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Which Backpacking Trip is Right for Me? (BONUS!)
If you don’t live in a mountainous area of if you aren’t used to carrying a backpack with weight, it can be difficult to tell if a specific trail or trip is the right fit for you. In addition to understanding the experience levels and fitness levels we use, there are a few ways you can assess your own abilities compared to the trip you’re planning to join.
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Which Backpacking Trip is Right for Me? (Part 3)
Along with Fitness Levels, one other rating system you'll see on our trips is experience level. This refers not to your physical fitness level, but to your experience in the outdoors. We are primarily focused on experience with hiking/backpacking, but skills from other outdoor sports can translate well (multi-day canoeing or bikepacking, for example). We describe our trips either as Beginner, Novice, Intermediate, or Advanced.
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Which Backpacking Trip is Right for Me? (Part 2)
Backpacking is a life-changing experience, and we want hikers of a wide range of fitness levels to know they can participate in one of our trips.
Fitness Level continues to be one of the hardest things to describe or define in an objective way. We describe fitness level on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being least fit and 10 being most fit. Some examples of those levels are listed below.
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Which Backpacking Trip is Right for Me? (Part 1)
This post kicks off our 3-part "Which Backpacking Trip is Right for Me?" series!
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