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	Backpacking (travel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Backpacking as a form of travel is usually said to have originated in the 1970s with the advent of low-cost jet airplane fares.
		Backpackers are sometimes identified as a subculture of generally youthful travellers dedicated to budget travel.
		Backpackers can be of any age to theoretically be part of the backpacker scene and subculture; however, the vast majority of budget travellers are clearly in their 20s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Backpacking_(travel) (3539 words)

	Backpacking - Preparing Yourself: Before You Plan Your Trip - free Suite101.com course
		Backpacking is a physically demanding activity -- much of the success and fulfillment you get out of the adventure depends largely on how your body is prepared to meet the challenges of the outdoors.
		Traversing jagged and unforgiving terrain is a given in backpacking, which makes the ability to carry one’s own weight (plus the burden of outfit and gear) up a vertical, a basic physical requirement.
		The ability to perform physically challenging activities specific to the backpacking sport is essential, not only to ensure optimum appreciation of the adventure, but also to prevent untoward accidents or mishaps that unskilled outdoor enthusiasts tend to suffer.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/17201/499 (1161 words)

	thebackpacker.com - backpacking, hiking and camping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When you are stuck behind your desk, take a read through our backpacking and hiking articles and imagine that you are there.
		Backpacking isn't a true sport in the common use of the word.
		Backpacking is a recreation, a time to get into the wilderness and absorb.
	www.thebackpacker.com (755 words)

	Alaska Backpacking & Adventure Tours - Wrangell St. Elias National Park
		Our backpacking adventure tours explore tundra and glaciers in very remote regions, some having never before been visited, where the land is young, the mountains still grumbling upwards, the volcanos still smoldering, the glaciers alive sculpting the rock faces and alpine valleys.
		As we backpack into the alpine country, a day trip follows each day of moving camp, allowing for the exploration of the high tundra valleys and remote canyons alongside the trail.
		No backpacking experience is necessary to enjoy this base camp adventure, and since the airstrip we fly into is at low elevation, this trekking region is open from early June through September.
	www.steliasguides.com /alaska_backpacking_trekking.htm (1906 words)

	Backpacking (wilderness) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Backpacking (also tramping or trekking or bushwalking in some countries) combines hiking and camping in a single trip.
		The gear includes the backpacks themselves, as well as ordinary camping equipment modified to reduce the weight, by either reducing the size, reducing the durability, or using lighter materials such as special plastics, alloys of aluminium, and titanium, or making them consumable such as sleeping bags made of processed paper which can be burned.
		Ultralight backpacking is a form of backpacking focussed on minimizing the weight of the gear carried.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Backpacking_(wilderness) (2006 words)

	Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools
		Whether you're backpacking, backcountry skiing, scuba diving, or flying in the wilderness, the McMurdo Fastfind Plus is a must-have in the event you find yourself in a serious emergency situation.
		Backpacking becomes a jaunt instead of a slog, and that liberates the whole experience.
		According to conventional backpacking wisdom, giardia contaminates all wilderness water, and we hikers and campers need to purify every drop that we drink; as well as what we use for cooking and brushing teeth.
	www.kk.org /cooltools/archives/cat_backpacking.php (11990 words)

	Backpacking - BSA Merit Badges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Define limits on the number of backpackers that should be on a backpacking crew.
		Tell environmental considerations that are important for backpackers and describe five ways to lessen their impact on the environment.
		In addition, assist in planning and take a backpacking trek of at least 5 days with at least three different campsites, and covering at least 30 miles.
	www.scoutingbsa.org /Programs/BoyScouts/Merit_Badges/Backpacking.html (415 words)

	Backpacking Trips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Outward Bound backpacking courses offer you the opportunity to seek your summit, and once you get to the top you'll be able to see farther and wider than you ever have before.
		Backpacking will enhance your endurance as an individual and enrich your ability to work as a member of a team, as you and your group tackle miles of wilderness terrain every day.
		This is a two or three week backpacking adventure in the Rocky Mountains and at our basecamp in Colorado.
	www.obwilderness.org /activity/backpacking.html?WESTREDIRECT (465 words)

	Backpacking Merit Badge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Describe the importance of and means to assure personal cleanliness while on a backpacking trek.
		While on a trek, use a map and compass to establish your position on the ground at least three times at three different places, OR use a GPS receiver unit to establish your position on a topographic map at least three times at three different places.
		Write a plan for a backpacking trek of at least five days using at least three different campsites and covering at least 30 miles.
	www.meritbadge.com /mb/026.htm (583 words)

	Backpacking School
		The Backpacking School is an introductory mountaineering class open to all CMC members regardless of hiking classification.
		The Backpacking School also teaches backpacking skills (tents, cooking, etc.), does its field training during four overnight backpacking trips and runs its sessions from August through December so students experience the range of warm and cold weather mountaineering conditions.
		To graduate from Backpacking School, you must attend at least seven of the eight classroom sessions and attend all of the Field Techniques trips.
	previous.cmc.org /cmc/bkps.html (311 words)

