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I can answer only for northern Virginia, which I suppose is warmer than western Canada. If I left an intact ripe fruit on my patio overnight, it would not be intact by morning. A watermelon might be …

But even so, freeze dried food, dried food, dried fruit, cheese, crackers, bread, trail mix, and a few canned delicacies, will be the reliable staples for a trip of 2 weeks or so without resupply. … Furthermore, a diet of fresh food is too heavy to carry for a trip of more than a few days. The truly fail-safe extra food on a long trip is the body weight you can afford to loose. …

First step is to try to find out what, among what you have, they do like. Maybe they hate freeze dried beef stroganoff but like freeze dried spaghetti and meat balls. To the extent you can without b …

On the long trips, we have packs stuffed with food, tasty and freeze dried. No bear has ever approached us when we had our packs on, looking for food. … In our early days, before bear canisters were ubiqutous and in the era when hanging food was the norm, bears got into our food several times when we were camped. …

We have never hiked in temperatures that went up to 95 F, but we have taken oranges on much longer trips than 2-3 days, with no problem, with day-time temperatures in the low 80s, and very sunny skies …

I have eagerly consumed many accounts of early mountaineering expeditions in which the mountaineers always eagerly consumed Kendal Mint Cake (KMC). I got the impression that they would have found it u …

I looked first at bears to get a handle on this question, because it is well known that bears get a significant part of their caloric intake from berries. I should have looked first at berries! Acc …

Don't overthink this problem! I have decades of experience being in calorie debt every year, for two or so weeks at a time, at least twice a year, on backpacking trips (when younger), and I advise re …

You may scrupulously clean up as you have described, but many others may not have and spills and food droppings add up. … Before bear canisters became de rigeur, we hung our food and our garbage, our soap and our toothpaste. …

The disadvantage is that you carry more weight than if you had taken freeze-dried or dehydrated food. … Other advantages to not cooking: Freeze-dried food means a lot of trash to haul out. Cooking means washing up. …

(2) A bear grabbed my pack from beside my sleeping bag, ripped it open, removed and eviscerated several packages of freeze dried food, but stopped at a barrier of filthy clothes, under which one package … I am asking specifically about black bears, but would welcome answers about other predators at or near the top of the food chain. …

The most efficient "food" you can carry is the body fat you can afford to lose. In addition to getting fit for a two week backpacking trip, gaining a few extra pounds will help. … My answer would have been different for a longer trip. 18 days was our limit for the food budget I described. …

The material in Owlcation, Can Caffeine Kill? How It Impacts Animals, Plants, and the Environment, updated June 23, 2018, suggests that the safest thing to do with coffee grounds, relative to the envi …

The claim was that some mother bears in the Sierra would send their cubs up a tree and onto a smallish branch (a branch too small to carry the weight of an adult bear) to knock down a food bag. … The closest we came was seeing an adult climb up to a branch, and, holding on to the trunk, reach out and repeatedly whack the branch until it broke, depositing the food bag (ours!) on the ground. …

Several decades ago, we were three days from the trailhead with no food. Let's not get into why that happened, please. It is too embarrassing. …