Backpacker

Front Cover
Sep 2004
114 pages
Vol. 32, No. 225
ISSN 0277-867X
Published by Active Interest Media, Inc.
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

Trail Log
19
Backpacking
The High Line
27
Backpacking (Colorado, Utah), Trails (Colorado, Utah)
3 Top Beach Hikes
34
Backpacking (Massachusetts, Washington (State), Florida), Beaches (Cape Cod (Mass.), Long Island (Wash.), Santa Rosa Island (Fla.))
Basecamp Skills
51
Backpacking
Gone To The Birds
65
Peter Kaestner, Birds (Brazil), Bird study
Camp Comfort
73
Camping
Monkey Business
80
Tree climbing (Study and teaching)
Death Valley
86
Backpacking (Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.))
Layering By Location
91
Backpacking (Equipment, Rating), Clothing and dress (Backpackers, Rating)

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