My favorite combination was cocktail peanuts, raisins, and M&Ms in equal parts.

I don't make it much anymore, though. We take cut up apples, string cheese, and plain granola bars for hiking snacks and/or lunch.

I'm not a huge fan of raisins, so they get a smaller proportion compared to the peanuts and M&Ms. I also like to add roasted almonds to mine. I tend to steer away from un-candy-coated chocolate pieces/chocolate chips because they melt and goop too easily.

Chocolate chunks have no place near trail mix. In the heat, they melt turning everything into a sticky mess. use M&Ms instead.

I hate peanuts so I use a mixture of other raw nuts. TJ's sells premixed raw nuts (cashews, pecans, brazil nuts, & hazel nuts) I'll add golden raisins or any other dried fruit I can find that doesn't have added sugar.

I'm with AAAKid--cocktail peanuts, m&ms and raisins in equal proportions. Now I tend to go the TJs route as well.

GORP consists of raisins and peanuts. Nothing else.

That said, I don't like either, so my trail mix is usually almonds, pecans, various types of seeds and coconut. Maybe some dried cranberries or apricots.

wasabi peas and chocolate or yogurt covered pretzels!

raw walnuts, raisins, chocolate chips in cool weather/M&Ms in warm weather

I almost never eat it any more because I do not need those calories, but worth taking a long hike for!

I dislike raisins, but I usually add them for GORP status. I uaully do M&Ms, peanuts, crasins (or raisins) and some boxed cheap granola. That stuff will keep you going for days on the trail!

I agree about avoiding chocolate chunks, they will melt and trust me, it's not fun.

I am a single food person - I don't like mixes. I always start picking up one favorite out of the whole bag. :) So I'm usually satisfied with either just chocolate (may be - with dried fruits and nuts, but rarely), or just raisins, or just dates, or any other dried fruit alone.

Any combination of nuts, seeds, and dried fruits is good for me. But leave out the chocolate. If I'm going to do chocolate, it's going to be in a rare spectacular dessert, not in what should be a healthy and fueling snack. But to be fair, I don't have a very strong sweet tooth anyway.

The mere mention of GORP brought me back to the Girl Guide camp I went to at age eight. I had not heard or thought of the word (acronym?) since then...thanks for the flashback!

I am going to get so mocked for this, but the GORP I was raised eating was: raisins, mixed nuts, M&Ms, and plain Cheerios. Yes, Cheerios. I had no idea what GORP stood for, so now I realize it's blasphemous. But it's a tasty blasphemy.

I like the goji berries in the picture above and recently have been eating a mixture of raw nuts, goji, craisins, and raw cacao nibs as a snack.

Lately, we've been making a mix of raisins, peanuts, dried cranberries, cashews, and almonds. Yum!

my dad would always pack GORP for a nature hike with us kids, then when we were out of sight of the house, he'd wink and add some "energy pellets" - MnM's - to the mix. We thought it was the best treat ever! Of course, we'd add a few raw cranberries from the bogs we'd come across on the walks and that was heaven!

I tried making trail mix sans raisins once and realized that they served a purpose. Without some dried fruit, the mix is sooo dry. It was actually difficult to eat.

My parents always made us GORP when we were little. Man I loved that stuff. I know it's supposed to be just raisins and peanuts, but we always added M&Ms to ours. I honestly did not know that anyone else called it GORP... that's so funny.

@GreenAndLean: I ate Cheerios in my trail mix as well! Delicious!

My boyfriend calls every sort of trail mix GORP (and loves them all), and I didn't know it stood for something until this post. Thank you!

To avoid the GORP debate, my friends and I make what we call "CRAP" (chocolate raisins and peanuts) or sometimes "CCRAP" (cereal chocolate raisins and peanuts).

I hate raisins. Dried cranberries FTW.

I've been eating gorp or a facimile thereof since I was 8 years old - more than 4 decades ago. Now my gorp/trail mix consists of m&ms, tj's dried cherries, raisins, peanuts, roasted almonds and whatever dried fruit I have hanging around - chopped up apricots, banana chips, pineapple etc. I keep snack size bags in the freezer and grabbing however many bags I think the family might need.

I guess we do the Costco edition of GORP--mixed nuts (no peanuts) and dried cherries. Sometimes raisins and/or cashews and/or dried sweetened cranberries.

GORP is raisins and peanuts -- thus the name. Everything else is some variation on trail mix.

Personally, I hate anything too sweet or too processed in there: no candy, chocolate, pretzels, sesame sticks or "yogurt"-covered anything. I'd rather stick to nuts and dried fruit, but I'll accept cereal (Heritage Os) or popcorn (air popped) on occasion.

I've started throwing together my own trail mix to nosh on at work. Goji berries, mulberries, sunflower seeds, toasted pumpkin seeds and cacao beans. Om nom nom.

@greenandlean: we used to have Cheerios, too! I'm a fan of almonds, dark chocolate, and cranberries, myself, but I wouldn't say no to a big ol' mix. My only hangup is that I only like one kind of nuts at once... almonds or peanuts or cashews, etc. I wind up eating them separately if they're all mixed together!

i have basic qs here - totally unrelated....how do i go back to reading other posts after i have clicked on a post - do i just hit the back button ont he IE? if i click on main it takes me back to the first post. is there a button that i am completely missing seeing??

Far from a purist, i have to tart my GORP up with pretzels, sesame sticks, goldfish crackers, fun flavored granola, chocolate something, not just dried cranberries but FLAVORED dried cranberries, Dried pineapple, and all sorts of things i find in the cupboard. Im sure my boy scout troop leader is spinning in his grave.

Thanks tho! I am just starting to compile a list of snacks for a week long trip to yellow stone, being able to make some variations of trail snacks will help fight boredom with our food.

I have the same problem as a few other posters-- I don't like mixing multiple nuts/fruits. So I'll usually have some raisins/peanuts mixed together, as well as some almonds & dried plums and pistachios & dried apricots. Or I'll just grab a Larabar... mmm.

And @archie29, I don't think there's a back button built into the website (as you found, "main" will take you back to the beginning), so I'd just use the back button on your web browser.

I'm almost ashamed to admit I make a Chex Gorp from time to time.

I love to make gourmet GORPs, one of my favorite is Banana Walnut, it is easy to make and wonderful. You can get the recipe at: http://gorptrailmix.com/Recipes.html