Backpacker

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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
 

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Contents

No Refuge from the Range Wars
13
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Grazing (Laws and regulations), Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge (Or.)
Do Women Attract Bears?
18
Backpackers (Health and hygiene), Backpacking (Women), Medical myths
In Praise of the Quillpig
24
Porcupines
Star Light, Star Bright
28
Sky, Stars
Land of the Moving Earth
36
Backpacking (Western States), Sand dunes, Killpecker Dunes (Wyo.)
Steady as She Goes
72
River crossing
The Light Leather Boot Test
78
Hiking boots
Soup's On!
88
Backpackers (Nutrition), Soups
Vancouver's Carmanah Park
92
Backpacking (Vancouver Island (B.C.)), Carmanah Pacific Provincial Park (B.C.)
Georgia's Cloudland Canyon
94
Backpacking (Georgia), Cloudland Canyon State Park (Ga.)

The Test of Your Life
45
Wilderness survival
The Last Mountains
56
John Wesley Powell (American geologist and explorer.); 1834-1902, Mountaineering (Utah), Henry Mountains (Utah), Utah (Discovery and exploration)
Trouble at the Trailhead
66
Automobiles (Security measures), Backpacking (Safety measures)
Waikiki, Minus the Tourists
96
Hiking (Oahu (Hawaii)), Maunawili Trail (Oahu, Hawaii)
Packs Mom Would Love
100
Backpacks (Rating), Backpacking (Women)
The Secret of the Perch
127
Parent-child relationship, Fishing (New York (State))

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