How to Go Backpacking – The Basics – Part 1: Planning
Planning your backpacking outventure is very important to a successful trip. This article examines basic considerations in backpacking planning.
Planning your backpacking outventure is very important to a successful trip. This article examines basic considerations in backpacking planning.
Backpacking in state parks and other municipal lands allows us to explore hundreds of miles of trail. In addition, these lands preserve an area’s natural beauty, and safeguard locations, structures, and artifacts of historical significance.
Backpacking in national parks and other federal lands we get a sense of their grandeur. They are treasures to be explored and cherished. On foot, we get to see and experience them up close and personal.
Backpack to increase stewardship. It deepens our connection to the land and its remarkable variety of plants and animals the further we go into the wilderness. We come to understand that protecting the natural world around us for ourselves and for future generations is not optional, it is our duty.
We dream, we plan, and we backpack for the adventure. Once we go, we find a need to repeat this OUTventure as often as we can. It is always a fun adventure.
Backpack to see the beauty which surrounds us in the wilderness. Seriously, throw on a backpack to discover its many wonders.
Backpack for your health. When we strap on a backpack for a longer OUTventure we get stronger in more ways than one.
People hike to enjoy the outdoors and to take a break from the grind of daily life. A little backpacking etiquette makes everyone's experience better.