	Death March Notes
		Backpacking is that sport that you do outdoors over more than one day, away from automobiles, boats, bicycles, horses and roads, that isn't skiing or mountain climbing.
		Backpacking is the sport that lets you go three or four days without shaving or taking a bath.
		Backpacking is the sport that lets you get to places very few people go, see things very few people see.
	users.aol.com /gburch1/bpack01.html (1642 words)

	Canyonlands National Park - Backpacking (U.S. National Park Service)
		There are designated walk-in sites along some heavily traveled hiking trails, mostly in the Needles, for use by backpackers.
		Obtaining drinking water from the Colorado or Green Rivers is difficult as the water is very silty and hard to purify.
		Backpacking groups are encouraged to pack in water whenever possible.
	www.nps.gov /cany/planyourvisit/backpacking.htm (319 words)

	Backpacking Tents :: Online Catalog
		Backpacking Tents the unit price for tobacco products and multicomponent mass media campaigns), and six Backpacking Tents to increase cessation (increasing the unit price for tobacco products; multicomponent mass media campaigns; provider reminder systems; a combined provider Backpacking Tents plus provider education with or without.
		Backpacking Tents in each category will contribute to reductions in tobacco-related morbidity and death, and success in one area might contribute to improvements in the Backpacking Tents areas as well.
		In setting Backpacking Tents for Backpacking Tents selection of interventions to meet local objectives, recommendations and other evidence provided in the Community Guide should be Backpacking Tents along with Backpacking Tents local information as resource availability, administrative structures, and economic, social, and regulatory.
	cat56.info /backpacking-tents.html (305 words)

	BACKPACKING & HIKING for BEGINNERS
		he Backpacking and Hiking Guide for beginners features backpacking basics and hiking instruction and guidance for the beginner backpacker and backpacking and hiking equipment requirements.
		This information will be critical when talking tents, boots, clothes, backpacks, sleeping bags, and virtually all the other gear items you will need--some of which you don't even know you need, yet.
		A tired backpacker, is a backpacker who is more prone to injury.
	www.backpacking.net /beginner.html (4950 words)

	Yosemite National Park backpacking hiking wilderness camping
		Within the green shaded areas, backpackers are required to store food items, items carrying food scents, and toiletries in bear canisters.
		I have been backpacking for 21 years in Yosemite and neighboring regions, and it was only last year I got caught in enough rain to materially affect my trip.
		The water in the streams is very hard and full of minerals, and while this might be a good thing (to a point) for your diet, it's brutal on your lips when you are drinking it frequently from water bottles.
	www.yosemitefun.com /backpacking.htm (1859 words)

	BACKPACKING & HIKING EQUIPMENT For Sale
		You'll find backpacking equipment for sale and, in general, lots of lightweight and ultralight outdoor gear for sale and hiking equipment for sale.
		Backpacking gear from Western Mountaineering sleeping bags, Marmot tents and Marmot sleeping bags, Mountainsmith Mountainlight backpacks, Moss tents and tarps, Garuda tents, Walrus tents and much more.
		There's considerable information about researching and buying backpacking equipment and buying outdoor gear, tips to reduce backpack weight and for using outdoor gear for multiple purposes to achieve lighter backpacks, and practical backcountry wisdom and knowledge from fellow backpackers including homemade outdoor gear solutions.
	benedict.isomedia.com /homes/clindsey (336 words)

	Backpacking
		A backpacking vacation is the best kind - You become so absorbed in beautiful scenery, staying safe and warm, and well fed, and wondering what may come wandering by at night, that your normal life seems like from another world.
		According to the Colorado Mountain Club, when travelling in the backcountry "the most important thing to take on a mountain adventure is your brain — good decision-making skills, the ability to adapt to changing, even life-threatening, situations, and to make the most of the equipment and resources that you have with...
		As the days start to lengthen a backpacker's thoughts turn to the great trips of the best, and what adventures, beauty, and mystery might be encountered in the wilderness this season
	www.suite101.com /welcome.cfm/backpacking (340 words)

	BACKPACKING LIGHTWEIGHT - Backpacking & Hiking Resources
		That consideration was the main reason that Backpacking Lightweight was created in 1996, and it continues to be its primary focus.
		Publish your experience with hiking and backpacking equipment for the use and enjoyment of other backcountry travelers.
		A lighter backpack can not only help propel one up that hill, or help ones knees on the backside of that hill, but also can help one enjoy the overall venture even more.
	www.backpacking.net (635 words)

