Article: BEYOND HOT DOGS ; Locals innovate to take gourmet-inspired meals into the great outdoors

Backpacking and car camping are two distinct ways of enjoying Colorado's mountains, and both offer their own challenges and rewards.

Too often, though, food is more of a challenge than a reward for both groups, with backpackers settling for dry energy bars and car campers making do with mangy hot dogs.

But you don't have to exercise your gag reflex along with your hiking muscles, say folks who have figured out how to eat well in the wild.

Steve Balsiger, once chair of the local chapter of the Colorado Mountain Club and a self-described "old school" backpacker and climber, said he's seen a trend among young backpackers to go as light as possible, as far as possible, with food an ...

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