freeze-dried meals and noodles in a cup can get old on a 10-day backcountry hunt?

Well I candidly doubt that most of us are capable of truly living off the land 100% in the backcountry, there are a lot of things you can

do to supplement your daily fare.

Pretty obviously, most of us fall into the hunter- category of that hunter-gatherer mentality, but that lifestyle, not that it was a choice, was bitterly hard.

A lot of hunters and gatherers starved. I'm no archaeologists, but as I understand it, it wasn't until humans began raising crops and domesticating edible animals that more people lived than died each year and populations

began growing. While in my late teens once several pals and I did a week-long horse pack trip across a

mountain range. We took salt, pepper, and a large container of bull's-eye barbecue

sauce, along with one potato per person to get us through the first evening.

The plan was to hunt.

Deer season wasn't open, nor was elk season, but there were turkeys, grouse, waterfowl, and fish.

We starved.

There were five of us actively attempting to bring in food all day, every day, including during the 5 to 10 miles of

travel we made. Now we look back on that trip with fond memories, but we still call it the starvation trip, and yes that's capitalized.

A couple of times we missed Grouse, we missed ducks, we couldn't catch fish. Twice we managed to take wild turkeys and that's all the

five of us had to eat over several days while covering a considerable amount of

distance each day to get across that

mountain range. We weren't nearly the foragers we thought we were. Today's

episode is about how to add food.

Meat usually, of course, let's call it as it is,

while hunting.

I'm older and wiser now, and I have more patience than I did then. With a bit of planning, there are several ways that one can do this.

First, though, let's go to our upfront Q&A section for a listener's question.

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