Snow Peak’s Titanium French Press offers gobs of convenience and rustic freshness in one tidy, expensive package for your next hiking or backpacking adventure. French press coffee after hiking in Paso Robles is a great way to spend an afternoon amidst the vine-laden trails systems.
Few of life’s joys on the trail go without a good brew – cold brew, and no, not the kind from the tap. We’re talking a good, old-fashioned cup of Joe straight from a Snow Peak Titanium French Press.
Snow Peak’s Titanium French Press acts like two-in-one. First, it’s a quite nice and usable, ultralight backpacking coffee press. Second, it without its press features inside it doubles as a solid water drinking mug, soup container or boiling water pot. In all my years on the trails and backpacking, I’ve stuck to everything from pour-in dissolvers to “cowboy style” coffee, Yerba Mate and everything in between. Yet the subtle nuances of a fresh-brewed, properly ground blend of SLO Roasted Coffee hits the spot.
Making coffee on the trail for me has 5 bonuses:
1 Coffee shop it in the wilderness
Coffee on a circular table or posh interior couch has its time and place. In today’s world, no vantage proves more of a respite than nature. Drinking a cup of coffee while on the trail has its own sense of awesomeness in both time and place.
Because the French press lets folks brew those robust natural flavors exactly how they like it – steamed to maximum saturation sometimes, quickly steeped and pressed in others.
2 Re-charge & re-hydrate
Sure, many will argue that caffeine-based products can take their toll on your body’s ability to maintain adequate water supply. Notwithstanding, it’s no secret either that a warm, hot cup of French pressed coffee goes a long way for the spirit, and with it added focus and drive for the outdoor tasks at hand. Setting up your little camp brew shop along a nice spot on a trail has a sense of uniqueness. Always be sure to rehydrate with plenty of water.
3 Reprieve from the monotony
Long, drawn out trails can take their toll on you both physically and mentally. By positioning your “reward” as a fresh, renewing brew experience, it can give your trip added stoke. The grind of long trails needs a reward: Coffee and sense of adventure can help give you something added to your hike that provides incentive and reprieve from monotony.
4 Develop trail skills
Brewing a perfect cup of coffee is an art form. Perfect that art form near a trail, natural space, park, mountain, beach or benchland – brewing coffee via trail is its own niche in coffee brew-craft. Develop this valuable trail skill – coffee brewing – to please yourself and many others. Consider this a lifelong endeavor in becoming trailside coffee brew-master.
5 Japanese titanium put to work
Japanese titanium is the name of the game with Snow Peak’s Titanium French Press. They call it an “elevated coffee experience” over at snowpeak.com, “whether at home or in nature.” While I have not had the chance to pair it with the Field Barista Grinder, I am quite sure it’s even more amazing ground fresh on-the-spot.
If this sounds a bit like an advertisement for Snow Peak’s Titanium French Press, it’s not. This product has resonated with me personally, having backpacked with it countless days in the High Sierra, along with using it indoors as my primary coffee maker. Titanium French presses are pretty rad.
