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I was hiking a segment of trail of little to no consequence, just today. A warm, Indian Summer sun sat in a western sky, and the aroma of dry spruce...
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Find out more about Abe: Abe Yanko has accumulated extensive backpacking, canoeing, trekking, and wilderness experience throughout much of the United States and Canada. He is an expert on ‘leave-no-trace’ camping and wilderness methods, as well as what he calls the minimalist approach: entering the wilderness with a minimum of equipment, thus leaving a minimal impact while gaining the maximum from the experience. Abe Yanko lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado with his girlfriend Jessica and Labrador Retriever, Sierra. |
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The big three. Things always seem things come in groups three. Especially if they’re big. When it comes to backpacking equipment, there is also...
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* In the summer following my freshman year in college, I took a job as a backpacking guide with Cameron Mountain Outfitters based out of the Gunnison...
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For a lot of people, getting back to nature also means getting dirty. In my case, this is where opposing universes come colliding together. I am a...
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A New Year’s Eve winter squall was blowing hard outside Fort Henry, a dilapidated scattering of trapper’s cabins in what is now modern day...
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It’s been seven years since the Hayman Fire ravaged through Colorado, and a drive along HWY 24 south from...
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One of the most famous adventurers of all time, Captain Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition once wrote in his journal, “No more...
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In the late autumn of 1934, a pair of sheepherders in the middle of the Utah wilderness were rather taken aback when a white boy, no more than twenty...
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The pack is the single most basic, and fundamental tool and accessory in the sport of backpacking. From the very...
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