Backpacking trails, as the name already says it all, are trails intended for backpacking excursions. Backpacking is basically an outdoor activity, combining the best features which define camping and hiking as outdoor activity superstars. A trail is a path or road mainly intended for walking, though other outdoor activities like skiing, or cycling happen in [...]

Backpacking is an amalgam between two popular outdoor activities, namely hiking and camping. Given that there is a hiking nature to backpacking excursions, backpackers carry with them only essential items, with careful consideration over the weight of their packs. From tents to sleeping bags, food to on-trail snacks, backpackers have to travel light, as carrying [...]

Backpacking is the combination between hiking and camping, all rolled into one adventure filled outdoor activity. As such, it involves a number of elements, the most major of which would involve backpacking gear types and physical state of a backpacker. Picking the ideal backpacking gear type to suit ones tastes is known to be a [...]

Backpacking tarps are amazing. They are light, and can be easily pitched to serve various functions. Be a tarp be used as a tent, or a simple canopy for resting backpackers, backpacking tarps are ultralight backpacking gear types, ideal for their lightness and their overall functionality. Here are two of the most popular backpacking tarps [...]

These days, backpacking has somewhat become an alternative form of recreation, as more people find beauty and solace in being one with nature. Also known as trekking, bushwalking and tramping, backpacking has somewhat become the in thing in the realm of outdoor activities, particularly for those taking the time to be away from the bustling [...]

With backpacking getting relatively more popular, a number of backpacking stores come in, catering to a backpackers gear related needs, as well as inquiries. With Backpacking being an outdoor activity combining both hiking and camping, backpacking stores stand as avenues for backpackers to beef up their gear, customizing them to their specific needs and wants, [...]

Backpacking stoves. Two words which don’t often come together. When one talks about backpacking stoves, it most definitely would refer to a type of stove, and not the act of literally backpacking stoves. Backpacking stoves, the item not the act, are portable stoves designed for backpacking excursions. As a backpacking trip is known to be [...]

Nothing beats being close with the outdoors, thus the ever popularity of backpacking trips. Backpacking pretty much combines hiking and camping, featuring the best of the two popular outdoor activities. It has become quite popular among outdoor enthusiasts all over the world, and has bred a strong cult following of outdoor trekkers. Being a combination [...]

When one is out of the house or the city, and is adventuring on the wilderness, especially if it takes more than a day or two and the environment is unpredictable and new, one has to think well of how he must survive it, it doesn’t only mean that one has to prepare all the [...]

If one would think professional backpackers would say a backpacking list is only for amateurs, one would be barking on the wrong tree. There is absolutely nothing defining about making a backpacking list, except saying that the backpacker is one who takes the backpacking trip seriously, but even this isn’t necessarily an indicator of just [...]