Megahiking: The 12,500-mile All-in Trek

Sam Gardner plans to hike the North Country Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Appalachian Trail back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

Look out, Andrew Skurka: Someone's gunning for your job. Michigander Samuel Gardner just began the All-In Trek on Jan. 1—through hiking the North Country Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Appalachian Trail back-to-back-to-back-to-back (with plane flights in between to trailheads). In one year. That's 12,500 miles of hiking to make your calves explode with the thought. Read Full Story...

Thursday, February 10, 2011 in: News and Events

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Dam Release Threatens Grand Canyon Chub

A dam release meant to protect the Grand Canyon's endangered humpback chub has an unintended consequence: releasing more chub-eating rainbow trout

In a move that drew deep on its inner Homer Simpson, the Bureau of Federal Reclamation caused an artificial flood in 2008 by releasing water from the Glen Canyon Dam with the purpose of restoring habitat for the imperiled humpback chub, a minnow-like fish endemic to the Colorado river. But the flood also increased the rainbow trout population by 800 percent. The bad news? Rainbow trout eat humpback chub.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011 in: News and Events, Nature and Wildlife

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National Park Free Days 2011

NPS continues popular program of waiving entrance fees for certain days

"Jobless recovery" still wracking your wallet? That's still no excuse not to hit up a national park. Just in time to help your broke self, the National Park service announced its free admission days for 2011. The remaining fee-free days are (drumroll, please): Read Full Story...

Wednesday, February 09, 2011 in: News and Events

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Kili Climb Comes Through

Rock n' roll peakbaggers make good on fighting cancer, as Tanzania opens its first children's cancer ward

Some charity hikes raise "awareness." This one raised a roof. Literally. In our June 2010 story "High Note," Nick Heil reported on the music-meets-mountaineering mash-up of Love Hope Strength. He joined Mike Peters of the Alarm and other rockers on Mt. Kilimanjaro, where two dozen trekkers climbed to the 19,341-foot summit and raised money to help bring cancer treatment to Tanzania. (See a photo gallery of the climb here.) Read Full Story...

Wednesday, February 09, 2011 in: News and Events

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Free Print & Go Trip Planners

Get a jump on your summer hiking dream trips with free Print & Go planners!

Most of the country is buried in Arctic snow and chill; not exactly great hiking weather, but the perfect time to kickstart the summer-hike dream factory. We're here to help: With BACKPACKER's Print & Go trip planners, you'll get all the beta you need for incredible weekend hikes in every part of the country.

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Tuesday, February 08, 2011 in: News and Events, Destinations

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Bear Scared By Country Music

Colorado wildlife officials shoo a napping black bear out from under a hospital with blaring music--country music, obviously.

Bears: All that fur, teeth, and claws, and all it takes to scare one away is a little blaring country music. Colorado Division of Wildlife specialists chose to use this method to spook a bear who'd taken up residence beneath housing on Boulder Community Hospital property.

They discovered the bear when a plumber checking pipes underneath the residence heard a growl and shined his light on a waking bruin. Read Full Story...

Tuesday, February 08, 2011 in: News and Events, Nature and Wildlife, Weird and Funny

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As Bad As It Sounds: Mountaintop Removal

Vice TV releases a free documentary on environmentally devastating mountaintop removal practices in West Virginia's coal industry

In BACKPACKER's March Issue, contributing editor Tracy Ross followed the evangelical environmental movement as they fought against mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia ("Hike. Pray. Protest." p. 80).

Now VBS TV is webcasting a documentary investigating mountaintop removal, and it's worth a watch. Hipster-host smugness aside, it's a solid primer for what's at stake, and well worth the 20 minutes you'd otherwise blow playing Angry Birds. Read Full Story...

Monday, February 07, 2011 in: News and Events, Environment and Green Living, Weird and Funny

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North Cascades' Disappearing Grizzlies

Wildlife biologists argue for reintroduction to augment Washington's dwindling grizzly bear population

Bet you didn't know this: Washington has grizzlies. It just doesn't have many—the last time anyone spotted a genuine griz in the North Cascades was 15 years ago. While wildlife biologists think the population still exists, the members number probably less than 20. Surprising news, given that the area is remote enough to support astonishing recoveries for wolves, lynxes, and wolverines.

