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Dead Men in Winter

It's 91 (F) degrees outside and I'm sweating in front of my office air conditioner. So, let's talk about winter camping. It my favorite time of year for sleeping outdoors. One very important skill you need in winter is how to stake out a... 

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Preventing Trailhead Parking Break-ins

One of my regular readers contacted me recently about a car break-in they experienced at a trailhead parking lot in the White Mountains. Unfortunately, it happens, despite the efforts of the park service to patrol these lots. Your best protection to... 

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Solo Backpacking

Solo Backpacking I do a lot of solo backpacking. I got started when I hiked the Long Trail in Vermont in 2008. No one I knew wanted to come along, but I still wanted to go, so I did it by myself. I quickly discovered that I liked it more than hiking... 

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Lighten Up Your Backpack: Gear Compactness

Two years ago, I wrote a series of posts on how to lighten your backpack, that outlined the basic principles of lightweight backpacking: weighing your gear, cutting the weight of your big three, selecting gear that can serve multiple functions, and eliminating... 

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Just Say No to Tent Platforms

Tent Platform, Guyot Campsite, New Hampshire Appalachian trail I really hate tent platforms. They are terrible to sleep on if you have an ultralight tent or tarp because you can't stake them down easily. That isn't my tent in the photo above,... 

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TGO Challenge Gear System Review

Major Gear System Changes I made some pretty big changes to my gear list for The Challenge this year, replacing leather boots with trail runners, swapping in an ultralight cuben fiber backpack, using chlorine dioxide tablets for water purification... 

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The PVC Method of Hanging a Bear Bag

Learning How to Hang a Bear Bag If you backpack in bear country, you need to learn how to hang a bear bag  (unless a bear canister is required by the local authorities.) No one ever formally taught me how to do it so I developed my own techniques,... 

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