Two hours, minimum. That’s how much time we estimate we save you when you order ahead and pick up Adventure lunches from Park Provisions in Coram MT.

Seriously, the trip to the big grocery store in Columbia Falls and back from the West Glacier area is almost an hour. Then there’s the planning and supplies list, the waiting for sliced sandwich meat, the cart filling up with so many over-inflated lightweight bags of snacks of questionable nutritional value . . . For a group of four it is easy to spend $120 on the groceries alone and still feel under-prepared for your day, so you are probably going to have to stop at another one or two places (add 15 minutes each and more $$).

Somebody has to spend time making the sandwiches and prepping your cooler, collecting custom orders for your trip mates (or not) And while that someone is making and packing the lunch, they *are not* getting themselves ready or helping anyone else get ready either.

In this familiar scenario, your group is running late, the lunch isn’t finished, the essentials are not making it into that tub in the back of the truck, and you forgot to see if your feet still fit in your boots with those new hiking socks you got for Christmas.

Trip anxiety. That’s what you might have, if you identify with this little story. It’s a problem we can help you solve, so you can have a more timely and less stressful start to your day. Order some Adventure Lunches from Park Provisions, and just grab them and get on that trail!