backpacking

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I saw these and many other otherworldly species while on a life-changing backpacking trip to the island five years ago, which I chronicled for this newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The Gatlinburg, Tenn., company offers special viewing tours and backpacking trips in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

She got a job, found a partner, started running, and booked backpacking trips.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Its parking situation was inconvenient, bordering on inaccessible, and the journey from curb to gate and vice versa was the airport version of backpacking the Appalachian Trail.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

It’s hard to do that when you’re backpacking in Nepal.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben