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Questions related to backpacking equipment, routes, safety concerns, or issues related to traveling on foot while carrying all of one's equipment (such as accessibility of certain regions to foot travelers, weather affecting backpackers, etc.).
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How can I backpack further without resupplying?
I agree with what @Tullochgorum said, and will not repeat his points, but let's examine your strategy of eating half your food and then turning back.
This is a zeroth order approximation to how to en …
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Does “Pay attention to the ounces, and the pounds take care of themselves” make sense when p...
Ounces or pennies or a mere billion dollars, the principle is the same: look at the cost or weight of every item you buy or take with you on a backpacking trip and try to pare down the weight or cost and …
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How do you deal with a picky eater on a backpacking trip?
First step is to try to find out what, among what you have, they do like. Maybe they hate freeze dried beef stroganoff but like freeze dried spaghetti and meat balls. To the extent you can without b …
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How to minimize impact on terrain at camp?
I agree with all of the tactics mentioned by @Tullochgorum, except for the bare feet -- Ouch! However, the terrain and your feet will thank you for wearing light weight camp shoes. As for looking fo …
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Is it poor etiquette to ask fellow backpackers where they have been/where they are going?
Much of the joy of backpacking, for me, is to get far away from the madding crowd. …
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Can a backpacker's solar water heater produce warm water when the ambient temperature is in ...
We have long carried a backpacker's solar water heater on our trips. The bliss of warm -- nearly hot -- water in quantity for washing one's filthy self is worth the small extra weight -- especially w …
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Where can we go backpacking out West under 8,500 feet that has much of the feel of much high...
My husband I have been backpacking in the Sierra and Rockies since 1972. We are bare granite freaks, and have always gone high. …
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What are the pros and cons of a digital altimeter over an analog altimeter for backpacking?
(e.g., reliability, accuracy, sensitivity, ease of use while backpacking) Are there any other devices that can tell us our altitude and the number of vertical feet we have hiked since we last stopped to …
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Are there any advantages while backpacking to hike during the night and sleep during the day?
The main advantages are:
You don't need sunscreen
Even with a full moon, the night sky is awesome
Things look (and sound) weirdly and wonderfully different in moonlight
In summer, the temperature wi …
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How much experience is needed with llamas to hike with a llama, on one's own?
I've seen people on multi-day hikes with a llama, and the llama seems docile and easily led. It seems too good to be true. I would never go out with a mule or a horse on my own. If my husband and I …
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Best method of carrying fruits over a period of 3 days while on a trek
We have never hiked in temperatures that went up to 95 F, but we have taken oranges on much longer trips than 2-3 days, with no problem, with day-time temperatures in the low 80s, and very sunny skies …
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Remaining impacts from the very low snow pack of 2014-2015 in the Western Sierra and extra p...
The snow pack of 2014 - 2015 in the Sierra was an unprecedented low of 5% of normal. Thankfully, the snow pack of 2015-2016 was close to normal. We will be in the western Sierra in two weeks, and I …
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Under what wilderness conditions is becoming infested with lice a possibility and what preca...
Most of my backpacking has been in the Sierra and Rockies, most of the time above timberline, there's been some in Hawaii and a bit in Shenandoah. …
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What are the pros and cons of air pads vs foam pads for backpacking?
I used a three quarter length foam pad -- just the basic $20 (or so) Ensolite pad -- for decades until, growing older and more effete, I thought an inflatable pad, aka air mattress, would be more comf …
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Should one store a tent loose for prolonged periods between uses to maximize its lifetime?
Explanation of why my question is not a duplicate of What is the best way to store my tent?.
I am specifically asking about an aspect not addressed in the earlier question or any of its answers: doe …
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