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Backpacker Magazine – June 2008

Hike It: 4 Big Trips Made Easy

Ready to dial up the adventure meter? Try out your digital skills–and go places most people can't–on these life-list journeys.

by: Evelyn Spence, Jason Stevenson, Kris Wagner

Photo by Bridget Besaw
Photo by Bridget Besaw

Plan It: New Tools, New Rules | Document It: Field School | Organize It: The Cutting Room | Share It: All the World's a (Cyber) Stage | Hike It: 4 Big Trips Made Easy

1. High Sierra, CA
Rambling a granite redoubt

2. Allagash Wilderness Waterway, ME
Floating a liquid maze in the Northeast's lake riddled forests

3. Glacier Peak Wilderness, WA
Exploring a high, wild corner of the North Cascades

4. Hayduke Trail, UT
Finding total Southwest solitude
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