Backpacker 1995 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
A big but simple pack. (backpacks)(includes related article on Wy'East Log Co.'s Backpackers Log journal)(Evaluation) | Sports and fitness | Mark Jenkins, Mike Randolph, Annie Getchell |
A dry-bag shower. (backpacking tips from readers) | Sports and fitness | |
Alaska cheap! (includes related articles) (Cover Story) | Sports and fitness | Larry Rice, Michele Morris |
An affordable tent for two: plus a bag for all seasons and a pocket-size water filter.(Evaluation) | Sports and fitness | Stephen Gorman, Nancy Prichard, Kevin Young |
A no-frills weekend pack. (Eastern Mountain Sports Expedition Alpine Rucksack, Bibler Pinon tent, Raichle Mountain Trekkers hiking boots)(Evaluation) | Sports and fitness | Sally Trepanowski, Kevin Young, Jeanne Twehous |
Are you ready for adoption?(becoming a trail parent) | Sports and fitness | M. John Fayhee |
Arizona's Aravaipa Wilderness. | Sports and fitness | Christine Maxa |
Arkansas' Buffalo River. (includes travel information) | Sports and fitness | Dennis W. Thomas |
Bullwinkle with an attitude.(viewing moose safely) | Sports and fitness | Jan Ferris |
Cache, don't carry. (includes related article on food and water storage techniques for hiking trips) | Sports and fitness | Betty Tucker-Bryan |
California's Henry Coe.(hiking Henry W. Coe State Park's trail system) | Sports and fitness | Richard Graybill |
California's wild Siskiyou. | Sports and fitness | Thomas Hallstein |
Close quarters. (on sharing a tent or campsite) | Sports and fitness | Carla Neasel |
Colorado's Causeway Lake.(Weekend Wilderness)(Column) | Sports and fitness | Al Marlowe |
Don and Ed's grand vision: two guys decide to get involved, and the 300-mile Chinook Trail is born.(Oregon - Washington state trail; Don Cannard and Ed Robertson) | Sports and fitness | Dick Bowen |
Do women attract bears? No, but they are prey to plenty of similar backcountry medical myths. | Sports and fitness | Cathi Buni |
Editors' choice '95.(new backpacking and camping gear)(Buyers Guide)(Cover Story) | Sports and fitness | |
Eureka Traverse Pack.(backpack)(Evaluation) | Sports and fitness | Fred Keesy |
Fabric dictionary: translating hangtag technobabble into human terms.(The Wilderness Wardrobe '95)(Cover Story) | Sports and fitness | |
Feet first. (hiking socks; includes related article on caring for socks)(The Wilderness Wardrobe '95)(Cover Story)(Buyers Guide) | Sports and fitness | Drew Ross |
Flash! News hounds hit the trail: when it comes to thru-hiking the AT, a group of reporters wants people to read all about it.(Appalachian Trail) | Sports and fitness | Melissa DeVaughn |
For sale: national parks.(selling of public lands) | Sports and fitness | Michael Bowker |
Garuda Trikaya tent.(Evaluation) | Sports and fitness | Peter Cole |
Georgia's Cloudland Canyon. (Cloudland Canyon State Park)(includes travel information) | Sports and fitness | William Ellis Oglesby |
Green edge: the West Coast Trail winds through rain forest, along sandy beaches, and across 160 bridges for 46 rugged miles. | Sports and fitness | Dick Bowen |
Hard rock hiking: crossing talus presents some of backpacking's greatest challenges, risks, and rewards. | Sports and fitness | Brenda Wiard |
Hiking the Grand Portage. (trail in Minnesota) | Sports and fitness | Doris Soule |
Hiking the North Fork. (includes related article on North Fork Mountains, Virginia) | Sports and fitness | Ad Crable |
Hit the sack: sleeping bags. (includes related articles) (Buyers Guide) (Cover Story) | Sports and fitness | Dave Getchell, Steve Howe, Steve Gorman |
Home away from home: tents. (includes related articles) (Buyers Guide) (Cover Story) | Sports and fitness | Mark Jenkins, Kristin Hotstetter |
How do you like your cactus?(foraging for edible wild plants)(includes related article) | Sports and fitness | Mark Jenkins, Christopher Nyerges |
How to repair your skin: what to do on those occasions when a bandage just isn't enough.(The Healthy Hiker)(Cover Story) | Sports and fitness | Eric A. Weiss |
Hut and bothered: the venerable Appalachian Mountain Club, protector of the White Mountains, may be chased from its own huts. (White Mountains National Forest, New Hampshire) | Sports and fitness | Michael Lanza |
Ill wind in California: opponents say turbines along the Pacific Crest Trail will ruin 70 miles of classic trail.(Signpost)(Column) | Sports and fitness | Bill Gibson |
Indiana's Hoosier Forest. | Sports and fitness | Jackson Mahaney |
In praise of the quillpig. (porcupine) | Sports and fitness | Jonathan Dorn |
In the line of fire: during hunting season, hikers need to be loud, colorful, and careful. | Sports and fitness | Carla Neasel |
Jack Wolfskin Rock 'n' Roll 2.(tent)(Evaluation) | Sports and fitness | Nancy Lee Prichard |
Kentucky's gorgeous gorge.(Red River Gorge Geological Area in Daniel Boone National Forest) | Sports and fitness | Thomas V. Ress |
Little devils.(scorpions) | Sports and fitness | Laurence Wiland |
Make a mini light holder.(readers' tips) | Sports and fitness | |
Mississippi's Black Creek.(hiking and floating in the De Soto National Forest) | Sports and fitness | Scott Reaver |
No refuge from the range wars: despite a federal lawsuit, cattlemen still want to graze their herds on wildlife reserves. (Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge, Oregon) | Sports and fitness | Jim Yuskavitch |
Old river, new path.(Virginia's New River Trail State Park) | Sports and fitness | Karen-Lee Ryan |
