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Guthook as Santa Dread

Interview: A Campfire Chat with Guthook

I haven’t see you in a few months, what do you look like these days? Beard, no beard, dreadlocks, puff-ball or short hair? My disguise is ever-changing, so I hesitate to give it away… But for now I’m just beginning to regrow the scruff. I cut everything short at the beginning of March to anticipate [...]

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The Ramjet MX and Ramjet UL

Gardner Outdoor Lightweight Designs (GOLD) – An Interview with David Gardener

Please extend a hearty welcome to David Gardener of Gardner Outdoor Lightweight Designs, a new cottage backpacking gear manufacturer that just opened shop this year. Specializing in super ultralight backpack gear (SUL), David has already developed some quite innovative products using modern materials such as titanium and polycryo. A product design fanatic and jack of [...]

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Burmese Machete

Backpacking Knives and Multi-Tools by Steve Hanlon (hikezilla)

I’m a tool guy. I always have been. When I was a kid I was notorious for taking things apart and (sometimes) getting them back together again. I was always building things with saws, hammers, drills, nails using the occasional free sheet of plywood that would fall off a truck. My love of tools also [...]

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BearPaw Lunar 2 Pyramid Tarp

The BearPaw Luna 2 Pyramid Tarp Shelter by Bryan Hansel

In late September I was planning a 17-day, 240-mile canoe trip across the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) that would take place in October. While most of the trip would be paddling, we would also need to portage all our gear over rugged trails between lakes. Also, we would end our trip on Lake [...]

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Section Hiker Profile: J. Colten

  Superior Hiking Trail: Fantastia Overlook How many miles of the Superior Hiking Trail have you hiked so far? I've hiked 215 of the Superior Hiking Trail's current 277 miles (more is being built every year) How many years have you been doing it? I started day hiking parts of the trail about 13 years [...]

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Section Hiker Profile: Christopher Reeves

How many miles of the Appalachian Trail have you hiked so far? 186 How many years have you been doing it? 2 years What sections have you completed? Front Royal, Va. To Pa. 225, 4 miles north of Duncannon, Pa Why do you keep coming back to the AT? There are many reasons I keep [...]

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Section Hiker Profile: Jeremy Rafter

How many miles of the Appalachian Trail have you hiked so far? I have hiked the 70 miles of the AT that are in Great Smokey Mountains National Park, as well as another 80 miles worth of shorter section hikes closer to home in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for a total of 150 miles. How [...]

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