Backpacking Hiking Outdoors

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• - Information for Sierra Nevada hiker, backpacker and mountaineer. Includes locations and maps of passes and trails, backpacking checklist, clothing, gear, books, weather and photos.
  
• - Contains informative articles, trip reports, and gear reviews, as well as a recommended reading list and an extensive links page.
  
• - Pictures from popular overlooks in the Catskills with trail descriptions and advice.
  
• - Provides backpacking related online videos, helpful hints, maps and low impact backpacking guides. Membership is required for full access.
  
• - Provides articles, tips, and stories about wilderness backpacking, camping, and travel.
  
• - Non-profit club conducts many hikes and an eight-week school.
  
• - Local information for the Catskill Mountains as well as pictures, tips, hints, equipment, and calendar of events.
  
• - Contains information about all aspects of backpacking the Appalachian Trail, including trail information, gear, and safety.
  
• - A "how-to-guide" for camping, backpacking and hiking, especially for those just getting started. Includes packing lists and a sample 3-day menu.
  
• - Provides check list and food suggestions. Includes pictures and descriptions of adventures in Western Canada.
  
• - Cold weather adventures and destinations.
  
• - News, reviews, editorials, and subscription information.
  
• - Extensive resource includes advice for beginners, answers to user submitted questions, directory of trails, and active message board.
  
• - Forums discuss the Appalachian, Pacific Crest and Continental Divide trails, plus backpacking food and gear. Also includes a photo gallery.
  
• - An online journal promoting lightweight backpacking. Provides editorials, features, how-to articles, and gear reviews.
  
• - Extensive collection of information, tips, photos, and humor.
  
• - Tips, gear selection advice, food and recipes, checklists. Newsletter available.
  
• - Descriptions of trails, maps, weather, campground information, and a library with works by John Muir and others.
  
• - Lightweight backpacking tips, techniques, books, gear, reviews, gear checklists, message forums, and specialty pages.
  
• - Presents information about Isle Royale, the Porcupine Mountains, Smoky Mountains and North Manitou Island. Includes tips, camp site reviews, trail descriptions and a photo gallery.
  
• - A Himalayan trekking web guidebook to the Annapurna Circuit, the Everest Trek and the Langtang Trek. Over 650 kilometers of trekking description.
  
• - A directory of links to information about backpacking and hiking, including gear, retailers, trails, trip reports, photos, clubs and organizations, and the Pacific Crest Trail.
  
• - Basic information and instructions, notes on gear selection, recipes and menus.
  
• - Reviews of tents, hiking boots, jackets, backpacks, and sleeping bags.
  
• - Lists the top treks in Nepal including the Annapurna Circuit, Rara Lake National Park, Dolpo and Mustang, Langtang and Helambu, and the Kathmandu Valley.
  
• - Presents listings of lodging opportunities on or near the Appalachian Trail including distances, addresses, and phone numbers.
  
• - Online Appalachian Trail register for thru-hikers and long distance hikers. Provides camp list, trail advice, and photo page.
  
• - Presents information regarding general and lightweight backpacking, safety tips, and outdoor photography.
  
  

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