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

Wilderness Lover's Guide to the Web
20
Backpacking (Internet resources)
The Eyes Have it
24
Sunglasses, Backpacking (Equipment)
Getting Under Your Skin
30
Ticks as carriers of infection, Backpackers (Health and hygiene)
Head for the Border
34
Backpacking (International aspects)
Big Trip Food
40
Backpackers (Nutrition), Outdoor cooking
25 Keys to Camp Comfort
82
Camping
The Hermit in Us All
88
Hermits, Backpacking, Hermit Island (Wis.)
The Ultimate Gear Test
98
Backpacking (Equipment, Rating)
California's Lava Springs
104
Backpacking (California), Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park (Calif.)
Idaho's Seven Devils
106
Backpacking (Idaho), Seven Devils Mountains (Idaho)

Editors' Choice 1996
46
Backpacking (Equipment, Rating)
The Fire that Separates Day from Night
58
Sunset, Backpacking
The Battle of the Bug
68
Backpackers (Health and hygiene), Insect repellents
Bug Shelters
71
Bug shelters, Backpacking (Equipment, Rating)
When Good Trips Go Bad
74
Wilderness survival, Backpacking (Accidents and injuries)
Ohio's Old Man's Cave
108
Hiking (Ohio), Hocking Hills State Park (Ohio), Old Man's Cave (Ohio)
Basic Tent, Brilliant Fly
110
Tents
Signaling for Help
118
Signals and signaling, Backpacking (Accidents and injuries)
Sew What?
122
Backpacking (Equipment, Maintenance and repair), Sewing
A Promise of Spring
151
Wild geese, Seasons

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