This is especially disheartening since the North Cascades represents some of the best grizzly habitat in the Lower 48; wildlife biologists think the region could support as many as 200-400 individuals. But they won't be able to make it on their own: The nearest breeding population is a similarly embattled group on the Canadian side of the border, and it's unlikely the current residents have the genetic strength to make it on their own. Read Full Story...

Monday, February 07, 2011 in: Nature and Wildlife

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Happy International Year of Forests!

National Forest Service and the U.N. join forces to celebrate worldwide forests

Exactly how does one celebrate International Year of Forests? Do you hug a tree? (Too obvious.) Plant a tree? (Earth day's got that one.) Build trails in a forest? (A year's a long time to lug a pulaski.)

Luckily, the U-to-tha-S.F.S. has your back: They kicked off a year's worth of events with an all-star gala at New York's Lincoln Center. Obama called in sick (stupid economy), but Forest Service honcho Tom Tidwell led a "high-profile roundtable discussion on 'Forests for people.'" Ahem. Read Full Story...

Friday, February 04, 2011 in: News and Events, Environment and Green Living, Weird and Funny

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More Grand Canyon Flights, Less Noise

A controversial plan by the National Park Service will increase flight-seeing tours while decreasing noise—if it works

In a bid to ease the tension between air-tour operators and hikers/nature lovers, the park service is introducing a plan they say will increase flight-seeing tours while also reducing air traffic noise over the Grand Canyon. If you're like us, your first response might be: huh?

It goes something like this: The park service will allow 8,000 more flight-seeing tours a year to keep commercial pilots happy. But they will require tour operators to implement quiet technology over the next 10 years, and they will re-route all flight patterns for non-tour flights so they don't create noise over the Grand Canyon.
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Friday, February 04, 2011 in: News and Events

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Some of My Favorite Things

In which I answer a reader question from last week's survey

Campfire map scribbling. October in the Absarokas. Pic: howephoto.us

Last week I asked readers what they’d like to see in this blog. I’ll try and address those responses one at a time, in between some other subjects.

First up: “I like the occasional updates on gear you're testing but how about something on the old reliable type of items you just can't do without? --Chris”

Well, for the most part I don’t have a lot of “old reliable” items, except for boots that fit my weird feet, because most older gear isn’t as good as the new stuff. Never was; never will be. When you test a ton of gear, in direct comparisons, you realize that often the "old favorite" you were in love with is just nostalgia, the "golden sieve of memory," and the fact that you haven't sampled much of the market. But I’m not big on the latest and greatest either, because I’ve been testing gear for 20 years, and I’m seriously jaded.

That said, here’s what I’m currently in love with, and will probably stand the test of time:

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Monday, January 11, 2010 in: Survival, Skills & tips

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New Year's Resolution: Learn to Use Your Safety Gear

With tales, and links to user manuals for map, compass, common beacons and GPS receivers

Big Wilderness, Little Human. Approaching Conness Lakes, Sierra High Route. Pic: howephoto.us

Three recent incidents illustrate a common phenomenon: Hikers not knowing how to use the emergency equipment or skills they’ve got. Hey, we all get careless occasionally, but some of us get spanked much harder than others for the lapse. To wit:

Four times over the last half of December, rescue teams in Colorado had to chase after false Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) alerts that went off in the vicinity of Berthoud Pass, a popular roadside ski touring area in central Colorado. Each time, there was no emergency.

All alerts were from the same beacon, an older, non-gps-enabled model that only narrowed the search to a 12-mile radius. Local authorities assumed the alerts were from someone who didn’t know that PLBs mobilize everyone from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to the U.S. Air Force (Rescue) Coordination Center, to the local rescue team. They issued a press statement asking the person to call them for instructions, or stop using the device. The alerts stopped. Spank level: 0 of 1. Total skate.

