backpack
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In the video, the man was wearing a black, 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker backpack, according to the FBI.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
“I’m with my backpack all the time,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
She grabbed a backpack with her documents and piled the dogs into the soldier’s jeep, leaving all her belongings behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Thrall had last seen Dawa Sherpa sitting on his backpack to have a short rest as they made their way back towards base camp after arduous days of climbing.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
I tried to focus, but the note stuffed into my backpack kept snagging my attention.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
I assume you have enough money stored away in your own backpacks for medical expenses, emergencies and long-term care.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 2026
What if we weren’t destined to tear each other limb from limb, to yell instead of speaking, or dig our backpacks into each other’s bodies on the train?
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Capybara merch is wildly popular in the zoo’s gift shops, which sell 25,000 capybara-themed items a year: almost 7,000 plush toys, plus keychains, backpacks, cups, caps, bottles, slippers, and lamps.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
Today, high-school students have in their backpacks more computing power than the Pentagon had in the 1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Two huge backpacks leaned against each other in the front room, half-stuffed with clothes and food and waterskins.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Poet Allen Ginsberg backpacked around the Northwest in 1956 with Zen poet Gary Snyder.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
Mann points to American Hiking Society numbers showing 34 million Americans hiked in 2013 and 9 million backpacked.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2020
Tock grew a beard, borrowed a Volkswagen van and backpacked through Western national parks with a friend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2019
She later worked on a fishing boat and in a cannery in Alaska, backpacked in Europe and finally went home to get an undergraduate degree in journalism while attending hotel school.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
Some ding-dongs believe me, though, and when that happens, I keep the lie going, spinning it until I run out of ideas: I backpacked through France, Germany, and Spain with my rich aunt from Barcelona.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
Back in 2010, Francesco Patarnello, Matteo Danieli and Luca Ferrari went on a backpacking trip as friends and returned as co-founders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
In a season when rock climbing, backpacking and shooting the rapids are popular, maybe our reading would benefit from going big.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The soldier's profile notes he loves "to travel, and do anything related to the outdoors; hiking, backpacking, camping, biking, boating".
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Eventually, we started thru-hiking, taking long-distance backpacking trips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
Cars occasionally sped by on the highway, a backpacking couple on mountain bikes pedaled past.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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