trail mix: DIY or premade?

Go to Sam's, etc and buy some nuts. If you want fruit, get a dehydrator and dry some out.

Mix it together.

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for my anti-raisin son

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Smart kid.

My standard trail mix was always plain M&Ms, deluxe missed nuts (no peanuts), and raisins. I always packed a gallon ziplock full for any alpine climbing endeavor. About 26 years ago we were climbing in Ecuador and stopped at a climber's hut well above the year-round snowline to prepare for the summit attempt the next day. I transferred some gorp into a quart ziplock and put it in my summit pack and left the rest in my main pack. When we returned form the summit the next evening rodents (I called them Ecuadorian squirrel rats but don't know what they really were) had gotten into my main pack and raided the gorp. Those rats that live above the snowline and the only food they have is what they steal from climbers took every single M&M and nut out of that bag and left the raisins untouched. I have never knowingly eaten a raisin since that day if a rat with limited food sources won't eat them I sure as hell won't. I get my potassium in trail mix now from either dried apricots to bananas.


The last anecdote from that trip was when I returned home I unpacked my backpack about 2 weeks later and in the bottom, I found the dedicated corpse of an "Ecuadorian squirrel rat" he FAFO and my revenge was complete though unintended.

DIY