On November 28^th, Robert Sumrall, 67, got lost in sub-freezing conditions in New Mexico's remote Black Range despite being a fit, experienced hiker - who’d been lost and found before by searchers. He carried food, water, a sweatshirt, jeans, a 38-caliber pistol, and a GPS, in part due to the previous search incident. Unfortunately, Sumrall got lost again, this time on a November/December hike at 8,200 feet elevation with no cold weather gear, flashlight, or firestarting materials. Searchers looked for seven days as 10 inches of snow fell on the region, temperatures plummeted to the high 20s, and winds hit 20 mph. Sumrall apparently either couldn’t or didn’t use the GPS to retrace his way to trailhead, because he ended up nearly 15 miles from his parked car, and was found by sheer chance when... Read Full Story...

Tuesday, January 05, 2010 in: Survival, Skills & tips

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2010: A Quick Pulse Questionaire

In which I ask readers: What the hail do you people want?

Dipping a line in the waters, Uinta Highline Trail, Utah. Pic: howephoto.us

Quick question here as we all dive into post-Holiday biz madness:

What subjects would you like to see covered in The Pulse for 2010?

Step up and swing in the comments section below. I'll try and provide.

--Steve Howe
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Monday, January 04, 2010 in: Survival, Questionaire

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No Holiday Rest for the SAR Crews

2009's Odometer Turns Over With a Flurry of Incidents

Skiing in Bryce Canyon National Park. Image: Howephoto.us

OK campers, while you - like all my editors - may have been on vacation over the Xmas Holidays, trouble - and myself - were not. Here is a novella-length list of the more stand-out emergencies:

Scottish Avalanches Kill Three, Injure Another
Ten days of unusually of cold, dry weather in the Scottish Highlands resulted in hardpacked snow overlain by a layer of surface hoar that became buried by subsequent snowfalls, forming a weak layer for slab avalanches, with tragic results. On Wednesday, December 30th, two climbers were killed in the Coire Na Ciste area of Ben Nevis, highest point in the U.K., one was rescued from Liathach in the Torridon Range, but later died, and two more were rescued from Beinn an Dothaidh. A search was underway Wednesday night for a fourth missing climber. Surface hoar and depth hoar are rare phenomena in warm, wet maritime climates like the British Isles, and apparently climbers have been caught unawares.

Seven Die in Italian Avalanches
On sunday, December 27th, two Italian tourists went missing in Val Lasties, in the Dolomites of northern Italy. The two apparently died in an avalanche. Seven members of a rescue team who were searching for them were caught by a gigantic slide that carried them 1,300 vertical feet down-slope. Four of the rescuers were killed. In another nearby incident, a 14-year-old German skiers was caught and died instantly. Avalanche danger remains high throughout the Alps.

The Trouble with Parachutes
On that same Sunday, two men took "speed gliders" to the summit of Quandary Peak, a very accessible 14er just south of Breckenridge, Colorado, and launched down the 2.5-mile East Ridge. Read Full Story...

Thursday, December 31, 2009 in: Survival, News and Events

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Escape to Oblivion

Ever want to chuck it all and sail away, like these two?

Merry Christmas campers! This holiday blog post comes in the form of a shout-out to two of my in-laws, Jeff and Nancy Kirstein. And why, you may rightly ask, is this relevant to Backpacker types?

Well, because wilderness travel is, at heart, all about escaping the drudgery of feedlot civilization and immersing yourself in the real world. You don't necessarily need a backpack to do that. Let us consider for a moment that most time-honored form of escape: sailing off into uncharted waters, ultima thule, 'here be dragons' country.

Throughout history, thousands of adventurers have weighed anchor and literally tried to sail off the edge of the earth. Erik the Red did it in 982 AD, when he discovered Greenland. Leif Erikson (Red's son), probably made it to the American northeast. St. Brendan the Irish monk navigator might have reached America in the 6th century. Chinese junks apparently landed in Brazil in 1421. Seventy one years later Christobal Columbo definitely washed up in the Caribbean, and Italian Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot to the English who employed him) tagged Nova Scotia on the North American mainland in 1487. And then there's Vasco de Gamma, Magellan, Francis Drake, Captain Cook, George Vancouver, Jack Sparrow...you get the idea.

