How to go backpacking (and why it's worth the effort)
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Backpacking is hard work, but the exertion pays off in spectacular scenery, great exercise and a heightened sense of wellbeing. Find out how to get started from an Appalachian Mountain Club guide.
(CNN) — Each summer, Emily Davenport spends days at a time hauling heavy loads through the White Mountains of New Hampshire. She sleeps on the ground. She returns to civilization pocked with bug bites and scrapes. An expert backpacker, Davenport is living the dream. Davenport, 31, works as a guide for the Appalachian Mountain Club, the oldest outdoor group in the United States. For seven years, she's led hikers on multiday treks through White Mountain National Forest, which includes a famed section of the 2,190-mile (3,524-kilometer) Appalachian Trail, the world's longest hiking-only footpath.
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