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How To Pack For A Weeklong Trip

When your normal menu consists of overnight adventures, it's easy to forget key items that can derail your plans. These hints can help.
Photos by Jennifer Howe / howephoto.us
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  • 1: First step, check weather and terrain, so you'll know what to take.
  • 2: Work off a packing list separated into Clothing, Shelter, Kitchen, Travel, and Miscellaneous.
  • 3: Lay everything out in a clear, open space, keeping items groups into packing list categories.
  • 4: Once you've assembled everything, trim out unneeded luxuries, because a week's food and fuel makes for heavy loads anyway.
  • 5: Then check for critical, trip-ending items you might have forgotten.
  • 6: Load your pack to make sure it all fits.
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1: First step, check weather and terrain, so you'll know what to take.
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1: First step, check weather and terrain, so you'll know what to take.

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What a worthless article!!
— Jim from SD

How many sleeping bags does Howe have on that shelf back there??
— sierracanon

So how is this different than any other trip plan?
— Cynnel

That was the most pathetic excuse for advise I have ever seen. Who would ever want to by the magazine with crappy generic advise like that.
— thaddeus

Plan your enu. For a week long trip this is one of the most important items to pland and pack, in order.
— Board Dog

WEAK! Come on Backpacker! There's too little information in this for you to have wasted my precious time!
— Fred

gotta love nature
— warren

Not to be too critical but that was totally useless. Title of article - how to pack for a week long trip. Message presented - sort your stuff and put it in the pack to make sure it fits...really?
— Anonymous

It's not too late. Redo the article into something helpful.
— Paul

I think this was meant to be comedy.
— Jerry


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