Hey everyone! I hope you cash take some time to answer a question for me: If you could go back and tell yourself a few helpful hints, tips, or advice about backpacking on the dash you first started, what would they be?

I'm curious what you would consider the most important of most overlooked advice for new backpackers.

I'm asking because I'd like to potentially use some of your answers to compile into some content to help new hikers.

Please feel free to blow up this thread with gear advice, what to avoid, what to buy, mistakes to avoid. Whatever it is you feel are the most useful things for a beginner backpacker to know which might often go overlooked.

Hope everyone is doing great out there and congrats to all of the 2016 class (even those who may not have made it as far as they'd hoped).

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