The Great Outdoors

How I pack for fastpacking

remember the first time I went on a solo overnight trip, teetering under the weight of a backpack piled higher than my head, seams bursting with the equipment I thought I needed for a few nights in the wilderness (or, more honestly, what I could afford as a teenage hiker). It required a movement similar to some Olympic weightlifting competition to get the thing off

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