Backpacking

WNC Parent Camp Guide: Overnight camps in the Asheville area
Ages 12-18. Travel camp with backpacking, rock climbing, mountaineering, canoeing, mountain biking, sea kayaking, sailing, canyoneering and whitewater rafting. Blue Ridge Adventure visits North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Other locations around U.S. available. $2,995.

Learn the basics of backpacking
Have you thought about adventuring in the back country, but don't know where to start?

THIS WEEKEND OUTDOORS: Pack lighter, climb harder, snowshoe faster
On my first backpacking trip, I hauled approximately 45 percent of my body weight in a massive backpack to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back up again. I'm lucky my back didn't go out. My pack dwarfed me.

WNC Parent Camp Guide: Overnight camps for boys
Rising 1st- to 12th-graders. Jewish coed (first- to third-graders and 10th- and 11th-graders) and separate boys and girls camps (fourth- to ninth-graders) on 500-acre campus. Riding, swimming, land and water sports, trips, dramatic arts, kayaking, ropes course, rock climbing, tennis, more.

British man backpacking in Thailand with girlfriend killed after taking a bottle of water from fridge
Friends said Grant Harrison, from London, had been relaxing by a pool before he went to the fridge for the bottle and received the fatal shock on the island of Koh Phangan.

Record Number Of Americans Now Hold Passports
When I was a college kid backpacking through Europe, my European fellow travelers were aghast that so few Americans held a passport, while passports were virtually de rigueur for citizens across the pond. ?What are Americans afraid of?? one even asked me. Times have changed. ?More Americans have passports now than ever before,? says Ken ...

Pacific Quest is Digging A New Path For Wilderness Therapy
Pacific Quest Wilderness Therapy is an outdoor therapeutic program for struggling adolescents and young adults, using horticulture in place of backpacking on the Big Island of Hawaii.Hilo, HI (PRWEB) January 31, 2012 Pacific Quest Wilderness Therapy is a program that bucks the trend of traditional therapeutic hiking programs. Putting down the old survival kits of the past, and learning skills on ...

EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES: Beligium waffles to exist, but don't forget about the chocolate
This past weekend, I traveled outside of the UK for the first time. Needless to say, I was very excited to have my first European adventure. The week before I had bought a big backpacking type of bag to take with me on my trips while abroad.

Dear TripAdvisor: Money belts ... Gluten-free cruise?
Lesley Carlin Q: What do you think about money belts? I wore one for six weeks straight when I was backpacking through Europe in college, but now that I'm older and will be visiting nicer places, I feel I should carry a purse. However, we'll be in Rome, and I've heard horror stories about pickpockets. Q: I recently started following a gluten-free diet. We rarely eat out anymore because it's a ...

Off Track Planet: Top 10 Backpacking Destinations For 2012 (PHOTOS)
You've heard of some of these places, while others are completely new -- each has a little something sassy to get you anxious to move.