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    Hiking Gear Essentials: Filling the Traveling Pack from Top to Bottom: Camping and Backpacking
    Hiking Gear Essentials: Filling the Traveling Pack from Top to Bottom: Camping and Backpacking
    Hiking Gear Essentials: Filling the Traveling Pack from Top to Bottom: Camping and Backpacking
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    Hiking Gear Essentials: Filling the Traveling Pack from Top to Bottom: Camping and Backpacking

    By Sergio Rodgers

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    Trek Packing Essentials

    Filling the Traveling Pack, Top to Bottom

    There has never been a more in-depth book on the complete subject of personal travel, whether for day pack, back pack, or full cross country gear. These tactics are intended for creating the most comfortable and easy-access process for preparing a pack for outdoor hiking, but these same rules can be applied to any travel packing job you have. Even if you are just packing a suitcase for a business jaunt, or getting the family stuff together for a summer vacation, the quick and easy tips, techniques, and tactics for putting your gear into traveling readiness are absolutely essential for the best packing job possible.

    Inside You Will Learn:

    ·         The four secrets to minimize the pack’s profile for better balance while traveling.

    ·         Three fast fixes for a backpack blowout.

    ·         Ways to create Water-resistant space in the pack for your Electronics

    ·         Special techniques for backpack preparation that might surprise you.

    ·         Ten items every Emergency Kit should have

    ·         Recommendations to make nighttime bag navigation smoother and simpler

    ·         The Five items you should pack to avoid getting lost on your hike

    ·         How to Balance a load: The anatomy of a perfect pack job.

    ·         And Much More

    These essentials will give you the insight you need to make the task of preparing for a sojourn easier and more understandable, and will afford you opportunities to fine-tune your own technique, offering clever ideas that you probably never considered.

    We have taken the mystery out of the packing process, giving you the information to make your next travel plan a jumpstart.

    Don’t Delay. Download This Book Now.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuava Books
    Release dateFeb 3, 2017
    ISBN9781386098157
    Hiking Gear Essentials: Filling the Traveling Pack from Top to Bottom: Camping and Backpacking

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      Hiking Gear Essentials - Sergio Rodgers

      Introduction

      The summer’s here and the great outdoors beckon you to take advantage of the great parks and trails that etch their way across America. The allure of grabbing what you need, stuffing it into a backpack, and heading out into the wild is not only a romantic concept but in many cases a weekly or monthly habit.

      Take, for example, Bob. He’s quick to agree to go, but when it is time to hit the trail, he’s still dealing with his backpack. He knows the basics of what should be inside, yet his backpack is overloaded, off-balance and his gear is falling out, no, spilling out from all its zippers, ties, and clips.

      He has the essentials, but items he needed to keep dry were damaged by the water he carried. When he stopped for a snack, the need to virtually re-pack his bag ate up precious travel time. And the uneven distribution of the load not only gives him back problems, but he also finds his gear snagging every branch and bramble he walks near. Bob is, quite frankly, a mess.

      You don’t want to be Bob; in the end he will have gear that is ruined or lost, have problems with wildlife tearing into his gear, and he will have left a trail of unsecured stuff all the way to his destination.

      This book is for Bob, and for anyone who has had the kind of problems he’s had, as well as anyone who just would like the whole process to be more coherent, particular items more easily extracted from the pack when necessary, and would appreciate better balance, more comfort, and ultimately, a better backpacking, hiking, or traveling experience.

      We’ll go over the basic anatomy of a good packing job, food and water fundamentals, as well as techniques to help you navigate your pack quickly in the middle of the night, or in an emergency without disturbing its organization too greatly. We will also go over ways to adjust or even repack on the fly without undue imbalances in the pack’s load, useful travel packing tips for any use, and particular recommendations for dealing with packing in your electronics gear.

      Ultimately, you will have gathered from these pages information that will not only speed your packing time to a more manageable level, you will have a more positive travel experience, and a more fulfilling hike than ever before.

      And you will be able to help the ‘Bob’ in your life get his stuff together better, too.

      1: Foundational Basics: The Anatomy of a Pack Job

      If you want to travel far and fast, travel light. – Cesare Pavese

      A pack is more than just a conveyance device; it is the very framework of your travels, and as we discuss the structure of your travel packing process, we will speak of the various parts of the pack itself, as well as what items should be placed in each compartment and where on the ‘skeleton’ – the frame – those compartments should be located. In doing so, you will have a greater understanding of how best to distribute the load for optimum comfort, access, and ease of use.

      In this chapter, you will learn:

      The Basic Components of a Backpack

      Basic packing techniques that will improve your travel experience overall.

      Back Pack Basics

      For most people, what is nominally called a day pack, rucksack, or backpack, all are considered the same thing. While the niggling details between the carry function and its associated device can quibble incessantly, we are going to be defining them in terms of their function and purpose, not by their size and whether they have a drawstring or a zipper.

      In the pure

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