Product Recommendation: Backpacking Tents

Product Recommendation: Backpacking Tents

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Trango 3 Tent



Since it was first produced in the year 1995, Trango tents have been considered the standard issue backpacking tent for mountaineering expeditions, backpacking, and camping trips all year round. The teardrop shaped front and rear doors fold with relative ease. The loops, that are welded together, secure the fly. The bathtub-style floor is wonderful for protection from the weather. This tent can stand any weather mother nature tries to throw at it.

The Trango 3 tent gives its owner wonderful storage capacity. The Trango 3 also is relatively easy to set up. This allows you to erect this tent in any weather condition, hot or cold. It also has enough room three people fit comfortably. If you are really daring, you can fit more people inside of this tent. However, the Trango 3 is considered to be heavy by those who own it.

Big Agnes Blacktail 3\

The Blacktail series backpacking tents offer a very roomy sleeping area for up to two people. Accessing the tent through side entry doors and vestibules allows users to quickly enter and exit the tent without disturbing their tent mate. I would recommend this tent to any entry-level backpacker, day hiker, and car-camper. For the price, this tent offers plenty of value for the customer.

This particular model isn’t considered the lightest tent for taking on long backpacking trips. Those who use it say it is heavy for the long haul. The Blacktail 3 is not as spacious as your regular tents one may take car camping or day hiking. If you want a reliable tent and high-quality backpacking tent that is capable of housing the more than two campers, and is not too large and burdensome to shoulder for an entire hike, the Blacktail 3 is the best product on the market. The Blacktail 3 tent uses very durable materials It offers more space than most tents and for a lower price than anything else on the market.

Water Filtering

Filtering Water Methods

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1) Filtering
Filters essentially fall under two categories. These two categories include ceramic or carbon filters that remove harmful, and potentially dangerous bacteria. The latter of the two includes filters that treat the drinking water with chemicals such as iodine. Iodine kills bacteria and viruses. It is considered safe to drink by the scientific community. Filters can break easily, are expensive, and can fail you when you need them most. be careful when bringing a filter with you.

2) Purification tablets
These tablets can be purchased at stores such as REI, Dick's, or Sports Authority, and other adventure/sporting stores. Remember that this is not the best tasting method of purifying drinking water. However, protection from deadly bacteria is better than an expensive visit to the hospital, or your life. Iodine and chlorine tablets are the most common in the industry. Iodine and chlorine will kill anything that may be swimming around in your drinking water.

3) Chlorination
This method is definitely considered the safest out of all of the methods, but is a pain in to perform. A machine pumping device injects a solution of diluted chlorine directly into your source of water. This purified and chlorinated water goes into a tank for storage. This is where the chlorine will kill any undesired organisms in your drinking water. This method can be used in the wild, but is mostly used during building projects.

Conclusion
The methods mentioned in this article are intended to remove biological organisms only. This includes bacteria and viruses. In general, they do not take care of any chemical or radioactive contamination that may be infecting the water. If you think that your drinking water contains such substances, do not drink the water. Always remember to be careful when purifying water. If you were to drink contaminated water, you would become very ill and could possibly die.

Cool Backpacking Locations

Cool Backpacking Locations

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1) Yellowstone National Park
One doesn't have to go far a far distance to explore the best views of Yellowstone National Park. It's easy, simply, prepare yourself to for a couple of hours on this this 4-mile loop that leads to a really cool overlook above Yellowstone National Parks biggest body of water. The Elephant Back Trailhead allows a hiker to follow the trail and ascends steadily through the pine forest. When you start to climb the mountain, be observant and scout for shards of obsidian, also known as volcanic glass beside the trail. This will show you signs of past volcanic activity in Yellowstone National Park. The trail peeks over a plateau after awhile , and then begins to go south to the lake overlook. Take a squat on the bench and soak up the breathe taking views of Yellowstone Lake and the Absaroka Mountain Range behind it.

2) Glacier National Park
Cracker Lake traffic one of several showy cirques that can be extent of easy hikes from the Glacier region. One downside of this pursue is that train horseplay failure have pureed the first mile of so into a impure channel, but it's not so bad with boots and the spring unpopularity of the drag signify the tank is much less assiduous than other destinations in the extent. Set beneath towering cliffs, the lactary turquoise blue color of Cracker Lake has to be versed to be expect. It's a strong locality for a leisurely feed. The 11 mile orbed obstruct has 1100 fact of hill gain and while the pursue itself is only pretty theatrical - it's mostly in the wildwood though there are some accurate survey across the wheedle at the poll of Sherburne Lake - the purpose is fine.

3) Acadia National Park
Next to water and commanding look outs, the need explore the many trails in Acadia National Park is the draggle planisphere of Mount Desert Island. It clearly conduct the 110 miles of march imposition, as well as 57 miles of carriage roads, signpost numbers inclosed. Believe me, though Acadia’s trellis are well hence, you can take twisted march and death up well out of your interval, outworn. Last weekend I was shut bis by folks with less particular maps who were quite rambling. Variable in coil up to 16 miles, the sit out twine along the Virgin River, ask a salute-deep-in-moire tour through a stomach with wale surpassing out at 1,000 feet. The Narrows Zion National Park The Narrows in Zion National Park captivate hikers through the narrowest section of Zion Canyon.

