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Become a Backpacker Magazine Gear Tester

Sunday, March 18th, 2012
Here's your chance to become a professional gear tester! Backpacker Magazine is currently looking for exceptional people that share their fascination with new products, cool gear, and upcoming trends.

If selected, you will will win two prizes. First, you will test gear for Readers' Choice issue in January 2013. Second, you will become an elite member of the Backpacker Reader Reader team and will be sent on assignment to Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, 2012, in Salt Lake City to write, blog, photograph, and maybe even star in a video or two at the world’s largest outdoor industry trade show. Your job will be to give Backpacker readers a “man or woman in the aisles and behind the scenes perspective on upcoming new gear and new trends.

To apply, send a writing sample and a compelling video to Backpacker by May 15, 2012. For more information, please click here.


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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Win a Chance to Be a Gear Editor for Backpacker Mag!

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Backpacker Magazine is looking for two exceptional men, and two exceptional women, who share their fascination with new products, cool gear, and upcoming trends.

If selected, you will become an elite member of the inaugural Backpacker Reader team and will be sent on assignment to Outdoor Retailer Winter Market, 2012, in Salt Lake City to write, blog, photograph, and maybe even star in a video or two at the world’s largest outdoor industry trade show.....the Mecca for all things gear and gadgets for the upcoming retail year. Your job will be to give Backpacker readers a behind the scenes perspective on upcoming new gear and new trends.

If interested, all you need to do is create a compelling video and send Backpacker a writing sample: a blog-type entry that describes one of your favorite pieces of gear and why you think it’s so cool. To learn more, click here.



Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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Catching up with Backpacker

Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
After being gone for more than five weeks, I'm finally feeling like I'm starting to get caught up on everything. I've finally had a chance to look at a few emails Backpacker Magazine has sent me, and found a few hiking related articles that I think may be of interest to you, such as:

* Backpacker's Q & A with Appalachian Trail speed record holder Jennifer Pharr Davis.

* A list of the "20 Best Hikes Ever"....obviously subjective, but I did discover a couple I need to add to my bucket list.

* Guide for improving your walking skills.

* How a trash bag can improve your survival chances (I've had one in my backpack for years).

* 5 Steps to Saving Lives - how the pros treat an injured hiker.

* Winter camping tips.


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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The Backpacker Tough Guy (and Gal) Challenge

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
Want to win a guided climb up Mt. Rainier (airfare included!) with International Mountain Guides, including an array of Outdoor Research apparel? All you have to do is prove you're the toughest backpacker out there.

All you have to do to show you're the toughest guy or gal is create a video (no more than five minutes long) to prove it.

Backpacker Magazine has provided some intentionally vague guidelines:

* the toughest backpackers should be able to do things like start a fire with one match

* ascend thousands of feet of trail and mountainside in a day

* treat common first aid mishaps

* find your way out of trouble with a map and compass.

Of course, we each bring something unique to the table too.

Create a video demonstrating your backcountry badassery and upload to YouTube. Send Backpacker Magazine the link by July 15th, 2011 (toughguys@backpacker.com), and the editors will choose one winner, two second place finishers, and five third place finishers.

For details and rules, please click here.

Good Luck!


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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Win a trip to Colorado’s Weminuche Wilderness

Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Enter the Backpacker Magazine EXTREMES SWEEPSTAKES for a chance to win an epic hike for you and a guest with Southwest Adventure Guides. You'll cross wildflower-filled meadows and peak-studded basins to reach one of the most remote spots in the Lower 48: Rock Creek Lake in Colorado's Weminuche Wilderness (featured in BACKPACKER's May Issue and Dec 2007).

Big-time bonus: Both the winner and guest will get expedition packs from Osprey loaded with sleeping bags and tents from Pine Needle Mountaineering. To enter, all you have to do is submit your email here!

Don't delay - deadline to enter is June 30th.


Jeff
HikingintheSmokys.com

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