Hiking, Backpacking & Camping

General Info

• Boy Scout Gear List: New Scouts, Three-Season
• Ten essentials of wilderness travel: by the expert advice of REI, by the National Park Service.
• Backpacking lightweight - Backpacking & Hiking Resources.
• Blog: How to tie knots
• How to choose a compass
• How to use compass
• Watchu Experience, Patriots' Path Council's trail to Philmont, capped by a backpacking trekat Philmont Scout Ranch. The websites provide quite a lot useful training video.
• Edible and poisonous Mushrooms on Missouri Department of Conservation
•  GORP.com is a place for outdoor enthusiasts to plan hiking, camping, and national parks focused vacations in the US and worldwide. GORP is one of outlets of Away Network.
• TheBackpacker.com - Backpacking, Hiking And Camping:
• Trial Finder - Trails.com
• Adventure Travel and Outdoor Recreation - GORP.com
• Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Hiking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiking
  • Backpacking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpacking
  • Camping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping
• American Hiking Society
• Backpacker Magazine
• Backpacking Light
• Altitude.org: A High Altitude Resource
• Make a Tyvek Groundcloth for Your Tent. - Tyvek 1443R at Amazon.com.
• Dutch Ove Recipes
• Dutch Oven Recipes - Dude.
• Troop26 Parkville (pdf)
• Boy Scouts of America
• How to improve your posture with rowing exercise
• 3 Ways To Improve Your Posture — And Why You Should
• Top 10 Posture Mistakes and 17 Tips to Get Better Posture
• Fix Your Posture with These Three Simple Exercises

GPS related

• Blog: Freeware/Open source software for mapping/geotagging
• GPS Visualizer: Do-It-Yourself Mapping
• GPSFileDepot is a source for GPS files including custom maps, ximage hosting, articles, tutorials, and tools to help you with your projects.
• My Trails-High Quality Trail and POI Maps Map
• How To Load Maps On My Garmin GPS Unit
• How To Install MapSource If It Didn't Come With Your GPS
• YouTube: Making Waypoints in Google Earth and sending them to your GPS; Creating my own route on G.Earth & exporting to GPS unit
• Google Earth Learning: Importing GPS data in Google Earth
• Activity Workshop: Create a free map for your GPS receiver using OpenStreet data -  
• Using GetLatLon.com to find the latitude and longitude on a map.
• How to create/plan route for a GPS Unit?
• You can use the BaseCamp, a freeware from Garmin, to create routes, waypoints, and tracks. Here are some training videos
• ITN Converter is a great freeware and a good one on both converting different formats and planning route simple and efficient. It's quite small.

Local Info

• SummitPost is a collaborative content community focused on climbing, mountaineering, hiking and other outdoor activities. This site is built by its members.
• Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites  Georgia State Parks
• Get Outdoors Georgia
• Tons of Fun
• Georgia - Georgiatrail.com
• The Atlanta Outdoor Club (AOC) is an outdoor event-oriented social club established in late 2000.
• Georgia Hikes - Georgiahikes.com
• Google books: Hiking Georgia: A Guideto Georgia's Greatest Hiking Adventures
• Hiking North Carolina: A Guide to Nearly 500 of North Carolina's Greatest

Inns

• Hike-Inn: The Len Foote Hike Inn at Amicalola Falls State Park is one of the newest and most unique of Georgia's state park facilities.  If you enjoy wilderness hiking but prefer a soft bed, hot showers, and great food instead of camping, the Hike Inn is for you.