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On a shakedown hike, first-timers get a low-risk chance to learn how to use their gear and figure out if their setup meets their needs.
ASK A THRU-HIKER: WHAT’S THE BIGGEST MISTAKE BEGINNERS MAKE?SYADRONJULY 13, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThat’s where the shakedown hike—an overnight or short multiday trip with your thru-hiking kit—can help you.
ASK A THRU-HIKER: WHAT’S THE BIGGEST MISTAKE BEGINNERS MAKE?SYADRONJULY 13, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEHikers tend to carry their fears, and by examining your gear, the pack shakedown allows you to dump what you won’t use and pack the lightest possible version of what you will.
ASK A THRU-HIKER: WHAT’S THE BIGGEST MISTAKE BEGINNERS MAKE?SYADRONJULY 13, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEA pack shakedown is when an experienced thru-hiker examines your pack item-by-item to help you shed weight.
ASK A THRU-HIKER: WHAT’S THE BIGGEST MISTAKE BEGINNERS MAKE?SYADRONJULY 13, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThat creates a good shakedown test for your truck and your navigation skills—not to mention your expectations about traveling the peninsula.
HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE IN BAJAWES SILERMARCH 9, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEEven compassion comes across as a shakedown when it’s annexed to the invitation.
CAROLYN HAX: IS IT A PROBLEM THAT WE NEVER HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY TO EACH OTHER?CAROLYN HAXJANUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHe walked absently through the not-unpleasant routine of the shakedown.
THE SYNDICC.M. KORNBLUTHThis money is yours—and you will have a shakedown for the night—only on condition that you stick to what you've said.
DEAD MAN'S LOVETOM GALLON"I'll make a shakedown for myself in the store room," he answered.
THE CHALICE OF COURAGECYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYBambo's usual shakedown was deserted; the pallet where the children should have been was unoccupied.
TWO LITTLE TRAVELLERSFRANCES BROWNE ARTHURWORDS RELATED TO SHAKEDOWN
- artifice
- bamboozlement
- barratry
- blackmail
- cheat
- chicane
- chicanery
- con
- craft
- deceit
- double-dealing
- dupery
- duplicity
- extortion
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- fourberie
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwinking
- hustle
- imposture
- line
- misrepresentation
- racket
- scam
- sell
- shakedown
- sham
- sharp practice
- skunk
- smoke
- song
- song and dance
- spuriousness
- sting
- swindle
- swindling
- treachery
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