	BACKPACKING Message Board Discussion FORUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Backpacking Message Forums, also known as Backpacking Bulletin Board, Backpacking Chat and the Backpacking Discussion Groups, is an excellent place for outdoor gear discussion and to exchange info with experienced backcountry travelers who, frankly, are tired of carrying the kitchen sink into the backcountry.
		Many of the hiking forums members who frequent the backpacking message boards are already dedicated ultralight packers with much knowledge and wisdom to share in the backpacking forums, message board, and discussion groups related to reducing pack weight in the outdoor gear forum, including the option of making your own gear.
		In addition to the backpacking message forum and hiking bulletin board, our community also features various and sundry subjects like our outdoor gear forums and discussion on ultralight outdoor gear, making outdoor gear, gear for sale, backpacking food, hiking partners, hiking with kids and more.
	www.backpacking.net /bbs.html (273 words)

	Amazon.com: Backpacking Oregon (Backpacking): Books: Douglas A. Lorain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Author Doug Lorain is a resident of Portland and is, to put it mildly, obsessed with backpacking.
		Buy Backpacking Equipment — Sportpak equipment is made by backpackers in the Northwest for the rugged Northwest conditions.
		I was excited to read so many suggestions for varied new backpacking trips (and I have been backpacking in this state for 15 years!) His ratings are absolutely correct for the trips I have gone on.
	www.amazon.com /Backpacking-Oregon-Douglas-Lorain/dp/0899972527 (1302 words)

	Venturing - Ranger Award Electives - Backpacking
		List at least 10 environmental considerations that are important for backpacking and describe ways to lessen their impact on the environment.
		Plan and lead a backpacking trek (can be one of the treks in (a) above) with at least five people for at least two days.
		Learn about trail health considerations and typical backpacking injuries such as hypothermia, frostbite, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, altitude sickness, dehydration, blisters, stings and bites, and sprains and how to avoid and treat these injuries and illnesses.
	www.usscouts.org /advance/venturing/Electives/Backpacking.html (825 words)

	Open Directory - Recreation: Outdoors: Hiking: Backpacking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Backpacking in the Catskills - Pictures from popular overlooks in the Catskills with trail descriptions and advice.
		Backpacking Tips - Backpacking Tips is a leading resource on everything backpacking and hiking related.
		Wilderness backpacking tips and advice - The Wilderness backpacking website is dedicated to providing useful information for wilderness campers and backpackers.
	dmoz.org /Recreation/Outdoors/Hiking/Backpacking (966 words)

	Backpackers Travel Blog - Backpacking and independent travel - Backpackers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		So, we’ve now held the draw for the November Travel Quiz and are happy to announce that the two lucky backpackers with the first correct entries drawn are Ted Stubbington and Tenq Wai Meng.
		Oliver Mills, a member of the Backpackers Travel Photo Pool on Flickr, took this awesome photo of Edinburgh during the early part of the silly season.
		The bar’s library has a ‘bring-a-book-take-a-book policy’ which allows backpackers to leave much-read books behind and take another on the next leg of their journey.
	www.backpackers.com (679 words)

	Backpacking / budget travel: Backpacking advice & packing help - Everything you need to know!
		Of course travelling and place names like Lhasa and Istanbul, sound adventurous, but my grandmother could find her way round most of them (backpackers don't have to be young) and would not be alone in doing so.
		Tourism is the world's biggest industry and all but a very, very few places (normally the ones of no real interest or recently struck by war or a natural disaster) are well on the beaten track with the subsequent support industries plentiful.
		What to pack in a back pack; packing a backpack, travel safety, packing list for backpacking, pre-trip, first time, links and worldwide round world travel photos and pictures of: Africa: Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
	www.travelindependent.info (2959 words)

	Backpacking
		Northeast Pennsylvania offers some of the best recreational backpacking to be found in the mid Atlantic region.
		From Pennsylvania’s vast amounts of state parks to rolling logging roads and long forgotten trails - this is the place to backpack.
		Our staff loves to backpack and we know all of the best places intimately and we love to share our knowledge and experience with everyone.
	www.nesportsltd.com /trips/backpacking.htm (369 words)

	Mammoth Lakes, Eastern Sierra Nevada, Backpacking, backcountry hiking & mountaineering, Inyo National Forest: June Lake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Call it Backpacking, Backcountry hiking, or Mountaineering there is something about sleeping under the stars and fresh made cowboy coffee that not even the Ritz can compete with.
		Far from civilization, backpacking in the backcountry in the High Sierra is one of the most popular activities.
		For every overnight, and some day trips, you need to get a wilderness permit and maps from the local ranger station as most of the trails have limits or quotas on the amount of trekkers.
	www.cityconcierge.com /activities/backpacking.shtml (173 words)

	Practical Backpacking™ Forums - Useful Information for Backpackers - Get Practical™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Trip Reports forum is for backpackers to share their actual (not links to) trip reports and/or journal entries for their backpacking trips.
		The ParaWilderness Backpacking forum is for the discussion of rural and urban (flashpacking) style backpacking.
		The Backpacker's Health and Safety forum is for the discussion of health and safety issues as they relate to backpackers.
	www.practicalbackpacking.com /forums/index.php (544 words)

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