Weight is a huge thing in backpacking. If you’ve ever been car-camping, you probably filled your trunk up with whatever you needed (a cooler, a campstove, a tent, sleeping bags) and didn’t have to think much about weight. In backpacking, it is the opposite. There’s an art of packing for a backpacking trip, and you …
When I first heard people moving in the shelter, it was still dark out. Knowing that we had a long day ahead, the group of section hikers who were in the shelter the previous night had planned to start hiking early in the morning, getting up around 5 and getting on the trail at 5:30. …
I woke up, having slid to one end of my tent, the side further from the trail. I packed up my tent and sleeping bag, leaving my sleeping pad out. I took down my bear bag, sat on my sleeping mat, and made oatmeal and coffee for breakfast. I changed into my other pair of …