Hut Cooking: Partner Style

There’s one common thread that links all hut trips/backcountry adventures together: The unstoppable hunger that builds through a day of climbing the skin track, transitioning, and (hopefully) skiing powder. For our trips, we’ve always followed this one guiding principle that has helped create balance and equity between all members of the crew.

Partner Cooking.

Lunch and breakfast are always on your own in our groups, some people just pound power bars, while some eat full meals, or make oatmeal. But, on our trips, dinner is a family meal. To keep things fair and make the trip the most enjoyable we adopted the Partner Cooking technique for Dinner. Everyone on the trip Partners with someone before we leave and decides what meal they are going to cook for the whole crew.

When it is your turn to cook, you prep, cook AND clean that one night. After that you never have to do it again. This provides some awesome quality of life to the trip when you aren’t on dinner duty, and you only have to do it once (depending on the size of your crew).

TLDR benefits:
- Coordination with your Partner so you can split the weight of dinner on the skin-in to the hut/yurt
- Allows you to hit the sauna directly after returning to the yurt when it is not your turn to cook
- Makes dinner every night into an event, instead of having everyone crush freeze dried solo meals

After doing partner cooking on a few trips now, I don’t think that our crew could ever go back to boring solo meals. Highly recommend.