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Winter Backpacking Gear List

Winter Backpacking Is Expensive Over the past few months, I've been slowly testing and accumulating all of the gear necessary for winter backpacking and climbing, primarily in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, which are less than a 3 hour... 

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Long Trail Gear List: Section Six

Here's the gear list for my last major section hike of The Long Trail, a 4-day, 50 mile backpack from Johnson, VT to the Canadian Border. This gear list weighs a bit more than those from my late spring and summer hikes because the weather up north... 

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Big Agnes Insulated Air Core Sleeping Pad – Mummy

With the onset of Autumn, night time temperature are starting to drop into the mid-40's F in Vermont's north country, and it's time to increase the R-value of my sleeping pad. On my next section hike of The Long Trail to the Quebec border,... 

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Golite Mesh Hat

If you look closely at my gear list, you'll see that I carry 3 hats: a buff bandana, a mountain hardware polypro beanie, and a billed golite mesh hat. They all have a specific purpose. The Buff Bandana is soaked in permethrin and useful as a head... 

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Intro to Lightweight Backpacking

If you've ever been backpacking, you've probably heard people boast that their pack weighs 50 or 60 lbs. Those days are over. With a little knowledge, it is possible for anyone to reduce their pack weight to a comfortable 25 or 30 lbs. and still... 

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A Backpacking Food Experiment: MREs

One of things I have enjoyed about doing the Long Trail as a series of day hikes, with occasional backpacks and even a snowshoe trip thrown in, is the opportunity to experiment. I recently tried an MRE for my dinner on one of the backpacking segments.... 

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