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

Loktev hasn’t completed a film since 2011’s “The Loneliest Planet,” which starred Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg as soon-to-be-wed lovers backpacking through the Georgian countryside, their seemingly close bond shattered after a harrowing encounter.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

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

“My boyfriend, Paolo, is backpacking around the world,” she continued.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart