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Inexpensive Gear Review: Hawke & Co Down Puffer Jacket

Brian Kresge
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Gear Reviews

Inexpensive Gear Review: Hawke & Co Down Puffer Jacket

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Hiking, News

Katahdin’s Dudley Trail Will Not Reopen for 2019

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Hiking, Travel

Destination: Siem Reap

Under 4 miles from the town of Siem Reap in Cambodia is one of the coolest UNESCO World Heritage sites in the world, Angkor Wat. Originally constructed as a temple to Vishnu in the 12th...

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Winter Activities

A Jewish Case for Telemarking

This echos a post on my “being Jewish in Maine” blog, Downeast Kvetch, but I’m going to talk less about Judaism and more specifically about telemark skiing. A year or two...

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Wilderness Parsha

A Half-Shekel For the Environment

This coming Shabbos brings us the first of the arba parashot—the four Torah portions that come before Pesach—Shabbat Shekalim. Shekalim is the plural form of shekel. This all starts...

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Appalachian Trail, Hiking, News

2019 Thru Hiker Profile: Hugs and Fecteau

The 2019 Appalachian Trail thru-hiking season has begun, and at The Kosher Backpacker, we want to profile long distance hikers of interest. There’s nothing more near and dear to my...

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Appalachian Trail, Hiking, News

Court Denies Pipeline on AT in Virginia

(RICHMOND, Va.) — A federal appeals court on Monday denied a request to reconsider a ruling throwing out a permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross two national forests, including...

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Uncategorized, Wilderness Parsha

Re’eh: Gratitude for Trail Magic

For there will never cease to be hungry hikers on the trail. Every class of thru-hikers on any of our long trails comes with stories of how the “trail will provide.”  The...

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Trail Recipes

Easy Camp Stove Salmon Patties

Ingredients (parve) 1 slice bread or 1 matzah 1/2 cup pretzels or Osem Gluten Free Pretzel Thins during Passover (Ochlei Kitniyot only) 1/2 tsp Mrs. Dash 1 egg equivalent Bob’s Red...

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Appalachian Trail, Wilderness Parsha

Matot-Masei: Promises

This parsha contains the most voluminous treatment of vows in Torah. In common parlance, we think of a vow (in the Hebrew, neder) as a commitment made using G-d’s name.  We ascribe...

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