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Grand Canyon's Escalante Route
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This backpacking trip has it all – a little bit of adventure, steep trails, and climbing mixed in with mellow, sweepi...
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Friends Hike Yosemite National Park
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Yosemite National Park - What a place! I planned this trip with 3 other friends of mine about 2 years ago. They all l...
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Family Backpacking through Winter Cabining
Winter Cabin Our family's very first backpacking trip was a winter one. The destination? A cabin in Maine's coastal ...
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Hayduke Trail: A Southwest Adventure
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March 31st, 2013 was my last day of work and my new job would not begin until May 1st, which left me plenty of time ...
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Sandstone Amphitheatres
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Backpacking only makes sense because there are lines drawn around it; places we cannot go. Most definitions exclude c...
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Packrafting with Butterflies
A few weeks ago, two out of the three UK based GG trail ambassadors disappeared into the wilds of Torridon, North We...
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Relationships Forged by Backpacking
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The second weekend in October marked our first-ever three-generation backpacking trip. It was a short overnighter in ...
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Hiker Trash Nation: ALDHA-West Gathering 2013
Gossamer Gear Trail Ambassadors Whitney "Allgood" LaRuffa, Ryan "Dirtmonger" Silva, and Liz "Snokel" Thomas On the l...
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Vagabond Blues
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On the Vagabond Loop this summer I pretty much went where ever I wanted: closed National Forests, private land, camp...
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5 Day Glacier National Park Hike
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I went to Glacier National Park in the latter half of September with 3 other members of my backpacking club (Northeas...
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Thru-Hiking the Continental Divide Trail
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The Continental Divide Trail is an intimidating trail. Still shrouded in a veil of mystery, relatively few have compl...
