Guidelines for planning river trip meal menus and prepping and packing food.
Packing food for camping on river trips poses some unique challenges: It’s a little like packing food for car camping, but you need to think about what will happen if your food is in a boat that flips at some point. Also, if you’re on a multi-day river trip—for three weeks if you’re on Grand … Read more
Accumulating river camp kitchen gear that you love to use is a long process of trial and error over the course of many river trips. Just when you think you have exactly the right system for corralling the kitchen trash, for example, somebody comes along with a fancy collapsible mesh container. To help accelerate the … Read more
Dutch oven cooking is a legendary part of river trip camping, especially for river outfitters running multi-day trips. Although campstove cooking and open fire grilling are the default for river trips because you often don’t have much time in camp, Dutch ovens make it possible to whip up delectable baked goods in the wild—and that … Read more
Note: This post was updated on April 13, 2022, to include new items and new categories of camp kitchen gear. We spend an inordinate amount of time on multi-day river trips thinking about how to make our camp kitchen more efficient—and by that we don’t necessarily mean minimalist. After all, if we wanted to travel … Read more
Most river rafters with experience on multi-day trips have a basic understanding of what’s required in terms of gear, food, and other basic supplies. But a multi-week trip raises the stakes quite a bit in terms of organizational needs and requirements. And nothing is more challenging than figuring out the food for a 20-plus-day trip. The … Read more