Backpacker – September 2019

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 60 BACKPACKER.COM Beyond the Space Needle lies Seattle’s real skyline: Mt. Rainier. See the sometimes-fl ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 61 Follow the Leader For these 12 hikers, local trails so inspired them that they made it ...

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 63 DAYHIKE MULTNOMAH FALLS TO WAHKEENA FALLS Columbia River Gorge Don’t be dissuaded by th ...

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 65 Dawn paints the gnarled mountain faces of the Toiyabe Crest in central Nevada. MULTIDAY ...

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 67 MULTIDAY SKYLINE TO THE SEA TRAIL Castle Rock and Big Basin Redwoods State Parks, CA St ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 68 BACKPACKER.COM DAYHIKE MT. SUPERIOR VIA SOUTH RIDGE Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Think less “da ...

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 71 OVERNIGHT THREE TOP MOUNTAIN LOOP George Washington NF, VA Get out of the city and into ...

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 73 DAYHIKE WHITE OAK AND RED BUCKEYE LOOP Brazos Bend State Park Escape the heat on this f ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 74 BACKPACKER.COM Hike Local Backyard Epics You don’t always need to go far to go big. Phoenix You don’t ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 75 Dallas While not known as a hiking city, Dallas has some surprises. Try the Piedmont Ri ...