Hiking and Backpacking

Last week, we talked about the first four tips to help make your first backpacking trip a win. If you stumbled on this post first, you can go back and read that one here. Carrying on… 1. Don’t skimp on your nutrition. If you’ve never been backpacking before, you’ll be astonished by the number of calories […]

If outdoor pursuits were the skilled trades, I’d be a master backpacker. If it were like the military, my MOS would be Backpacking Specialist. You get the idea. It’s my thing. I remember my first trip, down Chestnut Lead Trail in the Cohuttas with Boy Scout Troop 241 when I was maybe twelve years old.

I’m not a huge fan of the cold. I’m probably the only wilderness skills instructor I know of that doesn’t get excited about camping in the winter. I’m much more at home when the days are long and the air doesn’t hurt to breathe, and I can wade out into the river with a beer