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NZ-made endurance nutrition for all-day adventures.

Self-supported
fuel.

Powdered gel mix and all-day adventure fuel for adventurers on the move, with real food for the stops to follow. Easy to prepare: weigh, mix, carry. Designed for runs, all-day rides, adventure races and long days in the mountains.

Shop the range How it works
One bag
42 gels
Gel ratio
2:1 / 90 g/h
Range
3 bags

01 The range

One day out. Three bags.

GEL on the climb, ALL-DAY across the tops, REAL-FOOD at any stop. Each product is designed for a different part of your adventure. GEL and ALL-DAY are in the first run, and REAL-FOOD follows.

04:00 08:00 12:00 16:00 20:00
  1. GEL The fast section
  2. ALL-DAY The long middle
  3. REAL-FOOD Any stop, any time · coming later
06:00 to 10:00 the climb, GEL 10:00 to 19:00 the traverse, ALL-DAY Car park to hut, any stop, REAL-FOOD

01 · The fast section

GEL

1.1 kg home-compostable bag

A real gel, set in your own flask. You choose how thick.

Maltodextrin and fructose at 2:1, with pectin and calcium to set it into a genuine gel rather than a syrup, and a base load of electrolytes. Shake it with hot water, pour it into your soft flask and chill it overnight. How thick is up to you: a little more water or a little less.

Carbohydrate
180 g
Energy
720 kcal
Ratio
2:1
Fills
250 mL flask
  • Maltodextrin 62%
  • Fructose 31%
  • Pectin, calcium, electrolytes, flavour 7%
$65/ bag Squeeze

02 · The long middle

ALL-DAY

1.1 kg bag

Real calories you can drink while still moving.

Carbohydrate, protein and fat in one drink mix, for big days at an easy, all-day pace. Maltodextrin and sucrose for fuel, whey protein and MCT oil powder so it is more than sugar, and cocoa for a light chocolate-milk taste instead of sweet citrus. Mix it to whatever strength suits your bottle and your day.

Full serve
150 g
Serves a bag
About 7
Taste
Light chocolate
Carries
Protein and fat
$75/ bag Drink

03 · Any stop, any time

REAL-FOOD

In development

Real food for long missions, mixed and ready to go.

A range of ready-to-go adventure meals built from grains, seeds, nuts and dried fruit. For the car park at dawn, a transition, the hut, or any stop where you want to eat something other than sugar. In development, and not part of the first run.

Status
In development
Built on
Grains, seeds, nuts
Coming later Eat

02 The method

Weigh. Mix. Carry.

01

Weigh

A kitchen scale and a bag. You decide the dose, not a wrapper. 200 g for a flask of GEL, whatever your bottle holds of ALL-DAY for the middle of the day.

02

Mix

Hot water and a hard shake for GEL, then overnight in the fridge while it sets. Cold water and a shake for ALL-DAY. Thicker or thinner is a choice you make, not one made for you.

03

Carry

One flask instead of eight sachets. One bag in the pack instead of a week of wrappers. Refill from the bag at the car, the drop bag or the hut.

Self-supported is an ethos. It means planning your own route, carrying your own gear, setting your own pace, preparing your own fuel. Powtrek makes that easier, with a simple method that puts you in control of your fuelling.

The full method, per bag
A lone figure on a snow ridge with a wide range of peaks behind

Self-supported

You plan the line. You carry the gear. You mix the fuel.

Canterbury high country, winter.

03 What a bag replaces

Forty gel wrappers vs one bulk bag.

A gel sachet is a plastic and aluminium laminate. New Zealand's soft plastics scheme does not accept it. Every one you buy is landfill, and the carbohydrate inside it costs about three times what the same carbohydrate costs in a POWTREK GEL bag.

Your season

A year on sachets against a year on bags

Sachet gels

$0

POWTREK GEL

$0

You keep

$0

0 wrappers not bought · 0 bags a year

How it is worked out. Hours times grams times 52 weeks gives the carbohydrate you fuel with in a year. Sachet gels are costed at $19.25 per 100 g of carbohydrate, the average of eleven brands at New Zealand shelf prices. GEL is costed at $65 for a 1.1 kg bag carrying about 1,000 g of carbohydrate. Shelf prices move; treat the result as a fair estimate, not a quote.

04 What is in the bag

The ratio is on the label.

Six ingredients in GEL. Maltodextrin and fructose in a stated ratio, pectin and calcium lactate to set it into a real gel, electrolytes and flavour. No proprietary blend, no ingredient you cannot say. One ratio, tuned for how most people actually fuel.

Maltodextrin to fructose
2:1
Optimised for around 90 g of carbohydrate an hour.

GEL · dry powder by mass

  • Maltodextrin 62%
  • Fructose 31%
  • Pectin, calcium, electrolytes, flavour 7%
  • Maltodextrin
  • Fructose
  • Pectin
  • Calcium lactate
  • Electrolytes
  • Flavour

None declared. Per flask, 200 g of powder carries about 180 g of carbohydrate.

05 Where it comes from

Tested where it counts.

POWTREK is made by an engineer who spends his weekends crossing the Southern Alps. Every recipe is carried over real passes on real days before it goes in a bag.

500 m 1000 m 1500 m Browning Pass 1,411 m Whitehorn Pass 1,753 m Harman Pass 1,326 m W · Styx valley Klondyke Corner · E
Three Passes, Arthur’s Pass. West to east. February 2026. 9 h 20 m 56 s · unsupported
A lone figure walking through an icefall
Icefall, Southern Alps.

From the log

  • 2026 Three Passes Arthur’s Pass traverse, west to east 9 h 20 m 56 s
  • 2026 Tour Te Waipounamu 1330km bike-packing race the length of the South Island 6 h 14 m
  • 2025 Five Passes Sub-alpine traverse through Otago Alps with Kate Morrison 16 h 34 m 57 s
  • 2025 Ball Pass Aoraki / Mount Cook 6 h 05 m 04 s
The whole story

06 Built for

Days like these.

  • Alastair running through a braided river during an adventure race
    GODZone, Kaikōura. 2014.

    Trail and ultra running

    For anything from a three-hour long run to a 100 miler.

  • Two figures at a snow camp at sunrise with a tent, a peak behind
    Camp below Mt McCoy, sunrise.

    Bikepacking and brevets

    Keep nutrition simple for long days on the bike.

  • Alastair paddling a kayak through a rapid
    GODZone, Kaikōura. 2014.

    Adventure racing

    Five days, four disciplines, no stopping to cook.

  • Two figures on a snow ridge at dawn, the sun low over cloud
    Rome Ridge, Arthur’s Pass. Dawn.

    Alpine and fast-and-light

    Glacier at dawn, summit by lunch, hut by dark.

  • A figure crossing a flooded river below a large boulder
    Escape to Harihari.

    Multi-day tramping

    Where every gram counts.

  • Alastair riding a road bike across a bridge in a race
    GODZone, Kaikōura. 2014.

    Gravel and road

    Two bottles, a gel flask, and a long way from a shop.

First production run

Get a bag in your pack.

GEL and ALL-DAY, blended and packed in Christchurch, shipped across New Zealand.

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