Hello from the Peach State!!

**GaHammockGuy** · 01-14-2010, 21:46

Greeting fellow hammockers... I am not a newbie to camping, in fact I love the outdoors. but I am a new convert! Both my camping buddy ( he will be here soon) and I have new hammocks that we are itching to start camping in.

Any tips would be great so I will be spending a lot of time here in the forum.

Wish me luck and I will see you on the trail. And I will have some great food with me since I usually become the cook. even back in my car-camping days, Good-Ole-Steve (my real name) always had the cooler full of breakfast food.

Any camping trip we went on the usual question was if I was to do the cooking. if not, I was quickly nominated to be the camp cook -which I didnt mind at all.

So, now that we are hiking into camp instead of driving up to the fire pit, the challenge is for me to find some light-weight and takes up little space but still tasty food to take on the trail.

And since I love a good challange and refuse to retire my chef's hat, I plan on making some tasty discoveries.

I also accept all tips and suggestions on tasty dishes to eat on the trail - under the tarp - and out of the back of a pickup.

I have even surprised some of my hunting buddies when I stayed in my climbing stand ALL DAY with only a couple pounds of food, water and a P-bottle. when I told them what I ate, they wish they had joined me instead of coming down from their stand to hoof it Mickey-Dees.

I just laugh and burp.

I am sure it will be a pleasure and a learning experience being here.
Good bless to all and dont forget to leave no sign.

-Steve

**trigger hurt** · 01-14-2010, 22:04

Welcome to the forums.

I'll never understand why you guys get to keep being the peach state. We grow more peaches than GA. Not fair.

As for food, I mostly car camp myself and day hike. I guess my favorite thing to do would be dehydrated hamburger, dehydrated veggie mix (corn, carrots, peas, onions), gravy mix, hot water and mashed potato flakes. Kind of a trail side cottage pie.

What I'd love to find is a way to make cherry or apple cobbler on the trail. Sometimes a sugary desert is what is called for at the end of the day.

**dakotaross** · 01-14-2010, 22:23

Can I go hiking/camping with you?

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**GaHammockGuy** · 01-14-2010, 22:32

Originally Posted by fulminated

What I'd love to find is a way to make cherry or apple cobbler on the trail. Sometimes a sugary desert is what is called for at the end of the day.

I will look into that. There are some Apple and Cherry pies that I have seen at the quickie store.... like .50 cents... they are GOOOOO-OOD but are loaded with the bad stuff..... but on the trail you can burn that off by lunch time the next day.

But I will think about that one and try to come up with something.

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**GaHammockGuy** · 01-14-2010, 22:37

hey fulminated

I tried to do some DIY dehydrated ground beef and it turned out great.... I was just scared to actually eat it. Where do you buy your dehydrated meat?

**ShadowAlpha** · 01-14-2010, 23:00

Welcome Chef!

I enjoy cooking on the smoker - never really done much of anything to write home about on the trail. But I do like to eat!

**GaHammockGuy** · 01-14-2010, 23:13

Originally Posted by dakotaross

Can I go hiking/camping with you?

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If you are serious, we can talk about it... up 575 is Amacolla Falls... and that sits next the chattahoochee national forrest which primitive camping and .... best of all.....

wait for it.....

wait for it.....

its FREE!!!

And I like that kind of camping..... about 1,5 hours once you get on 575.

**ShadowAlpha** · 01-14-2010, 23:47

Originally Posted by BaseKampChef

If you are serious, we can talk about it... up 575 is Amacolla Falls... and that sits next the chattahoochee national forrest which primitive camping and .... best of all.....

wait for it.....

wait for it.....

its FREE!!!

And I like that kind of camping..... about 1,5 hours once you get on 575.

Pick me up -- on your way when you pass Acworth!

**trigger hurt** · 01-15-2010, 06:56

Originally Posted by BaseKampChef

hey fulminated

I tried to do some DIY dehydrated ground beef and it turned out great.... I was just scared to actually eat it. Where do you buy your dehydrated meat?

I made it myself.

I was scared to eat it too, at first. But I was also hungry. No gastro-intestinal problems that I know of.

**gargoyle** · 01-15-2010, 09:04

All day in your treestand, nothing better! Welcome. Looking forward to your new recipes. There are a few threads around here with food and trail cooking.