While I fluctuate between insisting I’m a vegetarian and subsequently caving at the smell of cooking bacon, my trail partners are bona-fide meat eaters—so much so that they won’t call something a “meal” unless there’s some sort of meat involved.
But, short of learning how to hunt, the options for getting some animal protein on the trail are few and far between.
Enter a slew of companies solving the stale-beef-jerky problem that plagues all trail carnivores hungry for something other than raisins and peanuts. Here’s how to get your meat fix outdoors—without having to set any traps.