Our host at The Discerning Hiker dropped us off at the Pidgeon River Bridge, right where he picked us up, and I started hiking. I had pretty good cell phone service, which we didn’t have at the hostel, so I took advantage of that to make some phone calls while I was hiking. While I …
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 …