PRECISE WATER MEASUREMENT MARKS FOR BACKCOUNTRY HUNTERS

Let’s be honest, water measurement marks on most pots suck.

There are usually only three marks spaced so far apart that you’re stuck guessing between lines to get the right amount of water for a freeze dried meal. That leaves you with one of two outcomes: a meal so dry you can barely swallow it, or one so soupy you could drink it through a straw. Either way, you’re wasting water.

I don’t know about you, but on backcountry hunts I always seem to be running low on water, so the last thing I want to do is waste it.

From the very first backcountry hunts my brother and I went on, this has been one of our biggest frustrations. We never understood why no one would simply make better measurement marks in their pots, and honestly, we still don’t.

So to say it was at the top of our list of things to fix when we started building the Highcountry Cook System is an understatement.

How we went about solving this problem was pretty simple.

Gather all the water measurements needed to cook Peak Refuel and Mountain House meals. Find a range that covers pretty much all of them. And put those exact measurement marks inside our Highcountry pot.

What we ended up with is 6 to 15 ounces in 1 ounce increments so you never have to guess again.

It’s not rocket science. But like everything we’ve done with the Highcountry Cook System, the devil is in the details and small things like precise water measurement marks for freeze dried meals matter to us.

Every detail in the Highcountry Cook System was intentional and has a purpose. For us, that’s the difference between a good product and a great product.