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Fitness Levels for Backpacking Trips
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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How to Choose a Backpacking Trip: Experience Level vs. Fitness Level
We get a lot of questions about how much experience is needed to participate in one of our guided group backpacking trips. We also get a lot of questions about how fit someone should be to join us. The answer is... it depends on the trip!
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Trail Work with Carolina Mountain Club
This week, we joined Carolina Mountain Club for a day of trail work on the Cat Gap Trail in Pisgah National Forest. We helped construct water diversions on about 100' of badly cupped trail. We learned that because Pisgah National Forest is a temperate rainforest, Water Bars are out and Rolling Grade Dips are in! So, what's a rolling grade dip and why is it better for a temperate rainforest?
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Sustainability Update: Vehicles
It turns out diving into a Sustainability Initiative is a lot like trying to backpacking a long-distance trail. You start out thinking it is going to go one way, and quickly it looks and feels totally different than the Instagram images of what you thought it would be. Also, it takes longer than you planned.
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Nature's Gift of Friendship
Good friends are essential for everyone, but it’s not always easy to find and maintain fruitful friendships in our fast-paced, screen-centric world.
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Guide Favorites
Guides share their favorite local overnight backpacking spots.
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One Piece of Trash
What do you do when you see an energy bar wrapper on the trail? What about when you approach a road crossing and find more trash? Or when you cross a river with an empty six pack along the bank?
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Hiking and Ukraine
Loving your neighbor might not stop the current war the way we want, but it could make a world of difference in the future.
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Appreciating the Ephemeral
Guess what’s happening?? Wildflowers are blooming!!! And is there anything more hopeful than a spring wildflower?! So far we have spotted several downy yellow violets and sharp lobed hepaticas lining the trail. These spring harbingers bring a smile to our face and give us assurance of more light, more warmth, and more life.
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Appalachian Trail Fun Facts
BRHC is able to guide trips on the 130 mile section through the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and Pisgah National Forest, from Fontana Dam to Allen Gap.
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