One of the things that I like most about backpacking is that it lets me reduce the clutter and distractions in my life, if only for a few days at a time, by severely limiting the material possessions I can carry with me. This lets me focus on the people I’m with and the beauty [...]

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I’m jazzed. I just signed up for a training course from the US Forest Service, on how to use a Crosscut saw. Successful participants of the class receive US Forest Certification for use of a crosscut saw to maintain trails in federal wilderness areas. The course is being held at the USFS Manchester Ranger Station [...]

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I went out to dinner with my wife at our favorite Chinese place, the night after I got back from my last section hike in Vermont . We got fortune cookies and here’s what mine said. It will certainly be useful to know this phrase when I’m hiking during the Olympics…in the rain!

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Are you be interested in writing a guest post for sectionhiker.com?
The purpose of this blog has always been to develop an international community of passionate backpackers that share a mutual interest in long distance backpacking and lightweight gear. Now that the blog has achieved critical mass and generated a regular audience,  I’d to build a [...]

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