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  2. The Complete Walker - Wikipedia

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    The Complete Walker is an in-depth guide to backpacking, written by Colin Fletcher with illustrations by political aide/women's rights advocate Nick Bauer. It was very influential and "could be credited with starting the backpacking industry." [1] Since its first publishing in 1968, there have been three revised editions.

  3. South American Handbook - Wikipedia

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    Over the years the handbook expanded its coverage to include all the countries of South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. It continued to include data for businessmen, but by the 1970s was increasingly aimed at leisure travellers, particularly backpackers following the Gringo Trail. In 1989 the 65th edition was almost 1,400 ...

  4. Gringo Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Gringo Trail encompasses almost all of Latin America, except Brazil, but there is no overland route on the Pan-American Highway between Central America and South America across the Darién Gap. Travelers generally charter boats in Panama or take the ferry. North America. Mexico: Chichen Itza; Guanajuato; Isla Mujeres; Oaxaca; Puerto ...

  5. Backpacking (travel) - Wikipedia

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    Backpacking is a form of low-cost, independent travel, which often includes staying in inexpensive lodgings and carrying all necessary possessions in a backpack. Once seen as a marginal form of travel undertaken only through necessity, it has become a mainstream form of tourism.

  6. Bruce Barron - Wikipedia

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    Barron began guiding backpacking and mountaineering trips at the age of 15, and has since led explorations to the remote jungles, mountains, forests and deserts around the globe. He has explored uncharted areas in the Andes , Himalayas , Amazon Basin , and West Papua New Guinea.

  7. The parents hiking America’s longest trails with five kids

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    Made up of Danae and Olen Netteburg, both 44, and their five children Lyol, 14, Zane, 12, Addison, 10, Juniper, eight, and Piper, two, the family of hikers from the US, have just completed North ...

  8. Ten Essentials - Wikipedia

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    A trowel that can be used to dig a cathole. Other outdoor organizations have variations of the Ten Essentials pertinent to local conditions.. Boy Scouts of America's "Scout Basic Essentials" are quite similar (Map and Compass, Sun Protection, Extra Clothing, Flashlight, First-Aid Kit, Matches and Fire-starters, Pocketknife, Trail Food, Water Bottle, and Rain Gear.) [6]

  9. The Man Who Walked Through Time - Wikipedia

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    The Man Who Walked Through Time (1968) is Colin Fletcher's chronicle of the first person to walk a continuous route through Grand Canyon National Park. [1] The book is credited with "introducing an increasingly nature-hungry public to the spiritual and physical rewards of backpacking".