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The biggest drawback I have seen to Mountain House is the side effects after an hour or so.

If there are several Mountain House eating folks sharing your teepee, flammable gas buildup might get to the point where ignition is a real danger.

Back in the '70's a friend and I hiked the John Muir trail starting at Yosemite. First night bears ripped us off big time (did you know bears can polevault?), eating all the granola, gorp & other trail goodies but leaving all the Mountain House dinners some rice and the Tang. This left us eating primarily freeze dried dinners for the next 16 days and 240 miles. This may have been the real cause of the near extinction of the condor in that area as air quality was severely degraded. We lived but I went from 165# to 145.

If you remember to stay low to the ground (crawl in an out of the teepee) and not open your eyes too wide, Mountain House will serve as a simple means of keeping you alive for a short time.