Backpacking 101
Trip-planning tips, gear lists, safety advice, and other essential wisdom every hiker ought to know.
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Backpacking 101: How to Get Started
Take these 21 trail tips to heart, and you're virtually guaranteed a good hike.
Hypothermia 101
Don't be fooled: Hypothermia can happen in the summer or the winter. Learn how to prevent and treat a dropping core body temp.
Navigation 101: Understanding Your Compass
If you don't know what triangulation is, read this article.
Backpacker Bible: Go Higher
Once you've been to the mountaintop, few other experiences will compare. For soul-cleansing, skill-building, life-affirming thrills, put a big one on your bucket list.
Trip Doctor: Making Junior's First Backpacking Trip a Success
Any suggestions for making my 5-year-old's first backpacking trip a success?
Backpacking Basics
Our 5-step guide to planning, gear, food, fitness, and essential skills
Backpacker's Bible: 10 Skills Every Backpacker Must Know
We've created a plan to help you upgrade your trail time in all the ways that matter: bigger views, more solitude, easier miles, and more. Dont hang up your boots until youve mastered this definitive list of 10 skills and life-altering experiences.
Great Family Hikes: Chosen by the Editors of Backpacker
Hit the trail with your kids on these family-friendly hikes all over the country.
Backpacker Bible: Seek Solitude
Want your very own Eden? Here's how to go where–and when–others don't.
