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How to Attach a Trekking Umbrella to a Backpack

How to attach a trekking umbrella to a backpack

A trekking umbrella is a useful piece of backpacking gear for rain and sun protection. But an umbrella can be a real pain in the butt if you have to hold it up for hours at a time using one arm, especially if you use trekking poles to hike. Here’s a simple technique to attach a trekking umbrella to your …

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How to Cook One-Pot Backpacking Meals

How to Cook One-Pot Backpacking Meals

One-pot backpacking meals are a satisfying and low-cost way to eat well on backpacking trips. Made with Knoors rice sides, noodles, pasta, stuffing, wheat cereal, or oatmeal, some added protein like tuna, chicken, bacon, or sausage, or nuts and dried fruit they’re very easy to cook and there’s very little cleanup required. They’re also easy to assemble with ingredients from …

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How to Eliminate Spare Clothing from your Gear List

Stuff Sacks help compress and organize the gear in your backpack

Many ultralight backpackers bring extra clothing on trips that they never wear and end up carrying for no purpose. Doing this has a ripple effect, because it means you need a larger backpack to carry the extra clothing, which is probably going to weigh more. Instead of bringing extra clothes, I only bring clothes that I know I’m going to …

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Hiking a Monroe, Washington, and Jefferson Loop in May

Hiking a Monroe Washington Jefferson Loop in May

There are two seasons in New Hampshire’s White Mountains: winter and everything else. After six months of winter, a very long winter, I am ready to hike on dirt again. But, this being mid-May, winter is still hanging on above 3000 feet, while the valleys are wet with snowmelt, the rivers are running high and the black flies are breeding. …

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