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Backpacker Magazine – June 2011

51 Summer Camping Secrets

Maximize fun and minimize hassle with these essential tips on comfort, safety, cooking, and finding solitude during the high season.

by: Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

(Illustrations by Peter Sucheski)
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Use your wooden walking stick to dig the hole for your tent anchor.
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brian, uni knot maybe
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what do you call this knot? it is not your tipical taught line knot.
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