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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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Spring Guest Post Series on SectionHiker

Section Hiker Spring Reading and Raffle Series Starts Monday

Starting May 6, I will be hosting a 3 week series of guest posts by famous hiking authors. It’s an all star cast including Karen Berger, Buck Nelson, Carol White, Gail Storey, Suzanne Roberts, Kathleen Meyer and many others. I know you’ll enjoy their articles and photographs which will be published exclusively here, on Section [...]

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Camping Indoors

Camping in a 1-Bedroom Apartment

I camped out in my Mom’s new apartment for a week durng a recent visit. It’s a one-bedroom place, a big change from the house she and my dad lived in before he passed away last year. A big change for guests and visiting kids too, because we don’t get a private room to sleep [...]

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Sierra Designs External Frame Backpack

More Backpacking Gear from the Early 70s

In January, I published  a post titled Backpacking Gear from 1975: A Time Capsule. Here’s a collection of more wonderful gear and advertisements from that golden era of backpacking gear. I get a hoot from looking at these old-time advertisements. Funny how some things are so different and some things have stayed the same. I [...]

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Weatherpants with Insect Shield

RailRiders Sponsors Team SectionHiker on the TGO Challenge

I’m pleased to announce that RailRiders, the adventure apparel company and makers of the Toughest Clothes on the Planet, will be sponsoring the SectionHiker Team on our 200 mile hike across Scotland in May 2013 on The Great Outdoor Challenge. Hiking coast-to-coast across Scotland over three mountain ranges and through wild, remote country can take [...]

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Section Hiker T-Shirt

Buy a Section Hiker T-Shirt and Adayak will donate $5 to Heifer

This May, I will be hiking across Scotland in The Great Outdoor Challenge – 200 miles in 15 days. Many hikers use challenges like this to raise money for charity and with your help I hope to raise $5000 for  Heifer International. Adayak.com, the company that prints Section Hiker T-shirts is helping me reach this [...]

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Klymit's Universal Load Lifters are compatible with all backpacks

Klymit Revolutionizes Lightweight Backpacking with Gas-Filled Universal Load Lifters

Klymit, makers of the award winning Inertia X Frame sleeping pad and a leading outdoor product manufacturer, has announced new Universal Load Lifter technology that can lighten the loads carried in daypacks and backpacks by up to 40 per cent. Compatible with all brands of backpacks, Klymit’s Universal Load Lifters attach to the shoulder straps [...]

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