Product Description Magazine of wilderness travel offering practical "you can do it--here's how" advice to enjoy every trip. Filled with the best places, gear and information for all kinds of hiking and camping trips with fold-out maps and stunning color photography. Backpacker publishes 9 issues a year in the months of April, May, June, Aug, Sept, Oct, and Dec/Jan as a combined issue. .com Review Who Reads Backpacker? Backpacker is written for readers who love outdoor adventure. Backpacker readers are serious about their passion for the outdoors, whether it be a simple day hike or an all out backpacking trek. Published 9 times a year, Backpacker provides expert information on the best trails in America, including GPS coordinates to get readers to the most remote and beautiful places nature has to offer. In 2008, Backpacker teamed up with San Francisco based firm Cooler to calculate their carbon footprint. Realizing that they were putting 5 million pounds of CO2 into the air each year, Backpacker took measures to reduce their carbon footprint, and combined with investment in renewable energy, has efficiently become a carbon neutral publication. What You Can Expect in Each Issue: Readers can look forward to reading Basecamp, which stuffs exactly what readers need without an extra ounce of verbiage. The Basecamp section includes: Tripfinder: Match three different destinations with three different timeframes to determine your best adventure trip. 5 Minute Meals: Taste-tested recipes to make backcountry cooking easier. Life List: A concise, inspiring description of everything you need to pull off a once in a lifetime trip. Start Smart: Where new hikers come to learn essential camping skills. The Next Level: More experienced readers can learn advanced, multi-sport skills. Features: Ranging from Backpacker's stories of adventures on America's trails to gear reviews. The annual Gear Guide with over 250 reviews is always popular with readers. Other recent features have been a Life List of 47 must-do trips and 15 amazing flora a fauna spectacles. Past Issues: Magazine Layout: The editors strive to pack as much information as possible into each issue. The layout offers beautiful landscape photography related to articles. Readers will also find the illustrated diagrams helpful and intuitive to follow. Comparisons to Other Magazines: Backpacker is for the ultimate adventurers. Other magazines in its class tend to focus more on camping and casual outdoor activity, while Backpacker covers everything from the simple day hike to the most extreme mountain treks. Advertising: Readers can expect to find the advertising specific to the outdoor and recreation industry. Most ads relate to either backpacking gear or foods, with the occasional automobile or travel ad geared towards the adventurous consumer. Awards: In 2006, Backpacker won a prestigious National Magazine Award. Backpacker's Basecamp department was honored as the best magazine section within the industry. In 2007, Backpacker was named a National Magazine Award Finalist in the Single-Topic Issue category, which honored the ambition, comprehensiveness and imagination of the recent "Survival" issue.
R**D
Useless advice.
I hike most weekends, with the occasional overnight. I find this magazine pretty useless. The hike ideas are usually the most well known crowded spots. The gear they endorse is overpriced and uncomfortable. The writing style is snarky and pretentious. This magazine is clearly targeting urban gym rats, who are more interested in how they look in a selfie than an actual love of nature.
R**D
Not a true digital format.
Backpacker didn't do anything other than basically do screen shots of the pages. It did not format to a true digital format---at least none that I could find. I had to move the a page side to side, and up and down, in order to read a single page, on my Kindle Fire. Needless to say this was very inconvenient.Another aspect was that there was to be a 30 day FREE trial. Immediately my account was charged for the1st issue. After waiting for 2 months this charge hasn't been refunded. While the amount may be small it is still improper not to disclose that there would be a charge and also to keep it.It reminds me of an add, in the 50s, that said: Send $5 dollars for information on how I made a million. Along came a post card back that said: That's how.Amazon, and Cruz Bay Publishing, can do better!
G**Y
What was a good magazine 15 years ago is just a continual rehash ...
What was a good magazine 15 years ago is just a continual rehash of weight-weenie vegan holier-than-thou opinions. Objectivity is gone, attitude is in. Perfect if you are a poser hipster looking for something cool and ironic for your coffee table.
S**D
Not What it Once Was
I subscribed to Backpacker for about 10 years starting in the early 90's. As other reviewers have said, I used to look forward to each issue, and got hours of pleasurable reading from each one. The articles had real content, were well-written. I felt like I knew the regular writers.My dad now gets this magazine free for belonging to a trail organization. He gives them to me. I always flip through it in hopes of finding an article worth reading. Usually I find nothing. Just a bunch of small articles and blurbs without heart, and spend no more than 60 seconds on it. Sad. Wish I'd kept my old issues.
L**D
I bought this as a gift. It was well ...
I bought this as a gift. It was well received, but a comment was made that it had too many ads. A joke was made that it was now going to cost too much to read it...because the temptation to buy stuff that was advertised was mind blowing compared to the actual intended contents which was supposed to be educational.
F**
Great Magazine
I would give it a 5 Star rating if Amazon were to share my subscription information with the publisher. If I were to purchase this from the publisher, I would get the printed and digital copies plus some other benefits. The printed copy isn't important to me, I think printing magazines is a tremendous waste of paper and money. In fact I rarely buy anything that is a printed copy anymore. Obviously the other benefits aren't enough of an incentive to out weigh the waste of paper or I would buy it direct.
B**O
Super Exciting
As an avid backpacker, this magazine is my new favorite! I had no idea it existed until recently and now I can read up on the newest gear, some greatest adventures to try, and some local hiking paths that deserve to be shouted to everyone. KEeps me up to date on the new happenings and does a great job at getting me excited to go out and backpack!
D**A
Good hiking magazine
Love this magazine. Full of true life stories about hiking adventures. Updates on hiking gear. Tells you where to go hiking. Very informative. And I don’t even hike. But I like to live thru others adventures.
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