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

She got a job, found a partner, started running, and booked backpacking trips.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

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

Montgomery, in a tale also recounted in Santa Barbara Independent, told Hey he was on a two-week solo backpacking trip when he lost his pack and then his sense of where he was.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

“I was in Cusco, and I’d been backpacking for weeks.”

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden