Backpacking
Feature Spotlight 
by Amber Davis• November 6th, 2012
You’ve never really experienced Colorado’s backcountry until you do it in style! Did you know that Colorado Parks and Wildlife maintains backcountry cabins and Yurts (wooden framed, canvas walled, furnished tents) that are available with a reservation/rental? Some rentals require a lengthy hike/snowshoe/cross country trip to get to, while others are available near accessible roads. In either case, a true Colorado cabin experience is worth a stop on your next backpacking trip! [...]
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Life is Short - Try Backpacking!
by Amber Davis • June 9th, 2012
The phone rings. The boss is yelling. And then there's another red light. Do I need to recount any more of the dirty details of everyday life? Given, there are great things that happen to each of us every day. But with so much regularity in our lives, isn't it time we get out take a new backpacking adventure? I've got several convincing reasons to take up your new adventure, and a great place you may want to try [...]
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Backpacking Colorado's Wilderness
by Seth Peters • March 23, 2012
Colorado holds a little more than 3,390,635 square acres of designated wilderness area. That designated wilderness is unpaved, untamed, and unbelievably beautiful. Translation: Colorado is to a backpacker like cake is to a fat kid... [...]
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Snowshoeing Colorado - A How-To Guide
by Joe Stempien • March 3, 2012
As I sit down to write this article in my home in Colorado Springs, we’ve just received a coat of fresh snow like a thin white blanket. It’s the beginning of March, and in the mountains here in Colorado’s Front Range, it’s a snowshoer’s paradise. The sun shines on March afternoon days enough to sometimes snowshoe the white and green mountain trails in a swimsuit! So if you haven’t yet tried one of Colorado’s most enjoyable winter activities, it’s time to give it a whirl before all... [...]
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by Ben Davis • October 31, 2011
Not all packs are created equal. Try putting 100 pounds of gear (or meat) on a substandard pack and see for yourself. In fact, many backpackers or hunters spend the least amount of money on their pack. They pour their money into all kinds of other gear and try and just “hack it” with a cheap pack. Big mistake. Here’s what you need to look for when choosing a pack [...]
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Camping and Backpacking Safety
by Ben Sabo • August 23, 2011
Every year, my family and I schedule at least one or two summer weekend trips to a beautiful streamside campground in the mountains outside Colorado Springs. We always have a lot of fun-fishing, hiking, and telling scary ghost stories around the campfire make up our daily activities. I never really concerned myself camping and backpacking until the summer of 2010. It was the first night [...]
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by Andrew Davis • August 11, 2011
Many people pay little to no attention to how they load their pack and suffer unnecessary pain and discomfort because of it. Backpackers, campers, and wilderness hunters alike often head out on the trail with a pack that doesn’t ride on their back the way it was intended to. They just start cramming without any rhyme [...]
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