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Category: Gear

Everest Base Camp: Packing List

Posted on September 13, 2014November 4, 2025 by Amy

Preparing for a multiday, high altitude trek can be tricky if you don’t have a reference on what is needed. Typically, I try to do my research well in advance for my adventures, but considering I signed up for this trek on a whim and left 2 days later, there wasn’t much time for that….

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Packing List

Posted on January 22, 2014April 23, 2014 by Amy

I have been fortunate to take some pretty amazing trips in the past….Africa, Europe, etc. in addition to weekend getaways.  I would have never considered myself a light packer, no matter the length of the trip.  I always over packed to ensure I had enough options and always had plenty of back up choices.  Last…

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain
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