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

A Forest for the Trees
13
Forests and forestry (Maine), Clearcutting, Lumber industry (Environmental aspects)
The Last Word on Deet
24
Deet
What the Animals Know
30
Wilderness survival, Animals (Habits and behavior)
Who's in Charge Here?
34
Backpacking (Study and teaching), Leadership (Study and teaching)
Let's Do Lunch
40
Backpackers (Nutrition), Lunches
Less in More
90
Clothing and dress (Backpackers)
Little Essentials
92
Clothing and dress (Backpackers)
Labels to Look for
98
Sporting goods stores, Clothing industry (Directories), Clothing and dress (Sports clothes)
The Complete Fabric Dictionary
110
Textile fabrics, Synthetic (Terminology)
California's Beveridge Canyon
118
Backpacking (California), Beveridge Canyon (Calif.)

The Land Needs Friends
44
Nature conservation, Wilderness areas, Environmental policy
Paradise Or Private Club?
52
Backpacking (Maine), Baxter State Park (Me.)
Apparel Buyer's Guide 96
60
Clothing and dress (Sports clothes)
Stay Dry for Less
60
Clothing, Waterproof
Gust Busters
72
Jackets
Trail Trousers
78
Clothing and dress (Sports clothes), Pants
Ohio's Silent Woods
120
Backpacking (Ohio), Wayne National Forest (Ohio)
Wyoming's Tongue River
122
Caving, Tongue River Cave (Wyo.)
A Beast of a Pack
126
Backpacks (Rating)
Tent Pole Repair
132
Tent poles (Maintenance and repair)
Go Smoke a Fish
144
Camping (Humor, satire, etc)

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