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Editor’s Note: If you’re headed to Outside Festival in Denver this weekend, you can catch me speaking with former Backpacker editor-in-chief and current Teton Gravity Research CEO Jon Dorn at Tales from the Trails. We’ll be sharing our top picks from 30 combined years with Backpacker, from the best sunsets we’ve ever seen to the hairiest animal encounters we’ve ever had, and letting our audience pick who had the better answer. Catch us at the Ultimate Basecamp in Civic Center Park at 5:40 p.m. on Saturday, and get to know Jon in this classic 2014 video from the Backpacker archives. —Adam Roy, Editor-in-Chief
Surviving in the wilderness often means doing unsavory things. Sometimes it’s drinking muddy water from a puddle, sometimes it’s eating insects. But what would you do if the only way to make it home again was to eat a person? In a 2014 Facebook poll, 43% of our readers said they would chow down on a (deceased, we think) hiking buddy if it was the only way to survive.
Well, our motto is that if you’re going to do it, you should do it right. In this classic Backpacker video, former Editor-in-Chief Jon Dorn gives you a rundown of where to find the tenderest meat and where to avoid. Tasteless? We’ve heard it tastes like pork, actually.
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