Yes, they were all global explorers, but the exploration was really a convenient excuse to escape 'syphillisation' and find something more exciting or rewarding - Just like it is for modern backpackers.

Well, Jeff and Nancy are following that proud tradition. Read Full Story...

Thursday, December 24, 2009 in: Survival, Humor/funny

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Solstice SAR Roundup

Heads up! In this season of hope and joy, there's plenty of trouble if you want it.

Tis the season for celebration, campers, because we've turned that solstice corner. Ever since 12:47 p.m. on Monday, your days - and your daily outdoor fun window - have been getting longer, not to mention warmer, courtesy of earth's 23.5-degree axial tilt relative to its orbital plane. But it's still winter, and that cold, hard fact is reflected in a lot of recent mishaps.

While the media continues to handwring about the three unfortunate climbers on Mt. Hood, there was no shortage of similar occurrences which didn't make the headlines. They all serve to show us the reduced safety margin that cold, short days, and harsh weather bring this time of year.

Last weekend a Kirkland, Washington couple who were skiing and snowshoeing in Mt. Rainier National Park got stranded overnight and survived by building a snowcave. A major search was gearing up, but they walked out on their own.

Another couple, training for a March adventure race near Aspen, Colorado, got caught in gathering storm when they failed to locate the Goodwin-Greene Cabin south of Aspen Mountain Ski Area. Read Full Story...

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 in: Survival, News & events, Skills & tips

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A Sport is Born

And clearly, X-gamers need to step it up.

Sigh. There are times when I wonder why I even bother to write about survival situations and techniques, given the human propensity to walk a tightrope edge between life and death, even in the most recreational settings. Clearly, some people out there want to die. As proof, witness the new Euro sport of Buggy rollin'.

And to answer your first question: No, the road is not closed to traffic.
To answer your second question: Yes, those posts are apparently concrete.
To answer your third question: I have no idea where you can buy the gear.

Video - Descente de cote en BuggyRollin

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Friday, December 18, 2009 in: Survival, News & Events

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Wednesday Rescue Round-Up

Mount Hood, Canyon Rescue, and the Tetons get a SAR HQ maybe

Hey campers! I’ve pulled my head out of…Gear Guide writing, and I’ve got a few hours before driving north to a surgeon’s consultation (I’m getting a stainless steel hip "resurfacing" this winter). Soooo it’s time to get back into rescue blogging. Here are a few recent highlights:

Mount Hood Again
One climber has been found dead, and two are still missing, after a trio set off up the Reid Glacier Route (Class II, 50-degree snow/ice) on the West face of 11,239-foot Mount Hood, America’s most-climbed peak. The group took off at 1 a.m. on Friday, December 11, expecting to be back about 2 p.m.. When they didn’t return, family members contacted rescue authorities. Searchers found the body of Luke Gullberg next morning, below the Reid Glacier headwall. He had fallen, but later died of hypothermia. No rope or other gear was found with him, but searchers found a water bottle and glove they think was owned by one of his companions, and photos in Gullberg’s digital camera showed the party earlier on Friday, roped up and happy in sunny conditions.

Gullberg’s two companions, Anthony Vietti, 24, and Katie Nolan, 29, remain missing. Aerial searches of the mountain in good weather on Monday revealed no further clues. Gullberg was the most experienced climber of this relatively experienced group. All three were devout Christians. The search has been halted several times by Hood’s infamous maritime weather, and the ensuing media frenzy has been accompanied by the usual ponderings about ‘crazy’ climbers, beacon use, and tax protesters screaming about costs. The mountain is expected to get another two feet of snow over the next several days. Read Full Story...

