WhiteBlaze Pages 2024
A Complete Appalachian Trail Guidebook.
AVAILABLE NOW. $4 for interactive PDF(smartphone version)
Read more here WhiteBlaze Pages Store

Page 1 of 2 1 2 LastLast
Results 1 to 20 of 26

Thread: Packing salt

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    Registered User
    Join Date
    05-21-2010
    Location
    Seminole, Fl
    Age
    75
    Posts
    463
    Images
    26

    Default Packing salt

    wondering what others do to carry plain old salt on the trail. McDonalds packets cake up, film cans are a no - no due to chemical residue (supposedly), small baggies collect moisture. What are people doing?
    Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
    —M. C. Richards

  2. #2
    Registered User mgeiger's Avatar
    Join Date
    10-26-2011
    Location
    Cumming, GA
    Age
    52
    Posts
    86

    Default

    A little rice in your small ziplock perhaps?
    GA 80-Miler

  3. #3

  4. #4
    Registered User kayak karl's Avatar
    Join Date
    08-21-2007
    Location
    Swedesboro, NJ
    Age
    68
    Posts
    5,339
    Images
    25

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by gpburdelljr View Post
    GSI salt and pepper shaker - 1 ounce
    http://www.rei.com/product/784122/gs...-pepper-shaker
    i second that. (there is a video if you need instructions LOL)
    I'm so confused, I'm not sure if I lost my horse or found a rope.

  5. #5
    Registered User
    Join Date
    02-03-2003
    Location
    Lugoff, South Carolina, United States
    Age
    58
    Posts
    639

    Default

    I have never carried salt, at least not as a separate item. Meals are packaged up at home, prior to the hike, and salt and other spices are added then.

  6. #6
    Registered User
    Join Date
    08-02-2008
    Location
    prairie du chien, WI
    Age
    73
    Posts
    501

    Default

    I find that I don't use very much salt on the trail. Most foods are plenty salty already. Even my mixes of dried veggies are usually made with a flavor base that has salt in it. If you just put regular salt in a small pill baggie you will probably have enough and it will be easy to break up if it hardens. MSR makes a small tube shaped spice shaker that works very well and holds quite a bit--you can put in a few grains of regular rice to absorb moisture and make it easy to shake out.

    I sometimes carry a small nalgene of about one ounce capacity if I want to do some fishing or gather other foods that do well if they are soaked in salt water--mushrooms come to mind. Salt can also be considered a medicine and warrants a place in the medical kit.

    I sometimes carry rock salt--for canning not the driveway--in a small pill bottle. It doesn't get stuck together and on hot sweaty days a small granual will stay in my mouth until I feel like I've had enough salt and I can spit out the unneeded portion. You can do the same with those small packs from McDs but be carefull not to let salt get loose in your pocket and stay next to your skin for long.

  7. #7
    Registered User kayak karl's Avatar
    Join Date
    08-21-2007
    Location
    Swedesboro, NJ
    Age
    68
    Posts
    5,339
    Images
    25

    Default

    i put garlic salt and lemon pepper in it on short trips. on the trail most hostels will let you fill up reg. S&P, just do a chore for it
    I'm so confused, I'm not sure if I lost my horse or found a rope.

  8. #8
    Registered User
    Join Date
    09-29-2008
    Location
    West Palm Beach, Florida
    Age
    69
    Posts
    3,605

    Default

    I mix kosher salt and course ground black pepper together in a baby Nalgene. Although most foods are OK without, some things like boiled eggs gotta have it.
    nalgene mini.jpg
    The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
    You never know which one is talking.

  9. #9

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by WingedMonkey View Post
    I mix kosher salt and course ground black pepper together in a baby Nalgene. Although most foods are OK without, some things like boiled eggs gotta have it.
    nalgene mini.jpg
    One part pepper to eleven parts salt is the ratio we used working at a fast food place for seasoning the food.

    "To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." - T.S. Eliot

  10. #10
    Registered User Wise Old Owl's Avatar
    Join Date
    01-29-2007
    Location
    High up in an old tree
    Posts
    14,444
    Journal Entries
    19
    Images
    17

    Default

    There is little need for salt shakers today - most food has liberal amounts. - dry rice grains is the preferred method of keeping salt dry.
    Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.

    Woo

  11. #11

    Join Date
    08-07-2003
    Location
    Nashville, Tennessee
    Age
    72
    Posts
    6,119
    Images
    620

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by chiefiepoo View Post
    wondering what others do to carry plain old salt on the trail. McDonalds packets cake up....
    I don't have that problem. Just throw a few fresh packets in a snack size zip-lock and I'm good to go. About the only thing I might use salt or pepper on is eggs.

    Rain Man

    .
    [I]ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: ... Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit....[/I]. Numbers 35

    [url]www.MeetUp.com/NashvilleBackpacker[/url]

    .

  12. #12
    Registered User
    Join Date
    12-15-2003
    Location
    Charlotte, NC
    Posts
    3,949

    Default

    Salt? I get my monthly allowance from eating just 1 Mountain House meal.
    Last edited by Spokes; 04-04-2012 at 08:14.

  13. #13

    Default

    Use the salt that builds up in the bottom of your pretzel bag,if you don't carry pretzels.....start.

  14. #14
    Registered User mrcoffeect's Avatar
    Join Date
    11-02-2010
    Location
    Griswold,ct
    Age
    56
    Posts
    434
    Images
    7

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by rocketsocks View Post
    Use the salt that builds up in the bottom of your pretzel bag,if you don't carry pretzels.....start.
    I always carry some to snack on, I think its quite possible to live on nothing but pretzels and coffee.

  15. #15
    Registered User mefishn's Avatar
    Join Date
    06-06-2011
    Location
    Sandston, VA
    Age
    65
    Posts
    24
    Images
    6

    Default

    You can also use Lite Salt as it has Potassium in addition to the sodium. Good to add to water for sweaty days.

  16. #16
    Registered User Owlbear's Avatar
    Join Date
    02-29-2012
    Location
    Roanoke, VA
    Age
    39
    Posts
    8

    Default

    Haven't had a chance to try making these for myself, but this craft looks very promising as an ultralight spice kit using simple drinking straws.

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Ligh...ing-Spice-Kit/

  17. #17

    Default

    Try some of those Lance peanut butter cheese crackers(the orange ones)with coffee,pretty good!Any thing salty with coffee is tasty,come to think of it.

  18. #18
    Registered User Giantsbane's Avatar
    Join Date
    03-25-2012
    Location
    Little Rock, Arkansas
    Age
    33
    Posts
    63

    Default

    Empty Vitamin I bottles. Cheap and comes with a child proof lid.
    We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  19. #19

    Default

    I carry my salt on Fritos Never leave town with out a bag when its hot out.
    Follow slogoen on Instagram.

  20. #20
    Registered User
    Join Date
    04-28-2004
    Location
    New Brunswick
    Age
    61
    Posts
    11,116

    Default

    I wish someone would make small ziplocks where the zip goes across the short side instead of the long side.

Page 1 of 2 1 2 LastLast
++ New Posts ++

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •