The Hiking Community & Discovering One Pan Wonders

Being a part of community is a key goal here at Hikeu. Our burning desire to be connected is the driving force behind this blog. We want to be known. Not just for our great guided hiking and backpacking trips, and not just for the amazing gear we will someday unveil, but for who we are as people.
Community has the potential to expand in so many different ways.
Thanks to the Hikeu Blog, Dicentra from Washington, happened upon us as she was surfing hiker blogs. Dicentra is more than an avid hiker. She is a hiker who loves to create backcountry meals that taste great and are good for you. Check her out at One Pan Wonders; Backcountry Cooking at its Finest. There you will find everything from beverages to dessert; breakfast to dinner. She even has sample menus to really simplify food planning on your next trip.

Best of all she has a cookbook in the works!

Hikeu has added many of her recipes and ideas to our food planning process already. Our goal is to feed our customers well; really well. Here at Hikeu we believe that hiking and backpacking is meant to be fun, safe and comfortable. We have the utmost respect and appreciation for our bodies. A strong, healthy, well-fed body is our vehicle of choice. What better way to fuel our glorious bodies to allow complete enjoyment and appreciation of the backcountry than with really great food?

Check out One Pan Wonders and let us know which recipe you're going to try first!

Hikeu Partners with Eddie's Energy Bars

Hikeu Adventure Guides is very pleased to announce our new partnership with Eddie's Energy Bars.

Here at Hikeu we are always looking for delicious, healthy, wholesome and LOCAL food to feed our hungry hikers. Special thanks goes out to Ann Zuccardy from The Vermont Shortbread Company for introducing me to Michael Adam's, the owner of Eddie's!

Hikeu will be using Eddie's Energy Bars for breakfast, snacks and dessert on all of our overnight backpacking trips. We will also have these yummy, homemade Eddie's Bars on-hand for day hikes as well.

Michael was recently commissioned by Backpacker Magazine to create an Eddie's Energy Bar using ingredients grown within 100-miles of Vermont's Long Trail. A daunting task, but easily accomplished by energy-bar-baker Michael Adams. Eddie's Green Mountain Bar features flour, cranberries, maple syrup and walnuts all grown right here in Vermont! I shared a Green Mountain Bar with Badmoon last night and it was great! Look for this interesting story about Eddie's Energy Bars in the October issue of Backpacker Magazine.

After hearing this story, I wanted in on the "make a bar for me" action. So Michael is off creating The Eddie's Hikeu Bar. The idea is to pack our special energy bar with loads of calories, making it perfect for ravenous hikers. Don't worry, Hikeu won't have exclusive rights to the bar. Look for it soon at eddiesenergy.com.

Great Food and Backpacking Memories

Here at Hikeu Adventure Guides we are gearing up for the upcoming backpacking and hiking season in Vermont. One of our primary goals is to feed our backpacking customers really well. So off we went in search of the healthiest, best tasting, easiest to prepare, organic backcountry food we could find. We found the winner! We ordered a bunch of food from Mary Janes Outpost and tonight we performed our first taste test. I had "Eat Your Veggies" Pasta and Badmoon had Sweet Red Bell Pepper Pasta. I made up a batch of her cornbread too. Everything was delicious! I couldn't finish mine, but that won't be a problem after putting in 10-15 miles on the Long Trail.

We were so inspired by the food that we set up our tent in the yard after dinner. Tonight we will sleep in our Pacific Crest Trail home, the Taj. Setting her up and crawling in to get everything situated filled me with strong memeries and incredible joy. No matter where the Taj sits, I am at home. I'm sure our neighbors are wondering what those crazy people at Hikeu Adventure Guides are up to tonight!

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