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Backpacking 100

Backpacking 100. What is (Wilderness) Backpacking?. Overnight (or longer) hiking. You're carrying everything you need (except possibly water) to camp out in the wilderness one or more nights. What is NOT (Wilderness) Backpacking.

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Backpacking 100

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  1. Backpacking 100

  2. What is (Wilderness) Backpacking? • Overnight (or longer) hiking. • You're carrying everything you need (except possibly water) to camp out in the wilderness one or more nights.

  3. What is NOT (Wilderness) Backpacking • Urban backpacking - low cost travel (Students take the summer off, get a Eurail pass, and stay is hostels) • Day hiking • Car camping • Hut camping • Canoe/Kayak/Raft camping • Bicycle camping • Animal packing (horses, mules, llamas) • Trekking, Tramping, Bushwalking (sometimes use shelters, huts, hostels, or hotels) • Through hiking (sometimes use shelters and/or huts) • Mountaineering (sometimes use huts) • Ski touring (sometimes use huts)

  4. Why People Backpack 1. They like hiking with a bunch of crap on their back 2. Backpacking allows us to go places we couldn't go otherwise

  5. Introductions and Experience

  6. "10 Essentials" (Mountaineers) • 1. Navigation (map and compass) • 2. Sun protection • 3. Insulation (extra clothing) • 4. Illumination (flashlight/headlamp) • 5. First-aid supplies (especially for blisters) • 6. Fire (waterproof matches/lighter) • 7. Repair kit and tools • 8. Nutrition (extra food) • 9. Hydration (extra water) • 10. Emergency shelter (tent/plastic tube tent/garbage bag)

  7. Equipment • Weight is the key (Minimize weight ~20 lbs. Minimize bulk) • Boots • Backpack, Rucksack (5 lbs) • Shelter (1-5 lbs) • Sleeping bag (2 lbs) • Sleeping pad(s) (2 lbs) • Clothes (1-5 lbs. Avoid cotton) • Rain protection (1 lb) • Food (Maximize calories. Minimize weight)

  8. Equipment (Continued) • Stove + fuel + pot (2 lbs) • Water purification • Water containers (1 lb + 2 lbs per quart or liter of water) • Toilet paper • Hand sterilizer • Zip lock bags • Ear plugs • Sun protection (sunscreen, hat, sunglasses) • Insect protection (repellent, or net) • Hiking poles • Signaling devices (whistle, mirror, or cell phone) • Bungee cords and/or Velcro to strap things to outside of pack • Headlamp • Camera

  9. Dangers/Annoyances • Animals (use animal proof containers or hang your food, toothpaste, soap, other aromatics, don't keep them in your tent) • Weather (rain, cold, lightning) • Bugs (chiggers, mosquitoes, ticks, scorpions, spiders) • Poison Ivy, Poison Oak • Blisters • Other people

  10. Locations (Texas) • Near Austin • Enchanted Rock • Pedernales Falls State Park • Bastrop State Park (Lost Pines Hiking Trail) • Lost Maples State Park • Lake Georgetown • Colorado Bend State Park • Further away, but still in Texas • Big Bend • Guadalupe Mountains (carry water) • Davis Mountains • Lone Star Trail

  11. Locations (Continental US) • Wilderness areas • White Mountains (New Hampshire) • Adirondacks (New York) • Yosemite National Park (California) • Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming, Montana, Idaho) • Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado) • Unsupported through-hikes • Wonderland Trail (Mt. Rainer) • Appalachian Trail • John Muir Trail, Pacific Crest Trail • Continental Divide Trail • Mountaineering (Slow ascents allow time to acclimatize) • Mt. Rainier (Washington) • Mt. Shasta (California) • Hoh River Trail, Mt. Olympus (Washington)

  12. Locations (Rest of the World) • Denali National Park, Alaska • Kauai, Hawaii • A lot of places have hut systems (Swiss Alps, New Zealand) • Other places have porters (Kilimanjaro)

  13. More Information • Austin Backpackers • http://backpackers.meetup.com/170 • Wikipedia • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacking_(wilderness) • Easy Backpacking Tips • http://www.easybackpackingtips.com • Austin Explorer • http://www.austinexplorer.com/hiking • Texas Parks & Wildlife • http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us • REI • http://www.rei.com • Mountaineers 10 Essentials • http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/client/client_pages/Media%20Archives/mtn_media_TenEssentials.cfm

  14. Austin Backpackers Meetup Homepage

  15. Austin Backpackers Meetup Homepage (Continued)

  16. Questions

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