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Avoiding Ticks When Camping
Avoiding Blisters When Hiking
Packing a Backpack
Staying Warm in a Sleeping Bag
Purifying Water When Camping
How to Wear a Backpack
Picking a Backpack
Buying Hiking Boots
Breaking In Hiking Boots
Buying Sleeping Bags
Packing for Day Hikes
Food for Backpacking Trips
How to Pitch a Tent
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Summary: When wearing a backpack, take a wide stance, bend the knees and keep the back straight. Wear a backpack properly comfortably and avoid injuries with tips from a backpacking guide in this free video on camping and hiking.
Richard Fields has been actively backpacking for more than 40 years. He has led both inexperienced and experienced backpackers into wilderness locations around the world. Fields...read more
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"Hi, I'm Richard Fields. In this clip, we're going to talk about how to wear a backpack. First of all, is getting it on, of course. A lot of times they're fairly heavy, and you don't want to injure yourself in the process, so take a wide stance. Bend your knees a little bit, keep your back straight. Lift it up onto one shoulder, then shoot your arm through the other shoulder strap. At this point, what you want to do, is shrug your shoulders, so that you can get your waist belt hooked up, and then tighten it up, to where most of the weight is on your hips. At that point, you can go ahead and cinch down the shoulder straps, to pull it to where you're just the slightest bit of load, on your shoulders. Then, you take these side cinch straps here, they pull the load into you, to get it closer to your center of gravity, until it feels comfortable, and close to you, where you can move around, and not feel like you've got an awkward load on you. It's a good idea to connect this breast strap across here. It keeps the shoulder pads from creeping out, and really helps support the load quite a bit, and keep it centered on you. Once you've done that, you also want to tighten up these cinch straps on your waist belt, so that the waist belt will fit you appropriately, and help carry the load, and you want to have, when you're done, most of the load on your hips with your shoulders picking up just a little bit of the load, and keeping the load close to you. You should have freedom of movement, and be able to walk comfortably, and not have to lean too far into the pack, and that's how you wear a backpack."
eHow Article: How to Wear a Backpack
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