GORP, or Good Old Raisins and Peanuts as it's known to many, is the perfect portable and power-packed snack for the trail. Providing a nutritional wallop in every handful, GORP will keep you going for hours. Here are a few variations on the basic combination:

Trail Peak Trail Mix

• 1 cup Chex cereal, rice, corn, wheat or mixed
• 1 cup M&Ms
  
• 1 cup salted peanuts (or dried roasted peanuts)
  
• 1 cup raisins
  

Mixed GORP

• 1 cup mixed nuts (or dried roasted mixed nuts)
  
• 1 cup dried Fruit Bits
  
• 1 cup M&Ms
  
• 1 cup roasted sunflower kernels
  

Good-for-you-GORP

• 2-½ cups low-fat granola
• 1 cup dried pears
• ½ cup M&Ms
  

Energy Balls

• 1 cup chopped dates
• ½ cup peanut butter
• 1-¾ cups chopped figs
• 1 cup chopped apricots