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Backpacker Magazine – January 2012
Readers' Choice 2012: Reader Leader Contest Winners
More than 150 of you entered our contest to become a BACKPACKER field scout. Meet the winners.
Colleen hikes the Pacific Northwest Trail in Glacier NP (Rowan Lewis)
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Tags:
- Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail |
- Glacier |
- Montana |
- Wyoming |
- International Appalachian Trail |
- Parc National de la Gaspesie |
- Quebec |
- North Carolina |
- Sequoia/Kings Canyon |
- California |
- Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail |
- Appalachian Trail |
- Maine |
More than 150 of you entered our contest to become a BACKPACKER field scout. Meet the winners here, starting with Colleen Contrisciane-Lewis, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. She earned the all-expenses-paid grand prize: an assignment to hike—and report on—her dream trip.
Read about her 85-mile, weeklong transect of Glacier National Park on the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, then check out seven more routes, from Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park to Quebec, all scouted by our runners-up.
The Winner
Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, Glacier National Park, MT
7 More Reader Leaders Share Their Top Trips
Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, Glacier National Park, MT
7 More Reader Leaders Share Their Top Trips
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International Appalachian Trail, Parc National de la Gaspesie, Quebec
Creekside Loop, Pisgah NF, NC
Evolution Loop, Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP, CA
Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail, Castle Rock SP, CA
Grasshopper Glacier, Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, MT
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