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Advanced Backpacking Bootcamps

Do you want to expand your skills and gain confidence on trail? This course is designed for new backpackers, backpackers that have not been out on trail recently, and those that want to enhance their skills and apply the knowledge they already possess. Our advanced bootcamps combine hiking and camping in a back-country setting. Our primary goal is to help reinforce the knowledge base that backpackers already have so that they can safely plan and execute a multi-day hike. We share information such as trip planning, route/location selection, water filtration methods, basic first aid, fire starting techniques, as well as GPS, compass use, and map reading.

Manistee River Trail, 
Manistee County, Michigan
2018

Established in 1938 the Manistee National Forest is located in northwest region of lower Michigan. Formerly a logging area, the Manistee forest is covered in deep, thick forests edged with sand bluffs that overlook the river on the east side. Some of the most beautiful campsites you'll see in the Midwest can be found here. 2 trails skirt the Manistee River, the MRT and part of the NCT.

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camping and hiking
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Bell Mountain, Mark Twain Wilderness-Missouri
2019
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
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camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
Shawnee National Forest,
Southern Illinois
2020
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
Forrest
Forrest
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
camping and hiking
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Forrest
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camping and hiking
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Forrest
Forrest
camping and hiking
Morgan Monroe State Forest-
Martinsville, Indiana
2021
Morgan Monroe State Forest Sign. Light snowfall.
Group photo of 9 backpackers with a forested backdrop.
True North Expeditions guide giving instruction in the dark. Clients wearing headlamps.
True North Expeditions guide giving instruction in the dark. Clients wearing headlamps.
Backpackers hiking in the night with headlamps.
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