BACKPACKING

I grew up camping from a very young age, but I’d never been backpacking until my senior year of high school. My dad had always wanted to go and he decided that the whole family was going to spend spring break giving it a try. We had a mixture of gear from Aldi, Walmart, and various rental sources but we successfully did 4 days on the Appalachian Trail. As painful as some of that trip was, it still got me hooked!