers on this board. I can think of few things better than a camp cocktail around the fire at night and a cup of french press coffee with a side of greens in the morning. Though we've been known to have ...

@te-wa
We're all set for Saturday morning at 8 AM at casino parking lot. Two questions though: 1) is there any water source near the camp area? 2) Will my subaru outback make it to the TH or is high clearance required?
thanks -

Hah! No - but glad to know that my bf isn't the only one so easily woo'ed. Woman Good. Beer Good. Woman with Beer. More Better Good.

There may even be an extra bottle or two of freshly bottled homebrew waiting after the hike...

nonot wrote: You don't know the secret HAZ handshake? Don't be surprised if they pretend they don't know you!

Sadly i do not. But i do make a good camp cocktail so hopefully that will get me in.

te-wa, We're in if you'll have us. We've backpacked plenty but this will be our first with any hikeaz'ers so if there's any protocol we should be aware of lemme know. i have been out in this range for many trips, and discovered some very cool things about the area. Id like to share them with you. bu...

I've been wanting to hike in the mazatzals but haven't yet made it yet. It'd be nice to tag along with someone familiar with the area for my first trip.... what time would you be leaving from the TH? And how big of a group are you looking at? It'd be me and my boyfriend if we went... We're both inte...