Author Jessie Blount

What’s more classy than a Manhattan? Drinking a Manhattan in the wilderness. (And one made with beer, to boot.) Mix and dehydrate your whiskey ahead of time so you won’t have to carry its liquid weight...

Powdered coconut cream will change your backpacking food world. It’s physically light, but packs a punch of flavor. Adding sumac to this soup’s spice profile brightens dark winter nights in camp and fresh...

Happy New Year, friends! One of my 2014 resolutions is to eat well. I’m not talking about eating kale three times a day (well, maybe I am, but only because kale is the bomb dot com); I’m talking about...

On the Appalachian Trail, I met a friendly through-hiker named Lunch Box. When I asked about the origin of his name, he pulled a beat-up, kitschy tin lunch box out of his pack and handed it to me. “Check...

Somehow it’s easier to wake up when there’s a trail before me. I might have gotten in to camp too late. My sleeping bag might be dewy. I might have to put on yesterday’s sweaty shorts. But I breathe...