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Why and When to Spend More on Hiking and Backpacking Gear
By Michael Lanza You need a new backpack, backpacking tent, rain jacket, boots, or a sleeping bag. You’ve read reviews. You’ve winnowed your short list to a handful of possible choices—with a significant difference in prices. That’s when you struggle with the question that pushes the frugality... -
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10 Tips For Spending Less on Hiking and Backpacking Gear
By Michael Lanza My first tent cost about 75 bucks. It was a bit heavy and bulky for backpacking. I called it the Wind Sock because it snapped loudly in the slightest breeze, and its poles bowed disturbingly in moderate gusts. (I learned to choose protected campsites.) But at a time when I... -
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The 10 Best Backpacking Trips in the Wind River Range
By Michael Lanza It’s hard to frame the experience of walking for days through Wyoming’s Wind River Range in words. The usual superlatives seem inadequate for describing a constant parade of sharp-edged, granite peaks soaring to over 12,000 and 13,000 feet, all reflected in thousands of... -
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The Best Backpacking Gear for the John Muir Trail
By Michael Lanza So you’re planning to thru-hike the John Muir Trail and making all of the necessary preparations, and now you’re wondering: What’s the best gear for a JMT hike? Having thru-hiked the JMT as well as taken numerous other backpacking trips all over the High Sierra—mostly between... -
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Backpacking the Wind River Range—a Photo Gallery
By Michael Lanza In late afternoon, near the end of a day of backpacking some 14 miles—mostly above 10,000 feet—two friends and I walked into Titcomb Basin, deep in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, mouths gaping open. Forming a horseshoe embracing this alpine valley at over 10,500 feet, mountains... -
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20 Great Backpacking Trips You Can Still Take in 2025
By Michael Lanza So you didn’t plan months in advance to reserve a permit for backpacking this summer in Glacier, Yosemite, on the Teton Crest Trail, Wonderland Trail, or John Muir Trail or in another popular national park? Or you tried to reserve a permit but failed? Now what? Where can you... -
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10 Benefits of Outdoor Bean Bags (the growing garden furniture trend!)
If you’re looking to make your garden comfier, cooler, and just a little more you, let me introduce you to the benefit of outdoor bean… The post 10 Benefits of Outdoor Bean Bags (the growing garden furniture trend!) appeared first on Family Budgeting.- Hoca
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5 Reasons You Must Backpack Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains
By Michael Lanza Chances are that, by now, you’ve heard of Idaho’s Sawtooths—having typed that name into a search box may be the reason you’ve landed on this story. Maybe you’ve been intrigued at what you’ve heard or images you’ve seen from Idaho’s best-known mountain range. Perhaps you’ve even... -
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Trekking New Zealand’s World-Class Routeburn Track
By Michael Lanza We follow the Routeburn Track’s winding path through the dense, vibrant greenery of ferns, mosses, and ubiquitous beech trees of the forest in Mount Aspiring National Park, in the southwest corner of New Zealand’s South Island. The track parallels the raging whitewater of the... -
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5 Things to Know Before Buying Backpacking Gear
By Michael Lanza Are you in the market for a new backpack, boots, tent, sleeping bag or other backpacking gear or apparel? How do you find something that’s just right for you? What should you be looking for? How much should you spend? These are questions I’ve heard from many friends and readers... -
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7 Insurance Pitfalls of DIY Gutter Cleaning
Cleaning your gutters might seem like a simple weekend task — grab a ladder, climb up, scoop out some leaves, job done. But what many… The post 7 Insurance Pitfalls of DIY Gutter Cleaning appeared first on Family Budgeting.- Hoca
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Best Ultralight Trekking Poles 2025
The post Best Ultralight Trekking Poles 2025 appeared first on BikeHikeSafari. The post Best Ultralight Trekking Poles 2025 appeared first on BikeHikeSafari.- Hoca
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The Grand Canyon’s Best Backpacking Trips—A Photo Gallery
By Michael Lanza I returned to the Grand Canyon yet again in April, my eighth backpacking trip there in the past 16 years. Any psychologist, behavioral scientist, or criminologist would describe that as an established pattern of behavior. I confess: I can’t get enough of that place. This time... -
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Extreme Hiking: America’s Best Hard Dayhikes
By Michael Lanza Imagine this: You’re heading out on a long, beautiful hike deep in the backcountry, but instead of a full backpack, you carry a light daypack. You’ve avoided hassles with getting a backcountry permit and there’s no camp to set up and pack up. I love backpacking—and I do it a... -
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5 Smart Steps to Lighten Your Backpacking Gear
By Michael Lanza The fact that you opened this story means you already recognize a simple backpacking truth: Reducing the weight in your backpack will make this activity feel like an entirely different and far more enjoyable experience. But how do you navigate the transition from heavier to...