Food Planning
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Being prepared with adequate and high quality food can make or break your climbing trip with Exum. Climbers need a variety of simple sugars, carbohydrates, and proteins to maintain energy levels throughout a difficult day in the mountains. They also need foods that they enjoy to fuel the spirit when the summit seems so far away.

Other than privately arranged food for Teton climbs, Exum provides food only during Wind River Trips and Ski and Snowboard Mountaineering Adventures. Food during these trips is provided only during days and nights at camp. This leaves you with the task of sifting through the options to figure out what will work best. We hope this page will help. Please let us know if you have additional questions.

Breakfast  Planning the perfect breakfast is difficult because how often do you wake up at three in the morning and eat a breakfast fortified enough to get you through half the day? For those early morning starts at the Exum Hut, or even before a day climb, select foods that are easy to digest like instant oatmeal and other cereals, pop-tarts, cereal bars, canned or fresh fruit, bring dried or fresh fruit, granola, instant oatmeal, tea, and hot cider. Hut meals are prepared with boiling water only. No separate cooking is feasible.

Lunch  Ideal lunch food selections and quantities for all activities are very similar. They vary only with climb duration and desire for lightness. We do not offer boiling water at lunch, so lunches and snacks must be hand food. Try bagels, tortillas, cheese, crackers, granola, energy bars, candy bars, hard candy, mixed nuts, beef/turkey jerky, sandwiches, subs, dried fruit or fresh fruit, raw vegetables, various G.O.R.P. mixes (good old raisins and peanuts), and drink mix. For each day in the mountains, bring two larger lunch portions and several smaller portions of snack food.

Dinner  The recommended option for dinner are prepared entrees in a pouch that can be placed in boiling water (several varieties are available at Dornan's in Moose or Harvest Bakery and Albertson's in Jackson). Other dinner ideas are instant soups, freeze dried entrees, and any items listed under lunch ideas. Don't forget hot drinks such as herbal tea. For Grand Teton climbs, you will need dinner food that can be prepared by adding boiling water to it in your own cup or bowl - we cannot actually cook at the hut. Hut meals are prepared with boiling water only. No separate cooking is feasible.