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As the names says, Back Country Cuisine is food for back country adventures. Southland’s Alliance Freezing Company pioneered the development of freeze-drying food in New Zealand for the use in the outdoors and Back Country Cuisine took this over from 1998, with the mission of improving people’s health and wellbeing by reducing barriers to their participation and enjoyment of the outdoors.

One NZ GODZONE welcomes Back Country Cuisine as a supplier partner for Chapter 13 being held in Aoraki/Mt Cook and the greater Mackenzie District. GODZONE director Rob Nichol says there is great synchronicity between the brands.

“ GODZONE is all about endurance over multiple days with competitors needing to fuel up on good nourishing food over the four to eight day period they are out on the course. This is real expedition racing over some pretty difficult terrain which makes Back Country Cuisine the perfect fit and we’re stoked to have them on board for Chapter 13 fuelling up competitors, volunteers and crew.”

From its Invercargill home, Back Country Cuisine has grown into the market leader in freeze-dried outdoor food, with products available throughout New Zealand, Australia and other international markets.

Back Country Cuisine GM Tony Caudwell says the range is designed around the demands of outdoor activity, with Back Country Cuisine providing fast, nourishing food wherever the adventure leads.

“Our focus is simple: creating purpose-built fuel for adventure. Freeze-drying removes moisture while retaining flavour and nutrition, dramatically reducing weight and making meals easy to carry, store and prepare.”

“Back Country Cuisine has been involved in many chapters of GODZONE over the years and its always a great way to test just how good our meals are in fuelling athletes delivering hearty, tasty meals that are lightweight, easy to carry and ready in minutes with water. For Back Country Cuisine, getting more involved with GODZONE as a Supplier Partner and team sponsor is a natural fit.”

And a new chapter has emerged for Back Country Cuisine who are also sponsoring a team into Chapter 13 after supporting winning GODZONE Chapter 12 Pursuit team of Henry Lovegrove, Max Groer, Isabelle Schwarzenbach and Finn Van Keulen.

“We are very excited to sponsor their return for Chapter 13 as Back Country Cuisine U23 in the Pure category,” says Toney. “ Stepping up to the longer course will be a significant challenge for the team, testing their endurance, navigation and teamwork throughout the race.”

“This year’s location of the Aoraki/Mt Cook region will bring new challenges with alpine terrain and the change in category will bring fast-paced racing. While it’s a big step up from Pursuit, they’re looking forward to pushing themselves and getting back into it as a team which gelled and worked so well last year.”