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The Mountainsmith Apex 80 Backpack is a high volume, expedition-style appropriate for long backpacking trips where you need to carry extra food or technical gear. With an adjustable length torso, the Apex 80 is loaded with all of the features you’d expect on a high volume top-loading pack, but it is surprisingly lightweight (4 pounds 13 ounces) and far less …

Tenkara Fly Fishing by David Dirks isn’t an instructional book about fly fishing in the Tenkara style and if you’re looking for a structured introduction to Tenkara you’re going to be disappointed. Instead, it’s a round table collection of responses to questions about Tenkara techniques posed by Dirks to a half-dozen Tenkara fishing guides, covering everything from the philosophy of Tenkara, fly …

The most effective way to teach Leave No Trace principles is experiential, by having participants demonstrate the principles to their peers in the context of a hiking, canoeing, or outdoor trip. However, if you need to teach LNT as part of an indoor program targeting families including younger children, role playing skits that involve audience participation are a very effective way …

Whenever I go backpacking, I always bring along earplugs. If I’m sleeping near someone who snores in a tent or a shelter, they help cut down or eliminate the noise level. They also let me block out the sounds of the forest if I’m alone and feeling creeped out or if my shelter makes a lot of noise in the …