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How To Start Backpacking (And Why You Should Try It)

3 Comments / Hiking + Backpacking / By The Whimsical Woman

Backpacking is such a weird concept if you think about it.  You spend a bunch of money to basically become homeless for a chunk of time.  You don’t (typically) get to shower, use a toilet, or sometimes even eat hot food.  You sleep on the ground, you exert yourself to the point of exhaustion each …

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Severe Dehydration on the Trail and a Trip to the ER

6 Comments / Hiking + Backpacking / By The Whimsical Woman

Well, I did it again friends! That’s right.  Another disastrous trip, back-to-back.  I would like to note that none of this is made up.  My life may seem like a joke, but it’s not.  It’s all definitely real. Some friends and I were backpacking Tuck and Robin Lakes.  Now what can go wrong in a …

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When Backpacking (and Life) Goes Wrong

9 Comments / Hiking + Backpacking / By The Whimsical Woman

I have done my fair share of backpacking over this past year and have learned A LOT since my very first overnight trip.  Every experience has been an absolute blast, that I just can’t seem to get enough. That is, until this past weekend at Ancient Lakes in Eastern Washington. Now, Ancient Lakes is a …

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Why You Shouldn’t Go To Iceland

4 Comments / Travel / By The Whimsical Woman

When you think “vacation”, I’m sure you are picturing blue skies, a blazing sun, sandy beaches, a Mai Tai in one hand, and if you’re me, a chicken wing in the other. So flying to an island south of the Arctic Circle, which starts with the word “ice” if you didn’t catch that, is out of the …

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