given my name this question should surprise; anyone know of a good cheese that will last my days on the trail without going bad??? and anybody kjnow of an ultralight pair of snowshoes???
cheeserTOM
Of cheese and snowshoes
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#3
extra sharp cheddar stays the best of conventional cheese or single serve cheese food needs no refrigeration (google minimus) Northern Lites snowshoes are the only light ones out there google for company and 1 dealer in MI
george
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#4
Cheese in those little round red wax thingies will keep forever. The key to not getting your cheese moldy, unless you like it blue, is to not touch it. One finger print and its done for.
Never tried maggot cheese but I here its good.
BW
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#5
Hi…Kraft makes those indiv. wrapped cheese slices mentioned above. I usually refriderate them, but I’ve seen similar kinds (store brand) not refrigerated. Maybe give them a try before you leave. They aren’t fancy tasting, (kind of velveeta-ish) but ok. Plus they melt good & due to them being indiv. pkged, it wks well to take as many or as few as you like.
Leah
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#6
Hard cheeses like parmesean do best. I carried extra sharp chedder at both ends of my hike (the cool time). I craved carbs and needed fat and protein, so often I’d buy a loaf of fresh-baked bread and an 8-oz package of cheese, and eat those for breakfast. Usually gone in 3 days - cheese in your mashed potatoes is awesome too.
In the heat of the summer, the orange oils tended to bleed from the cheese. Messy, but it didn’t seem to affect quality if eaten within a few days.
Hard salami keeps a similar length of time, as do chilled hard boiled eggs buried in the pack.
LiteShoe
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#7
We carried sharp cheddar the entire time on our thru-hike. As jan said, it can get oily but still tastes good. We tried to eat it first as we left town. Cream cheese also works. I’d stay away from it in the really hot weather but it doesn’t have to have refridgeration. It was tasty on tortilla’s and bagels. You should be able to find a sharp cheese in most towns. I didn’t try the singles because I’m not a fan of fake cheese but they may work.
Bluelight
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#8
I purchased dehydrated sharp cheddar cheese and vacumn sealed it to add to dinner meals, only had 10 drops but it was nice when I did get it. Usually always bought fresh sharp cheddar for lunches. Those little individual packets kept me from consumning it all in the first day or so.
socks
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#9
The foil packets that come from inside the Kraft Deluxe stay good forever as well. It makes a great spread and tastes scrumpdillicious right from the foil if you are sick of cooking the mac part…plus, if you take just the cheese and dump the pasta in a hiker box, youre dropping weight and feeding another hiker.
:cheers
lion king
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#11
i can’t hike w/o it. i had good luck with extra sharp cheddar as everyone else has mentioned. when i hiked the jmt last summer i had mailed a block to vvr via a hiking partners brother that was meeting us there. so it was mailed and set in a box for two weeks and then carried for several days amd tasted great.
jerm
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#12
If hike will be in the colder weather cheeses stay well chilled in outer pockets…other the string cheeses are good as they are individually wrapped and even when soft are tasty.
Squeaky
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#13
I use the individually sealed 1 oz chedder snacks - Kraft and Tillamok and others pack them that way in a 1 lb package. Sometimes hard to find, but Albertsons in Arizona and a lot of California grocery stores carry them.
They have lasted 12 days in the Sierra. Since they’re individually qwrapped, you can even store them in a stream overnight.
booger
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#14
ask Stumpknocker re snowshoes - he’s got a pair he really likes. he can be reached thru these trail journals
frogcaller
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#15
Being from New England, we love Cabot cheese, and carried that early in our hike if we could find it. Smoked gouda is good too, and doesn’t get oily the way Cabot and other cheddars do. But once the weather got warm, we tended to stay away from cheddar…
The cheese we carried all through spring/summer was Laughing Cow. They are triangles of cheese spread, and come in both plain and garlice & herb, etc. As they are more of a spread, they don’t get oily at all and didn’t spoil even if we used them over 4 days in the height of summer. They were great to spread on bagels or tortillas, and with crackers. We found it best to keep them in the round packages they came in, as it kept the individual triangles from getting too squished!
-Sparkplug 
Sparkplug
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#16
Cheese gets eaten so fast you don’t even have to think about it going bad. It won’t last that long.
Conan.
Conan
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#17
Good old-fashion Hoop Cheese like from a country store. Sits on the counter at the store, and the cashier cuts it to order. Shelf life of neuclear contamination!
Carlgoose