Bowl

 

At Philmont, you will be cooking your own meals on the trail. Every meal is designed to be cooked/hydrated in one pot. Don’t let mixing all the dehydrated food into one pot scare you. Philmont plans each meal so that all parts goes well together. For example, you don’t want to eat just rice or beans do you? Philmont has Mexican Fiesta (Rice & Beans) where you mix both the Rice and Beans into one pot and it is an explosion of flavor!

Contrary to what you may read online, you will not be allowed to use any disposable dishes or dish liners on the trail. There were 28,000 people who hiked Philmont in the summer of 2012. If each person produced an extra 11 items of trash? It would generate about 10,000 extra pounds of trash to be hauled out of the back country.

When you are looking for your trail dish, you want to find something that is plastic and sturdy. It needs to be small enough to be submerged into the pot so that it can be sanitized. You should also try to get something that you can lick clean. Yes, the more of the food you can get out of the bowl the better. If people have matching dishes, try to engrave/carve their name into the bottom of the plastic as sharpie tends to wear off on the trail.

We do not recommend fold-up or collapsible dishes. Even though they look cool, the fold up dishes tend to leak along folds and break on the trail. The collapsible bowls can be difficult to submerge in boiling water for sterilization as they tend to float. Also, if your bowl has a lid on it, you do not need to bring it. It will not be used.

GSI Outdoors Green Infinity Bowl

MSR Deep Dish Plate Red

Sea To Summit Delta Bowl Orange