Sneeze Page: Reviews/Recommendations

Sneeze Page: Reviews/Recommendations

This post can be considered a list that will be continuously updated over time. It will consist of a list of products and backpacking trails that I have either reviewed or recommended during my time blogging for Tour De Backpack. Remember, this will be updated regularly, so make sure to stay tuned for updates.


Product Recommendation: Katadyn Hiker PRO Water Filter
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Sneak Peak: Water is essential to surviving in the wilderness and should be taken very seriously when looking for proper equipment. I've used both water purification tablets and filters. Between the two, I would recommend backpackers use filters over the tablets. This is for two reasons. One, being that you can run out of tablets quickly. And two, filtered water from a flowing river is the best tasting water you will ever gulp down.

Product Review: Osprey Aether 60 Pack
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Sneak Peak: When my father and I were preparing to backpack the Grand Canyon, we were prepared. We had our our food, supplies, and tools all packed to successfully hike in the Grand Canyon National Park. The sun had set and we were preparing to go to sleep for night. My dad decided he needed to try his ten year old backpack on just one last time before calling it a night.

Top 3 Backpacking Spots
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Sneak Peak: Hello everyone! Today, I will be providing a list of the most popular places to backpack within the United States of America. In the future, I will be providing recommendations for places outside of the United States (Europe, Asia, and South America). These backpacking locations are all within the borders of a national park and are easily accessible by road.

Promote/Analyze My Website Post

Promote/Analyze My Website Post

Today, I will be going over the advantages and disadvantages my website possesses. This is a reflection post both promoting my website, while also reviewing my blogging critically to look for improvements.

What first impression does my design give?
The design of my blogging website is rather simple. The simple CSS and HTML make it easy for readers to view. My website also lacks ads, which in my opinion builds trust between the reader and the blogger. The readers will know that I am posting for them first and not for money. This will create an incentive for readers to continue following my posts and perhaps purchase some merchandise in the future.

What have I done well?
My posts are well thought out and properly organized. My writing style mixes up sentence structure and can be enjoyable to read casually. I provided a place for readers to learn about the basics of backpacking in a short, easy to read segments that provide a lot of educational value. Hopefully with this style, I can build a bigger subscription base and become more popular on the backpacking blogging world.

What have I done poorly?
I've done a lot wrong since I have first started blogging. I do not promote myself well. I continue to do this by not reaching out to other bloggers, advertising in any way, or promoting my blog through the Tour De Backpack business. The original reason for the blog is to promote the business. I want readers to be encouraged to use my service after reading my blog. To fix this, I will start mentioning my service in every blog post I make. This should bring more revenue for Tour De Backpack.

Analyze a Top Blog in My Niche

Analyzing a Top Blog in My Niche

Today I will be analyzing a blog post posted by the bemused backpacker. The bemused backpacker makes posts intended to educate his readers ob how to effectively travel the globe. The link to the blog post can be found below.

The Bemused Backpacker: Top 10 Tips to Travel on a Budget

What topics are they covering? 
Tips/tricks on how to travel the world while spending as little money as possible. Traveling the world can get expensive rather quickly. Some people think they have to pay premium for everything when that is just not always the case. You can easily get away with traveling the world on a budget if you get outside of your comfort zone.

What topics are they ignoring?
The biggest thing missing from this article is more details. While the Bemused Backpacker gives wonderful tidbits about starting your travels, he does little to follow through with it. Instead, he gives broad advice without giving any real life examples. It makes for a quick read, but leaves me wanting more.

What voice/style do they post in? 
The style of this post is a list with some content written after every list number. The blog post is also advertised as a list. Since I've recently started blogging, I've noticed that lists are extremely popular and generate a lot of clicks. I mean, that is Buzzfeed's entire business. The tone of this post is also very relaxed. The Bemused Backpacker uses simple sentence structure and easy to understand vocabulary to get his point across to the viewers.

Product Recommendation: Katadyn Hiker PRO Water Filter

Product Recommendation: Katadyn Hiker PRO Water Filter

With my tenure in the back-country, I've had many experiences looking for water. Water is essential to surviving in the wilderness and should be taken very seriously when looking for proper equipment. I've used both water purification tablets and filters. Between the two, I would recommend backpackers use filters over the tablets. This is for two reasons. One, being that you can run out of tablets quickly. And two, filtered water from a flowing river is the best tasting water you will ever gulp down.

That's I'll be recommending the Katadyn Hiker PRO Water Filter for anyone looking for water purification equipment.

Pros

• Guaranteed to remove any viscous disease you can pick up in the water. You can even use this product in extremely dirty, non-running water, and it will still work.
• It is very easy to use. The pump has no learning curve. You simply put one end in the water source, one end in the bottle, and start pumping. You'll have a full canteen in about ten to twelve pumps depending on the size of the canteen.
• This product comes with a field maintenance kit to help you fix the water filter if anything were to happen to it. Fixing it is also rather easy and you will thank the heavens if you ever need to fix it while out in the back-country.

Cons

• The filter can be heavy, but it is worth carrying around. Some backpackers like to pack as lightly as they can. This depends on what you want to do.
• The filter is bulky. While the water filter is incredible at what it does, it is big for its intended purpose and can take up a lot of space in you backpack. This is the biggest trade off when choosing use this product because space is valuable.