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Backpacking; The wilderness kind, I mean
Tweet Topic Started: Jul 28 2011, 07:21 PM (273 Views)
dagoss	Jul 28 2011, 07:21 PM Post #1
Smarty Pants Posts: 2,884 Group: Senior Members Member #29 Joined: September 20, 2006	Is anyone here into backpacking? I've done a few trips in the northeastern United States, mostly on the Appalachian and North Country Trails. I want to do some up in Alqonuin, Ontario. I've been to Alqonquin on a canoeing trip but not packing. If you don't do backpacking and have no idea what the heck I'm talking about, it's where you take a backpack, shelter (tent), sleeping bag, and some food, and walk around in the wilderness for a few days. Why would you want to walk a bunch of miles up mountains, sleep on the cold ground, and get eaten alive by biting insects, you ask? You'd have to do it to understand.



Alice Lawless	Jul 29 2011, 08:13 AM Post #2
N64 collection completed 7/29/12 Posts: 1,509 Group: Senior Members Member #260 Joined: January 12, 2010	This is something I haven't done since I was a kid, and I've been spending the whole summer trying to convince other people to do it with me. There's not a whole lot of mountainous regions in South Carolina (none that I know of at least), but there are plenty of camping spots to make it worth the time.
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Ninty64	Jul 29 2011, 09:54 AM Post #3
Senior Member Posts: 477 Group: Senior Members Member #515 Joined: May 20, 2011	I love everything about backpacking and camping, its the biting insects I cant do!! Hate the little buggers!! I seem to attract them too and end up being smothered in bites. In the UK we dont have those huge open areas like you do in the States (those places that remind me of the Blair Witch Project) Edited by Ninty64, Jul 29 2011, 09:54 AM.



TNT737373	Jul 29 2011, 11:12 AM Post #4
Veteran Posts: 1,371 Group: Senior Members Member #567 Joined: July 21, 2011	I don't take trips to places too extreme or nice like you've mentioned, those are really beautiful whereas I've just done that on some nature preserves. It's the silence for me, great way to get away and collect yourself plus your getting great exercise. The surroundings really matter, its a lot different than running through a park, you get much more of a "peace" when your secluded like that, and I like the feeling on occasions. Also people who feel like they need to be the center of attention would not like this, lol. In my opinion it's all about calming your person down and working out mental obstacles. The best way to enjoy yourself without being taken aback by mosquitoes is to just shower in an entire bottle of "Off Woodland Strength Repellent, ha. That will get the job done, then it is just you and the zen of nature! Happy Trails



Mk II	Jul 29 2011, 11:24 AM Post #5
Elite Posts: 4,493 Group: Staff (Ret.) Member #381 Joined: November 7, 2010	i used to go on hitchhiking holidays with a heavy backpack but now that im older my back won't let me pack anymore.



zar	Jul 29 2011, 07:10 PM Post #6
Senior Member Posts: 308 Group: Senior Members Member #440 Joined: February 18, 2011	I like the outdoors, but with the heat, bugs, allergies and asthma, I spend most of my time outside in the winter and spring. For some reason this year its been exceptionally hot and buggy too, the mosquitoes are torture.


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