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2. Ultralight backpacking - Wikipedia

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   A common ultralight alternative to an internal frame pack is a frameless pack made of ripstop nylon, silnylon, or ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene with a carrying limit of around 11 kg (24 lb). A large internal-frame pack will usually weigh more than 1 kg (2.2 lb), with features such as hip belts, lifter straps, sternum straps, and ...

3. Backpacking (hiking) - Wikipedia

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   A weighted carry from backpacking taxes muscles. [4] A weighted load stresses the shoulders, delts, back, abs, obliques, hips, quads, hamstrings and the knees. [4] Humans can carry weight under 50 pounds (23 kg) in a safe manner, [4] and a weighted carry is as beneficial for the cardiovascular system as a light run, [4] and for exercise, a weighted carry helps avoid injuries.

4. Hiking equipment - Wikipedia

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   Hiking equipment is the equipment taken on outdoor walking trips. The duration, distance, planned activities, and environment impacts equipment selection. For example, a short day hike across flat farmland versus trekking in the Himalayas would call for different types of equipment.

5. Backpack - Wikipedia

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   A 30 L top and bottom-loading Deuter Trans Alpine hiking backpack A 12 L front-loading Canon 200EG photography backpack. A backpack—also called knapsack, schoolbag, rucksack, pack, booksack, bookbag, haversack or backsack—is, in its simplest frameless form, a fabric sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders; but it can have an external or internal ...

6. Hiking - Wikipedia

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   Instead, they recommend reducing pack weight, to make hiking long distances easier. Even the use of hiking boots on long-distances hikes is controversial among ultralight hikers, because of their weight. [56] Hiking times can be estimated by Naismith's rule or Tobler's hiking function, while distances can be measured on a map with an opisometer.

7. Senate Democrats name top leadership positions after losing ...

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   Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., arrives for the Senate Democrats' leadership election in the Manfield Room in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024.