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 in: Survival, News & events

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Monday Morning Eye Candy

Eight reasons to be glad you're not a mouse, and the world's scariest hiking trail

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Sunday, December 06, 2009 in: Survival

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Twilight

A simple primer for staying out of trouble at sundown

Sundown in saguaro country. Pic: Howe

Hey campers, sorry for the delay, but I just now came up for air after shepherding several features through the sausage-making process for a March issue, uploading a pile of video files from Alaska, and writing up Gear Guide and Editor’s Choice tests for April. I was going to summarize some recent backcountry accidents, but I got beat to posting by a freakin’ dog! That is so not right.

At least I managed to get in a few short trail runs during the week, mostly by blasting out the door way too late in the afternoon and racing darkness back to trailhead. This is a theme for many winter exercise junkies, and that’s reflected in numerous recent search incidents where victims got caught by nightfall, then had to endure the resulting hypothermic suffer-fest. Hence our lesson for today.

A gearless overnight bivy is always miserable, but in winter, it can be life-threatening, even in so-called ‘warm’ environments. There are far fewer people out on local park trails and bike paths, so you can’t count on help just happening by. And in most U.S. latitudes it’s now dead dark from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m., so if you do get stuck, you can expect about 15 hours of serious frigidity.

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Saturday, December 05, 2009 in: Survival, Skills & tips

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Green Gear: Recycled Dog Leashes and Collars

old bike tubes and climbing ropes go to the dogs

Backpackers, climbers, cyclists. As much as many of us try to minimize our impact on the environment, our outdoor fun can create trash. While there is no use for discarded Gu wrappers that I am aware of, two creative companies are making dog leashes and collars out of busted bicycle tubes and tired climbing ropes.

Colorado-based Green Guru collects old climbing ropes through its partner Sterling Rope in Maine, and makes dog collars ($15) and leashes ($18). Green Guru pulls and recycles the rope cores, then sews quick release buckles into the sheath. To make its leashes, Green Guru hacks off a section of old climbing rope with core intact. It bonds one end of the section of rope into a handle and the other into a small loop that it finishes with an accessory carabiner. Clip it to Fido's new recycled rope collar or any other dog collar, and it's ready for a run through Boulder, Boise or Burlington. Read Full Story...

Monday, February 01, 2010 in: Environment and Green Living, Gear

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Green Scene Gear: Patagonia Nano Puff Jacket

my new favorite winter layer

You know when you find a piece that changes the way you dress? That's the effect Patagonia's Nano Puff Pullover had on me this winter. This super light wind and water resistant 8 ounce insulation layer replaced my fleece midlayers and has subbed in for my puffy on numerous occasions. Because of its weather resistant exterior, I also find myself wearing it as an outer layer on winter hikes and even some ski days. It's way warmer than it looks, but the deep chest zip provides ample venting even for high output activities like backcountry skiing and skate skiing when it's really cold.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010 in: Environment and Green Living, Gear

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Think the BPA Scare is Bogus?

scientists link BPA to heart disease

While the FDA isn't willing to fully commit on the safety of endocrine-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA)--its promised report is months overdue--researchers from Peninsula College of Medicine in Britain took on the task. They looked at data from the 2003-2004 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) which included urinary BPA levels for the first time, and found that 25% of the population with the highest levels of BPA were more than twice as likely to report having heart disease or diabetes compared to the 25% with the lowest levels of BPA.They thought that maybe it was a statistical fluke. When the 2005-2006 NHANES came out, the same team did the same analysis on a different population sample, and they got the same results.

According to an article in the Toronto Globe and Mail, the new research shows that 60-year-old American males with the highest amounts of bisphenol A in their urine had about a 45 per cent greater risk of cardiovascular disease than men the same age with lower exposures.The researchers performed rigorous calculations to ensure that they isolated the effect of bisphenol A and weren’t getting correlations with other factors. Dr. Melzer, who led the study, believes the study underestimates the effect of BPA due to the relatively small sample size.

Following the release of the report, the FDA announced it has "some concern" about the effects of BPA on fetuses and infants.

