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We take on Swift Camp Creek. Get whole story here. |
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| G.O.R.P. |
The Great Outdoors
Recreation Pages - one of the best sites on the net for backpacking, camping, trek
planning, and destinations. |
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R Station |
If you like
reading about caving, canoeing, hang gliding, backpacking, SCUBA diving, skydiving,
sailing, and various activities that have absolutely nothing to do with Generation X,
you'll be right at home here. |
| The
Backpacker.com |
One of my
favorite sites devoted exclusively to backpacking. Includes articles, journals, advice,
gear reviews, destinations, trail talk message system, photos, searchable database of
trails, and much more. |
The Lightweight
Backpacker |
Backpacking
ultralight promotes lightweight backcountry travel and features lots of info for the
year-around backpacker. |
Backpacking
Travelers Guide |
This is a resource page
about backpacking and traveling in general. It includes where to go, what to take, how to
get there, and how to save money. |
The Adventure
Network |
Adventure Network For
Hiking, Camping, Outdoors, Navigation, Skiing, Climbing, Adventure Travel, First Aid,
Safety, Product Buying, and Fitness Advice. |
| Basecamp.com |
Skills, destinations, gear,
and activities - Backpacker Magazine's web site. |
Backpacking and
Hiking Trailhead |
Variety of backpacking and
hiking links: Backpacking & hiking pages, lightweight backpacking, navigation, leave
no trace, low-impact, online recreation magazines, recipes and food, outdoor safety. |
The Backpacker
Network |
"The Backpacker
Network is a valuable source of information featuring backpacking tips and hostel
information to help you on your travels. I welcome any feedback and contributions from
readers. If you have any doubts about whether backpacking is for you I'll remove them for
you now; Backpacking will be one of the greatest adventures of your life. You'll learn a
lot about yourself and other people. When you return you'll find yourself a new person and
perhaps suffering from the Post Travel Blues." |
| Campmor |
The grandaddy camping
supply mail order outfit. |
| Eureka |
Tents and backpacks. My
Eureka Caddis 2 has been keeping me warm and dry for 18 years. |
The
Lightweight
Gear Shop |
The Lightweight Backpacker
promotes lightweight backcountry travel and their gear shop features hand picked
lightweight equipment. |
| GearPro |
GearPro backpacking,
camping, hiking, skiing, climbing, and paddling gear. Gear checklists, materials and
construction guides |
The Backcountry
Store |
We sell backcountry ski
gear and essential avalanche equipment. Look here for up to date regional avalanche
forecasts, and info on backcountry hut systems. They have lots of backpacking gear as
well. |
|
Tents and
Trails |
Tent and Trails provides
high performance gear for hiking, climbing, backpacking, camping, mountaineering,
backcountry, biking and nature use. |
Backcountry
Gear
Limited |
Backcountry Gear Ltd. is
located in Eugene, OR and specializes in specialty equipment for mountaineering, hiking,
camping and backcountry use. |
21st
Century
Adventures |
21st Century Adventures
'Ezine' deals with interesting travel. Includes articles, photos, advice, "virtual
adventures," and ideas. |
| Adventure Network |
Adventure Network For
Hiking, Camping, Outdoors, Navigation, Skiing, Climbing, Adventure Travel, First Aid,
Safety, Product Buying, and Fitness Advice. |
| Maptech |
Maptech provides digital
marine charts, topo maps, and sectionals with easy to use software. Our electronic charts,
topographical maps, and aeronautical sectionals are high quality, current digital
reproductions of usgs, noaa, chs, nima, rnzn, imray paper charts. |
| TrailPlace |
Information for Appalachian
Trail thru-hikers and the
Appalachian Trail long-distance hiking community. |
| The Buckeye Trail |
This site provides a wealth
of information about Ohio's 1200 mileBuckeye Trail, including section descriptions, hike
suggestions, andan events calendar. |
| Land
Between the Lakes |
Land Between the Lakes
Recreation and Environmental Education Area, located in western Kentucky and Tennessee
about 20 miles outside of Paducah, Kentucky, is a mecca for the avid outdoors person. |
| Jay's Backpacking Trips |
Backcountry backpacking and
hiking trips and links including Black Hills, Absaroka Beartooth, Quetico, Smoky
Mountains, Clifty Wilderness. Lots of good links too. |
| G.O.R.P.'s Trail Directory |
Here you'll find a comprehensive guide to all
of the best hiking trails near you, across the country and around the world. |
Sheltowee Trace
Trail Notes |
Sheltowee means Big Turtle. That's the name
the Shawnee gave Daniel Boone when they adopted him into their tribe. Centuries after Big
Turtle led early settlers through the Cumberland Gap into the Shawnee's sacred hunting
ground, John Muir and other explorers followed in his footsteps. Now the Sheltowee Trace
retraces the ground broken by these pioneers, along a 268-mile National Recreation Trail. |
| Kentucky State Parks |
Kentucky is home to some
of the most beautiful scenery and most interesting historical sites in the country. Our
state park system includes 49 parks and one interstate park with facilities for meetings
and conferences, recreation, camping, sports, education and much more. |
The Rocky
Mountain
Survival Group |
"Our mission is to
provide a central database of practical, accurate, reliable and interesting news, articles
and product information from all sources regarding self-reliance & survival. |
Captain
Dave's
Survival Center |
The goal of Captain Dave's
Survival Center is to provide news and information to help you increase your chances of
survival before, during and after natural and man-made disasters, including Y2K.
Preparedness tips will cover specific disaster types, evacuation planning, food and water
preservation and storage, weapons procurement, caching and survival-related books. |
| Equipped to Survive |
Information on survival
equipment & supplies, outdoors & camping gear & survival techniques and skills
- aviation, marine, wilderness, water & urban survival information |
Wild Foods,
Foraging and
Wilderness Survival |
Self-sufficiency and
self-reliance, food storage, wild foods foraging,
healing herbs, wilderness survival, nuclear fallout and radiation protection,
homesteading, emergency and disaster preparedness. |
|
Hood's Woods |
The Hoods Woods site
contains wilderness survival instruction, information and instructional videos for outdoor
enthusiasts. |
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Active
First Aid |
Excellent Site. Active
First Aid Online! is the Internet version of the official PARASOL EMT First Aid book.
Written by ambulance paramedics with a total of 40 years experience in pre-hospital care. |
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