u/mrfowl

Hey, I'm u/mrfowl, one of the founders of r/HikerTrashMeals. This sub is a place to post backpacking food (more specifically, to trips where resupplying is needed). Recipes should be lightweight, compact, calorie dense, and mostly non-perishable. If you used cast iron, a low simmer, or were concerned about burning your food, this is probably not the right sub for you. r/TrailMeals might be a better fit.

Posts here should contain the recipe at minimum (take a look at our rules please). Ideally they should have the calorie count, and if possible other macros as well, bonus points for cal/g. Post flair is required so we can sort recipes. Please look through all of the available flairs and choose the most appropriate one.

We're generally pretty friendly, but we will fight for each other, so try not to be an ass. Please poke around for a bit and engage with the community before you make your first post. That way you'll get a better idea of what's expected in this sub.

Originally this sub started as a place to post interesting recipes so other backpackers could get ideas. I'd still like to keep it steering in that direction and I think this rule would help keep a little of the old spirit alive. Plus it seems like we've gotten quite a few spectators recently that are a little confused

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So I'm planning on doing all the wrong things tomorrow 😁

I have a brand new Splitwing tarp that I've never set up, and I've never camped *under* a tarp before. I live in the city and I didn't have time to go to the park to set it up and adjust the guylines and whatnot before my trip.

Any advice to hopefully avoid a fiasco (other than set up the tarp before hand)? There's a small chance my friends will not be ready when I get to their house tomorrow morning. If that's the case, I'll set it up in their front yard.

I've done plenty of cowboy camping, I've slept rolled up *in* a tarp, I've hammock camped, and I mostly sleep in a x-mid nowadays. I've been camping a lot so I know how to choose a site, angle for wind/rain, avoid buggy/puddle areas, etc.

I did check that it has 6 stakes, and a fair amount of guyline. I did not check if the tarp has any defects... I'll be sleeping on a 3/4 length ccf pad. I have a polycro ground sheet that has not been cut so it's way too big. I'm bringing a SOL bivy just in case, and I have a bug net and deet. I'm confident I won't die, but it's very possible I'll be quite uncomfortable. The weather is supposed to be 10-15mph wind, and ~0.5 inches of rain overnight.

On Android, for r/HikerTrashMeals

I'm trying to make it so that people can't post unless they have some minimum amount of Karma as I've been getting inundated with bot posts that are just stealing previous posts from my sub and reposting them. How can I do this from mobile?

Or better yet, is there a way to make the auto-mod check to see if that same picture has already been posted before? All of these bots post a picture so that would work great.

Hey folks, I just wanted to apologize to anyone who has had their comments randomly deleted.

If your comment gets removed, please let me know and I'll look at it (eventually...hopefully). I don't remove comments unless it's blatant spam/harassment, so if you just commented something like, "that looks like gut abuse" it wasn't me that deleted it 😅

For the most part I only actively moderate posts (and reported stuff, thank you for reporting spam! That's much appreciated!). I just looked through the "removal" logs and apparently the auto-mod has been deleting seemingly random comments for a while now. I went back through and approved a bunch, but there were a ton and I gave up.