-Berne Broudy
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Friday, January 15, 2010 in: News and Events, Environment and Green Living

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Green Gear: Nemo's Ditto Wallet

an ultralight billfold made from tent scraps

Dealing with waste is a constant challenge for brands that make anything for the outdoors. Tent maker Nemo had a brainstorm, and came up with a great use for its tent leftovers: the Ditto Wallet. Made from old tents and factory floor fabric scraps, as well as manufacturing seconds from Nemo's tent fabric supplier, the Ditto has a billfold, three credit card pockets, a clear license window pocket, a storage pocket and a zip change pocket. A Velcro strap wraps the outside folds over to keep cards from falling out without adding bulk. Mine is translucent white/silver/gray with black diamonds of fabric reinforcement--subtle and techy looking. Here's a pic

--though it's even better in person.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010 in: Environment and Green Living, Gear

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Choose Your Tortillas Wisely

Monsanto GMO corn linked to organ failure

It's already January 15th,and I have yet to write a depressing blog entry about how the environment is collapsing around us or how corporate America is screwing the public. Hope you enjoyed your vacation... here we go.

International Journal of Biological Sciences just released a study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, and found that three varieties of Monsanto GMO corn that had been approved for human consumption in the US and Europe in fact cause organ damage in rats, and could in humans too.

You'll be shocked to note (or maybe not) that the original study that proclaimed the corn safe for dinner was conducted by Monsanto after a full 90-days of evaluation. I'm neither a doctor nor am I a scientific researcher, but I spend more time 90-days testing boots before they get reviewed in Backpacker. It seems like an insufficient amount of time to test a possible human toxin. Read Full Story...

Thursday, January 14, 2010 in: News and Events, Environment and Green Living

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Green Gear: Mountainsmith Zoom Recycled

it holds your point and shoot and more

I am a professional photographer, and though I have several large, heavy, high resolution camera bodies, I often carry a my Canon G11 high res point and shoot with me in the car or in my daypack when I am not on assignment. The G11 is not one of those credit card-sized cameras that you can stick in your back pocket. It has some heft to it, and I've been frustrated trying to find a case that will hold the camera, extra cards in cases, an extra battery, and, when I am on the road, the charger. Thanks to Mountainsmith I now have a great option.

Mountainsmith's new Zoom SM camera case (due out in about three weeks) is spacious and well thought out. The main compartment is big enough to handle the camera, multiple mini card wallets and the aforementioned battery and charger in a single compartment that has a removable divider. The inside lid has a clear zip pouch that I use to store my lens cloth and business cards, and the outside zip front Read Full Story...

Friday, January 08, 2010 in: Environment and Green Living, Gear

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Two Weeks on the Mekong

December in Laos

This blog was quiet for the month of December-- I was in Laos, a small country in Southeast Asia sandwiched between China, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, where I had little or no internet access. Laos has the distinction of being the most bombed country ever in the history of the planet--US forces would drop their unused bombs there en route back to their base during the Vietnam war--likely figuring that it was an uninhabited patch of jungle. As a traveler I was poignantly aware of this fact. All over the city of Luang Prabang there are flowers planted in old missile casings.

And it's a tough place to go hiking without a guide unless you want to visit one of the many limestone caves were thousands of people lived during the Vietnam war. (The cave in these pictures housed 23,000 people for five years!)

In many locations, there are unexploded bombs that continue to rise to the surface with time, that claim the limbs of lives of both adults and children, whether they are working or playing. "It's not safe," I heard over and over as I asked about scrambling up dramatic peaks in the central part of the country where I was traveling. "You must go with a guide." Read Full Story...

Monday, January 04, 2010 in: Environment and Green Living

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SPECIAL REPORT: Live from Copenhagen, III

An update from our reporter on Al Gore's speech and more

In a series of special reports provided exclusively to BACKPACKER, Letitia Webster takes us inside the meetings currently underway at the global climate conference in Copenhagen. Letitia is the director of corporate sustainability and marketing for The North Face and one of the leading thinkers in the outdoor industry about reducing the carbon footprint of the products we play with outside. Our very own Berne Broudy, the usual author of this blog has worked extensively alongside Letitia on the industry's sustainability panel. (Berne is on assignment in Laos until next week.) Read Full Story...

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