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Continental Divide Trail: A Long Way from Nowhere

Gossamer Gear | May 20, 2014
Admiring one of the many lakes in the Wind River Range, WY After the last several months of spending my weekends beh...
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The Great Outdoors (TGO) Challenge Preparations

The Great Outdoors (TGO) Challenge Preparations

Gossamer Gear | May 05, 2014
My husband and I were selected to participate in The Great Outdoors Challenge, a west- coast-to-east coast cross-coun...
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Peak Bagging New Hampshire's White Mountains

Gossamer Gear | Apr 21, 2014
New Hampshire's White Mountains are home to 48 peaks that rise 4,000 feet or more above sea level. When you have a nu...
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Wild Walks in the United Kingdom's National Parks

Wild Walks in the United Kingdom's National Parks

Gossamer Gear | Apr 02, 2014
The United Kingdon's Lake District National Park is 885 square miles with a width west to east of 33 miles, and from...
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Gear for Ultralight Canoe Camping

Gear for Ultralight Canoe Camping

Gossamer Gear | Mar 25, 2014
Many people have the image of a heavily loaded canoe, where a paddler/camper can bring everything. Others think of fl...
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Grand Canyon's Escalante Route

Grand Canyon's Escalante Route

Gossamer Gear | Mar 18, 2014
This backpacking trip has it all – a little bit of adventure, steep trails, and climbing mixed in with mellow, sweepi...
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Friends Hike Yosemite National Park

Friends Hike Yosemite National Park

Gossamer Gear | Feb 25, 2014
Yosemite National Park - What a place! I planned this trip with 3 other friends of mine about 2 years ago. They all l...
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Family Backpacking through Winter Cabining

Gossamer Gear | Feb 24, 2014
Winter Cabin Our family's very first backpacking trip was a winter one. The destination? A cabin in Maine's coastal ...
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Hayduke Trail: A Southwest Adventure

Hayduke Trail: A Southwest Adventure

Gossamer Gear | Feb 18, 2014
March 31st, 2013 was my last day of work and my new job would not begin until May 1st, which left me plenty of time ...
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Sandstone Amphitheatres

Sandstone Amphitheatres

Gossamer Gear | Jan 28, 2014
Backpacking only makes sense because there are lines drawn around it; places we cannot go. Most definitions exclude c...
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Packrafting with Butterflies

Gossamer Gear | Jan 06, 2014
A few weeks ago, two out of the three UK based GG trail ambassadors disappeared into the wilds of Torridon, North We...
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Relationships Forged by Backpacking

Relationships Forged by Backpacking

Gossamer Gear | Dec 22, 2013
The second weekend in October marked our first-ever three-generation backpacking trip. It was a short overnighter in ...
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