Paving over the petroglyphs: suburban sprawl may swallow the nation's only monument to Native American rock art.(Good Fight; Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico)(Column) (Column) | Sports and fitness | Annette McGivney |
PUR Hiker water filter.(Evaluation) | Sports and fitness | Peter Cole |
Rising to the occasion: for mouth-watering muffins, pizza, cake, or cornbread, you need a trail baker.(includes recipes) | Sports and fitness | Dorcas S. Miller |
Roadside attraction: a proposed highway would pave over a section of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. | Sports and fitness | Melissa DeVaughn |
Signs of the times (and places).(trail signs) | Sports and fitness | M. John Fayhee |
Soup's on! (homemade instant soups)(includes recipes) | Sports and fitness | Dorcas S. Miller |
Star light, star bright: finding order in the chaotic night sky is easy, once you know the basics. (includes list of information resources and related article on constellations) | Sports and fitness | Karen-Lee Ryan |
Start your own trail club.(the story of the Coachella Valley Hiking Club) | Sports and fitness | Philip Ferranti |
Steady as she goes: when crossing moving water it helps to have a cool head, proper technique, and a good hiking stick. (includes related article on hypothermia) | Sports and fitness | Michele Morris, Brenda Wiard |
Tedium relievers: sure-fire ways to keep from bouncing off the walls when you're stuck in your tent. | Sports and fitness | Richard B. Jones |
Tennessee's Wolf River.(Weekend Wilderness)(Column) | Sports and fitness | Richard Banks |
The art of making do. (backcountry first aid)(The Healthy Hiker)(Cover Story) | Sports and fitness | Michelle R. Kodis |
"The balaclava is yummy": to hang out with serious outdoors types, you must know the lingo.(Column) | Sports and fitness | Lee Maynard |
The big blow. (wind)(includes related articles on wind speed and camping in windy areas) | Sports and fitness | Jeff Rennicke, Dave Getchell Jr. |
The Big South Fork.(Big South Fork National River and Recreational Area, Kentucky and Tennessee; includes trip planner) | Sports and fitness | Alice Daniel |
The cycles of nature.(bicycle backpacking; includes related articles) | Sports and fitness | Peter Oliver, Mark Jenkins |
The fourth season. (winter camping)(includes related article on planning a camping expedition to the Adirondack High Peaks in New York)(Backpacker's Beginner's Guide to Winter) | Sports and fitness | Michael Morris Killanin Lord |
The lowdown on altitude.(avoiding altitude sickness) | Sports and fitness | Charles S. Houston |
The quest for a vision. (spiritual reawakening) (Column) | Sports and fitness | Curses the Trees |
The rapture of the wild. (romantic aspects of nature)(includes related article on romantic camp sites and excerpts from 'A River Runner's Guide to the History of the Grand Canyon' and 'Waterfalls of the White Mountains') | Sports and fitness | Jeff Rennicke, Steve Howe, Barbara Gordon, Kristin Hostetter, Alan S. Kesselheim, Kim Crumbo, Bruce Bolnick, Doreen Bolnick, William Henry Palmer, John Hance, William Cullen Bryant, William Butler Yeats, George Gordon Byron Lord, William Wordsworth, Warren Nelson |
The secret of the perch: reminders of what's important in life can be as subtle as the tug of a fish on the line. (father-son fishing trip)(Backcountry)(Column) | Sports and fitness | William Lonberger |
The super-stomper field test. (mountain boots; includes related articles) (Evaluation) | Sports and fitness | Robert Parker |
The telescoping effect: time, distance, and a wild place can give meaning to life's seemingly random events.(Column) | Sports and fitness | J. Johnson Maughan |
The trail of the fierce green fire. (Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Quetico Provincial Park, Minnesota-Ontario border; includes related article) | Sports and fitness | Jim dale Vickery, Susan Zwinger |
The world according to gorp. (backpacking snack)(includes recipes) | Sports and fitness | Hannah Holmes |
"Things like this happen."(Ben Greene survives landslide but does not sue Yosemite National Park)(Column) | Sports and fitness | Joyce G. Gellhorn |
This trail crew's pros are cons. (prison labor) | Sports and fitness | Ad Crable |
Tried and true.(the most indispensable pieces of outdoor equipment)(Buyers Guide)(Editorial) | Sports and fitness | |
Trouble at the trailhead. (preventing theft from automobiles)(includes related article on crime in national parks) | Sports and fitness | Todd Wilkinson, Richard Bennett |
Truth or consequences. (wilderness medicine; includes related article) | Sports and fitness | Eric A. Weiss |
Vancouver's Carmanah Park. (Carmanah Pacific Provincial Park, British Columbia)(includes travel information) | Sports and fitness | Katherine Johnston |
Waikiki, minus the tourists. (Maunawili Trail, Oahu) | Sports and fitness | John C. McClure |
Waste not, want not.(how to pack less trash when hiking) | Sports and fitness | Annie Getchell |
Weatherproof: the secret to staying comfortable in all conditions is layering.(The Wilderness Wardrobe '95)(Cover Story) | Sports and fitness | |
What are you doing on June 3? A sampler of National Trails Day happenings.(includes information on state coordinators)(Directory) | Sports and fitness | |
Where wild things gather.(wildlife watching) | Sports and fitness | Larry Rice |
Who was that masked critter? (includes related article on the Procyon lotor and on sheep grazing) | Sports and fitness | Jonathan Dorn |
Wisconsin's river country.(Tiffany Wildlife Area, Wisconsin) | Sports and fitness | Vern Holm |
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