Basic Backpacking
October, 1977
The backpacking boomIt used to be that you outfitted yourself for backpacking by hiking into your local Army-Navy store. But times have changed. Backpacking and the purchasing of equipment for it are booming.That isn't necessarily all good. In what was once an industry populated by a handful of eminently reliable manufacturers, some equipment is now being offered by the same sort of no-talent entrepreneurs of schlock that brought you the Bicentennial.Fortunately, it's possible to make wise decis...
