Backpacker – September 2019

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 76 BACKPACKER.COM COREY HENDRICKSON Hike Local Stockwell is the only living person to have bushwhacked to ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 77 King Mountains of the If there was a championship of local hiking, New Hampshire native ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 78 BACKPACKER.COM H E MOVES,” one hiker has said, “like smoke through the trees.” “He’s like a ghost,” a ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 79 in every month of the year), there is but a single sentence about JR, written, a tad st ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 80 BACKPACKER.COM few minutes, JR and I just stand on its shore, savor- ing how, in a crowded world, ther ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 81 I HAVE TO ADMIT that even now, in middle age, I look to JR for clues as to how to live. ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 82 BACKPACKER.COM pointing. “Moose scat. Now, there’s a pitcher plant,” he says, elated by the discovery. ...

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 85 Higher Calling Last spring, BACKPACKER readers went to Nepal on a unique mission: volun ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 86 BACKPACKER.COM PH OT O S^ BY (C LO CK W IS E^ FR OM T OP L EF T) S TE VE N^ RE IN HO LD ;^ A LL H AN D ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 87 T HE TRUCK PULLED UP in a cloud of dust and parked in front of a storage shed. More tha ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 88 BACKPACKER.COM PH OT O S^ BY (L EF T) A LL H AN DS A ND H EA RT S^ (^2 );^ ST EV EN R EI N HO LD (R IG ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 89 This page: Trekking in the Nar Phu Valley. Left, from top: the opening ceremony for Shr ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 90 BACKPACKER.COM PH OT O S^ BY (C LO CK W IS E^ FR OM T OP )^ D EN NI S^ LE W ON (^2 );^ ST EV EN R EI N ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 91 Clockwise from top: Passing a chorten on the way to the village of Nar, at more than 13 ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 92 BACKPACKER.COM PHOTOS COURTESY THE KRISTOF FAMILY Nick and Caroline circumnavigated Mt. Hood, Oregon, ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 93 When a father- daughter team tackles the Pacifi c Crest Trail over the course of seven ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 94 BACKPACKER.COM MY DAUGHTER, CAROLINE, WAS STRIDING far ahead of me as dusk settled on the Pacific Cres ...

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 BACKPACKER.COM 95 trail and I walked right by her? Would we find a decent camp spot this late? I grumpily ...