Tag: treks
Travel Abroad With Your Backpacking Gear
If you’re an experienced backpacker, the world presents an endless ocean of opportunities for heading into the backcountry and seeing some truly spectacular wilderness. But there’s the pesky issue of actually bringing all your camping and backpacking gear on the plane and transporting it halfway around the world without anything getting damaged.
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Taiwan: Whatever Your Pleasure
Taiwan’s wealth of offerings ensures travelers find destinations, activities and amenities to suit all interests.
How to Plan an Extended Backpacking Trip
Backpacking is a fairly simple concept: Pack everything into your pack and pitch a tent somewhere in the backcountry, off the grid and away from established campsites. But backpacking takes serious planning, and the longer you plan to be away, the more considerations you’ll have to make.
How to Buy a Tent for Backpacking
As with any item you take backpacking, your tent choice will make a difference in your comfort when it comes to using the item and hauling it through the backcountry. Your tent, as your shelter, should be dependable but also light, as it’s one of the largest items you’ll carry. Choosing the wrong one will add bulk and potentially contribute to discomfort.
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The Province That Surrounds Seoul — And Outshines It
Skip the Seoul Crowds. The Real Korea is in Gyeonggi.
How To Find a Good Campground
What’s better for summertime than grabbing a sleeping bag with your best friends and heading for the mountains, spending a weekend out under the stars, roasting s’mores? Nothing. That is, until you find out the access road is shut off six miles back and you have to hike all the way up the mountain, see a few too many grizzly bears or learn your s’mores are a no-go because campfires are strictly prohibited. These things can turn a memorable camping trip into one which is memorable for all the wrong reasons.