Spot on Richard! On the AT I packed a lot of olive oil but didn’t end up eating most of it. In fact I ended up eating a lot less (5,000kcal) than I thought I would need to (7,000kcal) and I wasn’t hungry.
The hot breakfast beverages were great in the cool mornings of the spring on the AT: Black tea with buffalo butter, Wild brand cocoa powder with coconut oil powder, butter and vanilla powder, and matcha tea with avocado oil and lecithin were a few of my favorites.
As far back as 1980, was packing this stuff:
A lot of energy there, for the weight - a good thing on the mountain.
Thanks for this post.
I had abandoned dreams of through hiking the AT, but they have been renewed having lost over 60 lb on eating keto. I don’t think food is going to be much of a problem. 
Keto for Life!
Richard
Rekindle the dream! Food was definitely not our limiting factor, it was the aches and pains in the knees and feet, mostly from those stupid sharp rocks in Pennsylvania.
Yes … between the rocks of Pennsylvania and the PUDs of the roller coaster, there is no kindness for an old man. Modern trail builders actually understand what those contour lines on a map represent.
Dreams rekindled, indeed, just ask Mrs. Hanson.
Keto for Life!
Richard
Bless y’all for asking this and making this thread! I’m going camping the weekend after next for a couple of days and I was starting to wonder if I had any good options outside of: “nuts, nuts, and more nuts”. 
. I only started keto this month and would hate to kick myself out of ketosis for doing something that I love.
Just got my Kindle copy. I am going on my first backpacking overnight in three weeks - looking forward to keeping keto on the trail!
I cannot believe that I did not see this before. I am a pretty enthusiastic backpacker and found this when I was searching for keto friendly backpacking food. There are some good suggestions here, but as anyone that has been backpacking knows, weight is everything. I know people that have drilled holes in their toothbrush handle, in addition to making it shorter, to reduce weight.
I did not find one of my favorite backpacking foods in the thread but it certainly should be. That food is biltong. It is a form of dried meat, but it is very different from jerky or pemican. I personally like it more than either. You can see how to make it here:
How to make biltong
I have found a few other keto friendly dehydrated foods. I also wonder if raising your carb limit to somewhere around 100g would be reasonable. backpacking uses a lot of energy. Any thoughts or input would be appreciated.
Best,
I tried some Biltong on the AT last year and it was delicious. I ordered in on Amazon from South Africa. I’m not doing any jerky this year because it is so expensive (often $17/1,000kcal) and low in calories for the weight and a high protein diet definitively impairs my ketone production. I wrote about this on https://ketogenicbackpacking.com/keto-on-the-at/. I do mix mexican shredded jerky called Machacado with lard in a 25/75% ratio to make my own pemmican though.
As for extra carbs, each persons limit will be different. I have found I still have good energy and produce ketones with as much as 50g per day as long as it isn’t all at once.
I highly recommend making biltong yourself. It is really easy and does not take much time other than the drying, which is just waiting.
I am familiar with machacado but have never made it or tried it. I will make some with green Chile and see how it comes out. Thanks for the suggestion.
I did order your book and I am looking forward to going through your website. Thank you for putting the material out there.
Regards,
Just got back from 20 days in the Sierra on keto. Through hail and rain the pemican was the true super food.
What a great thread! I just read through a fantastic article on Alpine Science about keto backpacking. My partner and I hike, camp, and backpack, but are pretty new to Keto and haven’t been out much since - we started keto about 8 weeks ago and feel so much better! Lots of good info in here and great sample meal plans for any backpackers: https://alpinescience.com/keto-backpacking/
