backpacking

Example Sentences

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The Gatlinburg, Tenn., company offers special viewing tours and backpacking trips in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Several are backpacking sites and do not offer potable water.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025

Its parking situation was inconvenient, bordering on inaccessible, and the journey from curb to gate and vice versa was the airport version of backpacking the Appalachian Trail.

From Slate • Nov. 24, 2025

Late last year, she headed out on what was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, backpacking with mates in Laos, south-east Asia.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

He and a friend would be backpacking for a year or more—Europe first, then Asia, ending up in the Philippines.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart