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Posts tagged with Backpacking
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The Complete Guide to Packing for a 7 Day Backpacking Trip
When planning an extended backing trip you want to make sure that you have everything you need and little that you don’t. There is nothing worse than finding out after day one of your planned 7 day hike that you forgot to pack cooking fuel or a clean pair of…
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Preparation
Adequate Preparation is Key to Any Successful Backpacking Trip I must admit that I love planning a backpacking trip almost as much as the trip itself. It is during this stage that I allow myself to mentally walk through the entire journey from beginning to end, campsite to campsite (and…
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Hiking While Old
Let me make one thing clear from the start: despite the title of this piece, I do not consider myself old. An old man is someone twenty years my senior or more, and this has been true for as long as I can remember. When I was twenty, forty was…
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Why I Go
The question was a fairly simple one, and yet I struggled to give my wife an answer It was early morning on a Monday, just past 8 am. I was in the middle of packing for an April snowshoe trip to Crater Lake and my wife wanted to know why…