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Living Hazard: Personal Safety
While attacks on backpackers in the backcountry have occurred, that is no reason to prevent you from enjoying the woods.
Read More >>Campfire: Basics
Sitting around a campfire on a cold evening is, for many people, the ideal way to end a day in the wilderness.
Read More >>Campfire: In the Rain
Starting a fire in the rain can be a challenge, but it can be done with a little persistance.
Read More >>Winter Camping Hazards
Winter campers face hazards that spring primarily from the cold temperatures in which they hike and camp.
Read More >>Food Storage
Animals will do anything to get to your food or to get into a place that smells like food or human scents.
Read More >>Food and Water
In winter camping, you use up close to twice as many calories as you do in day-to-day indoor life.
Read More >>Sanitation: Bathing
The rules of bathing change once you leave civilization and enter the wilderness.
Read More >>Desert Camping Considerations
Desert plants and animals eke out a precarious existence in dry climes. If you're going to hike in their habitat, here are a few things you can do to minimize your impact.
Read More >>Winter Camping Basics
Why camp in the winter? Because winter strips life down to a state of raw intensity.
Read More >>Sanitation: Managing Human Waste
Proper disposal of human waste is important to avoid pollution of water sources, avoid the negative implications of someone else finding it, minimize the possibility of spreading disease, and maximize the rate of decomposition.
Read More >>Sleeping Warm
You're finally ready for bed, after hiking hard all day and cooking and cleaning up from dinner.
Read More >>Food & Water: Finding and Carrying
Planning for water is crucial in deserts, because neither natural nor man-made sources are 100% reliable: Springs can dry up.
Read More >>Campfire: Low Impact Fires
The two best methods for building a minimum-impact fire are in a self-contained unit such as a fire pan or on a mound.
Read More >>Making: Ideal Campsite
One of the pleasures of backpacking is sleeping in a different place every night.
Read More >>What to Bring: Clothes
When backpacking, clothing both keeps you comfortable and keeps you safe from the wilderness perils of heat-related illness, dehydration, and hypothermia. When backpacking, clothing both keeps you comfortable and keeps you safe from the wilderness perils of heat-related illness, dehydration, and hypothermia.
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