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Backpacker 1 year

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.

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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.

Amazon.com Review
If you prefer a vacation where you unzip a tent flap to reveal a glorious sunrise rather than waking to a stuffy hotel room, Backpacker is the publication for you. Stuffed as full as a 50-pound rucksack, Backpacker regularly includes helpful tips on everything from lightening your load to finding the tastiest dehydrated foods. Along with practical advice, equipment reviews, and beautiful color photos, Backpacker offers monthly tips on where to hike, with longer features on newly opened or highlighted areas, plus several shorter hike recommendations, complete with directions, trail maps, and information on altitude, difficulty, special sights, crowd levels, and contact numbers. –Ben Reese

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Inspiration!
This magazines helps me get through the year! I’ve planned several trips around their recommendations and never have been disapointed.

5 Stars Excellent value
I bought this magazine for my husband for Christmas. He loves it! He’s read it from cover to cover and back again. It is packed full with information, plus it has links to their web for more information and downloadable maps. This is a great value and will inspire anyone to get outdoors and start hiking.

5 Stars It’s a dreambook for avid hikers and backpackers
Every month I look forward to receiving Backpacker,and usually read every word of it (except the annual Gear Issue, in which I tend to cherry-pick information that’s of interest). There’s also a down side, however, as I always read the trip descriptions, gaze at the enticing photos, and find myself pining to get out and do every trip described (and more), which can be frustrating! Anyone with even a remote interest in getting out and enjoying the wilderness on foot will find inspiration here.

4 Stars backpacker magazine
This magazine is even more than I thought it would be. It covers so many aspects of hiking that there isn’t room to list them all. I would also recommend this to any outdoor enthusiast.

4 Stars Backpack Fun!
This is a great way to lose those extra pounds, while having fun.Keeping your mind busy planning the trip,getting there;and your every move along the trail.

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Camping Life

Camping Life

Family-Style campers exploring our parks and forests. Delivers information about camping that’s adventurous and active, yet still relaxing. Other interests: day-hiking, fishing, canoeing and kayaking.

User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars toooooo much advertising
this magazine has waaay toooo much advertising. the articles are lame, i ordered a subscription after reading a issue somewhere, must have been their 1 good issue. I think i have 3 or 4 of the newest ones laying around somewhere, i dont even think they are worth my time now to read. however, if you need something to start your campfires, order this now. no one will be upset when you burn it.

1 Star Nothing but ads
If they made a television station with nothing but commercials, it would be like this magazine. Had the publisher been more forthcoming, they would have entitled it “RV Reviews” or something of that nature. There is little in this magazine having to do with actual camping. It’s almost exclusively RV articles. I’m not opposed to RV camping (I rather enjoy RV’ing too) but I was under the impression that it covered tent camping as well. It does precious little of that! The most unacceptable portion of the magazine is the fact that it’s just pages and pages of ads for RV’s and RV-related items. I wouldn’t even recommend this to an RV owner as there just really aren’t all that many articles here. The few articles they have are pretty good, but not great. Look elsewhere for a good camping magazine.

5 Stars Great Magazine
I love this magazine not only for the Camper and RV articles but the great assortment of information on destinations, first aid, buyer’s guides etc. And the photography is first rate.

2 Stars ‘Camping Life’ Might Better be called ‘Camper Life’
Although ‘Camping Life’ does contain a nice article or two each issue, the thrust of the magazine seems more to be a showcase of nice big campers/RV’s rather than the experience of camping and related camping activities. I subscribed sight unseen from the boy next door who was selling subscriptions for school. I will definitely let this subscription lapse. There’s just not enough love of camping and the outdoors in the magazine. However, if your camping interests run more to great big RV’s and all the related gear, you might find some value here that I did not.

3 Stars O.k. , but just O.k.!
We recently purchased a popup trailer and subscribed to PopUp Times magazine. I was looking for another magazine also that was devoted to camping and family. Came across Camping Life. I bought an issue to see how we liked it before subscribing. I’m glad I did! While the magazine is O.k., it’s not exactly what I was looking for in a family oriented camping magazine. Seems to me the articles were geared toward upper average income families that just “have to have” the name brand most popular at the time. I felt like I was reading a magazine devoted to “keeping up with the Jones’”! Also, I was a little dissappointed that the magazine only comes out every other month. With as much ads in this magazine, it does not take long to read it.

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Great Canadian Parks Wapusk National Park

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Canadas 7th largest park was created in1996 near Churchill, Manitoba. Wapusk National Park protects an area of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, which contains the worlds largest concentration of polar bears. Wapusk National Park sits along the northern tree line, which is characterized by treeless tundra and boreal forest. During the short, intense summer, a variety of wild flowering plants spring from the tundra soil.

SERIES SUMMARY: Great Canadian Parks celebrates the incredible diversity of Canada’s natural environments, by exploring the natural history and cultural heritage of its protected areas. From the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean, with the great forests and plains in between, Great Canadian Parks discovers what makes each of these great parks unique, it’s topography, wildlife inhabitants and hidden treasures. We examine the elements that tie them together in one of the most comprehensive park systems in the world. Great Canadian Parks offers a stunningly beautiful collection of episodes characterized by abundant wildlife, stunning natural beauty and compelling stories. Host Peter Trueman asks the questions of the people who know their parks, and visits the people who love and use them. It is an exploration of Canada through its Great Canadian Parks.

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