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A listing of backpacking and hiking tips, submitted by people like you, to help you have a safe and more enjoyable outing.Backpacking Tips - Hiking Tips

We have collected some of the top camping tips that the pros use. We hope these tips for hiking, backpacking, and camping safety tips, will make your next family camping adventure more fun, comfortable and allow you to be assured you will create the memories that will last you a life time.

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Be Prepared
Since backpacking is mostly walking, try to prepare for your trip by becoming a daily walker. Some people also shoulder a pack the week or two before your trip so that your back and shoulder muscles get somewhat adjusted to the load.
Be Prepared Mentally
Be prepared mentally that much of backpacking is very hard work. Minimize the distance you plan to travel on the first day or so, to give your body time to adjust to this new regime of strenuous labor.
Beginner Essentials
The three essentials in getting started backpacking are a good pack, a dry sleeping bag, and a dependable stove. Money can be saved by acquiring a simple A frame pup tent, which usually costs no more than 25 dollars.
Bring a Tarp
Taking a 6 by 8 foot tarp to rope over the tent gives usually as much protection as almost any three season tent (a tent designed for spring through fall weather).
Keeping things dry.
A couple of stayin dry tips: Keep matches dry by dipping the tip in way or fingernail polish. Pack socks, T.P. and electronic in ziplocks. Suck the air out of them to save space.

Courtesy of  Nathan Kestner
Prepare Good Meals
It is a pleasure to prepare good meals in the peace of an evening camp, beneath towering spruce or pine or poplars, next to a meadow with the music of a small stream in the background and the yellow rays of the last sunlight hitting the granite cliffs across the valley. Many companies prepare very good lightweight backpacking meals, but don't overlook what you can find in most grocery stories that doesn't weigh too much. I like to vary my menu somewhat from trip to trip, so as not to get bored with the same camp food. Many food mixes require only adding boiling water, such as rice, oatmeal, even some pancake mixes.
Road Trippers Washing Machine.
Take a 5 gallon bucket and fill with clothing, soap, and water. Secure this to the part of your rig that bounces the most. When you get done traveling for half or longer a day your clothing will just need rinsing and drying. That is of course unless your driving down very smooth roads.

Courtesy of  Nathan Kestner

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