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Posted by tommangan on April 16, 2008 at 1:11:18 pm EDT
In reply to Day hiker interested in camping, where to start? posted by dax702 on March 25, 2008 at 2:25:41 am EDT

I posted some more thoughts on this on my hiking blog, and got one very good suggestion from a reader:

I’ve recommended that when someone commits to buying a full set of backpacking gear, they should get the pack last. The natural piece of gear that people tend to buy first is the pack, but how do you know what kind of pack is best if you haven’t figured out the rest of your gear? Pick out everything else, figure out your weight/space needs, and then research packs that fit that niche.

I’ve seen a lot of newbies make the same mistakes I did - buy a pack that is too big and then have the need to fill all that empty space with unneeded extras. Or they buy a pack that is too small and lightweight for the load. Either way it’s a miserable hike.

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