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Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 5

Author : Mike Forgrave
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ISBN 13 : 9781514738948
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 5 written by Mike Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at Copper Country Explorer we tell the legend of a forsaken empire that once reigned over the scenic shores of the Keweenaw Peninsula, an empire ruled by copper. In no other place in the world did it occur in such purity and abundance. Its discovery led to one of the great colonizations of the modern age, transforming the remote and rugged wilderness of the Keweenaw into an industrial metropolis of over 100,000 people. It was not to last however. After over a century of rule, the empire would draw its last breaths. The mines closed, the people left, and the industrial metropolis returned to the wilderness from which it had come. In its place would be only ruins, the crumbling remnants of a lost civilization we know today as the Copper Country. It is within the shadows of the lost empire that this field guide wanders, exploring the ruins and remnants of a land lost in time. While the empire may have fallen, its legacy endures - crumbling ruins buried in the rugged wilderness, soaring stacks rising high above sprawling forest, and grand sandstone buildings lining quaint village streets. It is this field guide's mission to document these glimpses into history, and share the stories they tell. Featured in this volume... The great Copper Empire extended far past the boundaries of Houghton and Keweenaw Counties, its industrial reach extending far into the interior of neighboring Ontonagon County as well. There several mines took shape along the rugged hills found within the county's center, remote and isolated sites residing far from hustle and bustle of the rest of the empire. These mines included far more failures then successes, resulting in a landscape sprinkled primarily with nothing but abandoned shafts and empty adits. Yet there were some successes, mines such as the Victoria, the Mass, the Lake and the Minesota; whose copper riches fueled the erection of sprawling modern surface plants adorned with towering rock houses and massive hoisting plants. Today those mines are long gone, but the remains of their impressive surface plants can still be found deep in Ontonagon's rugged interior.

Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 8

Author : Michael Forgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533034335
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 8 written by Michael Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Copper Empire flourished north of the Portage Valley the lands to the south continued to remain wild and remote, largely untouched by the hand of man. That would all change in 1897 with the discovery of one of the region's most productive lodes - the Baltic. Atop its copper-rich bounty would rise the soaring rock houses and sprawling surface plants of a trio of mine: the Baltic, the Trimountain, and the Champion. By 1923 all three would fall under the control of an industrial conglomerate of a size and scope rivaling even the great C&H itself - the Copper Range Company. The Copper Range Company had begun its life as a mere common carrier railroad joining Houghton with the major railroads to the south. Within three short decades, however, the company had managed to expand its reach into every major industry of the region. In short order it had taken control of virtually every mine, town, mill and railroad to be found within the wide borders of the southern range. The Copper Range had become an empire in its own right, controlling the fate of the southern range for the next half century.

Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 6

Author : Mike Forgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781514738962
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 6 written by Mike Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at Copper Country Explorer we tell the legend of a forsaken empire that once reigned over the scenic shores of the Keweenaw Peninsula, an empire ruled by copper. In no other place in the world did it occur in such purity and abundance. Its discovery led to one of the great colonizations of the modern age, transforming the remote and rugged wilderness of the Keweenaw into an industrial metropolis of over 100,000 people. It was not to last however. After over a century of rule, the empire would draw its last breaths. The mines closed, the people left, and the industrial metropolis returned to the wilderness from which it had come. In its place would be only ruins, the crumbling remnants of a lost civilization we know today as the Copper Country. It is within the shadows of the lost empire that this field guide wanders, exploring the ruins and remnants of a land lost in time. While the empire may have fallen, its legacy endures - crumbling ruins buried in the rugged wilderness, soaring stacks rising high above sprawling forest, and grand sandstone buildings lining quaint village streets. It is this field guide's mission to document these glimpses into history, and share the stories they tell. Featured in this volume... The great Copper Empire was complemented by an equally impressive network of rail, roads of iron that connected shaft to shaft, mine to mill, and mill to shore. Joining these mine railroads was even more rail, a trio of common carriers along with a street railway transporting people and freight to and from communities all across the peninsula. In the end the Copper Country would boast over a dozen railroads and several hundred miles of track, creating one of the densest and most prominent rail networks in the nation. A century later finds those mines closed and the railroads that supported them abandoned. Yet a great deal of the old rail network remains, hidden alongside the road and deep within the forest, scattered remnants of a great empire that once was.

Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 4

Author : Michael Forgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781514738740
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 4 written by Michael Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at Copper Country Explorer we tell the legend of a forsaken empire that once reigned over the scenic shores of the Keweenaw Peninsula, an empire ruled by copper. In no other place in the world did it occur in such purity and abundance. Its discovery led to one of the great colonizations of the modern age, transforming the remote and rugged wilderness of the Keweenaw into an industrial metropolis of over 100,000 people. It was not to last however. After over a century of rule, the empire would draw its last breaths. The mines closed, the people left, and the industrial metropolis returned to the wilderness from which it had come. In its place would be only ruins, the crumbling remnants of a lost civilization we know today as the Copper Country. It is within the shadows of the lost empire that this field guide wanders, exploring the ruins and remnants of a land lost in time. While the empire may have fallen, its legacy endures - crumbling ruins buried in the rugged wilderness, soaring stacks rising high above sprawling forest, and grand sandstone buildings lining quaint village streets. It is this field guide's mission to document these glimpses into history, and share the stories they tell. Featured in this volume...In the beginning it was its innate natural wonder that first attracted people to Torch Lake, the region's abundance of virgin timber attracting French-Canadian lumberjacks to the region. It would be the deep and abundant waters of the lake itself, however, that would bring the most change to the region. Turns out those waters could not only feed the thirsty stamp mills of the Copper Empire, but their depths could accommodate the thousands of tons of waste tailings those mills produced. It was a match made in industrial heaven.In the end the lake's western shore would become lined by more then a dozen industrial sites along with a collection of villages and worker communities to support those sites. Then there was the lake itself, inundated with over 200 million tons of mine tailings and shrunk in size by nearly 20%. While the Copper Empire may be gone, its legacy is still visible along the shore and in the waters of a lake once only disturbed by the light of fishing torches.

Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 2

Author : Mike Forgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781500941642
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 2 written by Mike Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at Copper Country Explorer we tell the legend of a forsaken empire that once reigned over the scenic shores of the Keweenaw Peninsula, an empire ruled by copper. In no other place in the world did it occur in such purity and abundance. Its discovery led to one of the great colonizations of the modern age, transforming the remote and rugged wilderness of the Keweenaw into an industrial metropolis of over 100,000 people. It was not to last however. After over a century of rule, the empire would draw its last breaths. The mines closed, the people left, and the industrial metropolis returned to the wilderness from which it had come. In its place would be only ruins, the crumbling remnants of a lost civilization we know today as the Copper Country. It is within the shadows of the lost empire that this field guide wanders, exploring the ruins and remnants of a land lost in time. While the empire may have fallen, its legacy endures - crumbling ruins buried in the rugged wilderness, soaring stacks rising high above sprawling forest, and grand sandstone buildings lining quaint village streets. It is this field guide's mission to document these glimpses into history, and share the stories they tell. Featured in this volume...For a quarter century the Isle Royale Mine was the king of the mountain, sitting high atop the hill overlooking Houghton and the Portage valley. Its line of rock houses and soaring piles of poor rock stood as monuments to a prosperous and industrious time. Yet as was always the case across the copper empire, success was fleeting and before long the great Isle Royale succumbed to the march of progress - its monuments dismantled or hauled away as road fill. While its shaft houses and rock piles may be no more, the old mine managed to leave its mark on the landscape above Houghton - in the scattered ruins found scattered alongside the road.

Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 3

Author : Michael Forgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781500945152
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 3 written by Michael Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at Copper Country Explorer we tell the legend of a forsaken empire that once reigned over the scenic shores of the Keweenaw Peninsula, an empire ruled by copper. In no other place in the world did it occur in such purity and abundance. Its discovery led to one of the great colonizations of the modern age, transforming the remote and rugged wilderness of the Keweenaw into an industrial metropolis of over 100,000 people. It was not to last however. After over a century of rule, the empire would draw its last breaths. The mines closed, the people left, and the industrial metropolis returned to the wilderness from which it had come. In its place would be only ruins, the crumbling remnants of a lost civilization we know today as the Copper Country. It is within the shadows of the lost empire that this field guide wanders, exploring the ruins and remnants of a land lost in time. While the empire may have fallen, its legacy endures - crumbling ruins buried in the rugged wilderness, soaring stacks rising high above sprawling forest, and grand sandstone buildings lining quaint village streets. It is this field guide's mission to document these glimpses into history, and share the stories they tell. Featured in this volume...The Quincy Smelting Works is the last of the last, a lone remnant of a vast industrial landscape that once lined the Portage Waterway for miles. Like her shoreline brethren, the Quincy complex existed solely to serve its copper masters, and when the copper empire died she died along with it. As time marched forward the sprawling industrial ruins around her were sacrificed to the region's new master - tourism. The shoreline on which smelters, foundries, warehouses, and coal docks once stood were transformed to parks, boardwalks, and rows of townhouses. But through it all the Quincy smelter remained. Though battered and bruised and showing her age, the old gal continues to remind us all of the copper country's rich industrial heritage that still can be found along its shores.

Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 1

Author : Mike Forgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781500921088
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 1 written by Mike Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at Copper Country Explorer we tell the legend of a forsaken empire that once reigned over the scenic shores of the Keweenaw Peninsula, an empire ruled by copper. In no other place in the world did it occur in such purity and abundance. Its discovery led to one of the great colonizations of the modern age, transforming the remote and rugged wilderness of the Keweenaw into an industrial metropolis of over 100,000 people. It was not to last however. After over a century of rule, the empire would draw its last breaths. The mines closed, the people left, and the industrial metropolis returned to the wilderness from which it had come. In its place would be only ruins, the crumbling remnants of a lost civilization we know today as the Copper Country. It is within the shadows of the lost empire that this field guide wanders, exploring the ruins and remnants of a land lost in time. While the empire may have fallen, its legacy endures - crumbling ruins buried in the rugged wilderness, soaring stacks rising high above sprawling forest, and grand sandstone buildings lining quaint village streets. It is this field guide's mission to document these glimpses into history, and share the stories they tell. Featured in this volume...Originally known as Red Jacket, the town of Calumet first formed to the north of the great C&H mine around 1864. As the mine prospered, the town of Red Jacket expanded in response. By 1900 the small town had managed to grow to nearly 5,000 residents, which when combined with the surrounding suburbs created a sprawling metropolis of nearly 30,000 people. Along the village's brick-paved streets were all the trappings of a modern metropolis: multi-floor department stores featuring the latest in European fashion, an opulent 1200 seat opera house boasting nationally touring stage plays and acts, and an elegantly manicured city park designed by one of the country's most renowned landscape architects.However, by the 1960s the great Copper Empire had fallen from greatness, the great C&H was no more, and the village's fortunes were no more . Within a decade the village's population shrunk to near obscurity and most of its businesses shut their doors. A city built for tens of thousands of people was now home to just under a thousand. As a result hundreds of homes were left vacant and dark, dozens of massive commercial blocks along the village's wide streets were abandoned , and the bells in the village's soaring churches were forever silenced.

Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 9

Author : Michael Forgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533052087
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 9 written by Michael Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While known for decades the beautiful sandstone cliffs along the Keweenaw's south-east shore were relatively ignored until the 1870s when a man by the name of George Craig - a stone cutter and son of an English quarrier - saw their promise as a source of high quality building stone and opened a quarry of his own. A decade later a businessmen by the name of Henry Jacobs opened a second quarry nearby, establishing the town of Jacobsville in the process. The Jacob's quarry was an incredible success and by the end of the century a half dozen quarries were in operation in the area - creating the Copper Country's third largest industry in the process. The stone mined in these quarries would be used throughout the midwest, in buildings as far away as New York and Chicago. Most of it, however, would stay local and end up in some of the Copper Country's most impressive and iconic structures. These great buildings include soaring cathedrals, opulent homes, grand public buildings, and stately commercial blocks - most of which continue to grace the Keweenaw's historic cities and villages still today.

Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 7

Author : Michael Forgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533017345
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Copper Country Explorer Field Guide No. 7 written by Michael Forgrave and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877 the Laurium Mining Company opened up shop upon a large swath of land just to the east of the great C&H Mine and the town of Red Jacket. The mine quickly discovered that there was no copper to be had within its holdings, but found the land itself to be extremely valuable as real estate. With the village of Red Jacket bursting at its seams, there was a high demand for land on which to build the homes and businesses the growing community desperately needed. The defunct mine seized the opportunity and platted up its lands into the village of Calumet - later to be renamed Laurium.While Laurium would develop its own commercial district, the adolescent village grew primarily as a residential suburb of Red Jacket. Cheap prices, large lots, and buffered space from the hustle and bustle of the mines attracted a great deal of middle to upper class citizens. Mine managers, captains, investors, and businessmen bought up large plots of land within the village and erected some of the largest and most opulent homes in the entire region. Such high class trappings gave Laurium a somewhat exaggerated reputation as the home to the Keweenaw's most rich and famous - a Victorian-age Beverly Hills of the Copper Country.

True Tales

Author : Mikel B. Classen
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
ISBN 13 : 1615996354
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book True Tales written by Mikel B. Classen and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Were Pioneer Days Really Like in the U.P.? The combination of mining, maritime and lumbering history created a culture in the U.P. that is unique to the Midwest. Discover true stories of the rough and dangerous times of the Upper Peninsula frontier that are as enjoyable as they are educational. You'll find no conventional romantic or whitewashed history here. Instead, you will be astonished by the true hardships and facets of trying to settle a frontier sandwiched among the three Great Lakes. These pages are populated by Native Americans and the European immigrants, looking for their personal promised land-whether to raise families, avoid the law, start a new life or just get rich... no matter what it took. Mineral hunters, outlaws, men of honor creating civilization out of wilderness and the women of strength that accompanied them, the Upper Peninsula called to all. Among the eye-opening stories, you'll find True Tales includes: • Dan Seavey, the infamous pirate based out of Escanaba • Angelique Mott, who was marooned with her husband on Isle Royale for 9 months with just a handful of provisions and no weapons or tools • Vigilantes who broke up the notorious sex trafficking rings - protected by stockades, gunmen, and feral dogs - in Seney, Sac Bay, Ewen, Trout Creek, Ontonagon and Bruce Crossing • Klaus L. Hamringa, the lightkeeper hero who received a commendation of valor for saving the crews of the Monarch and Kiowa shipwrecks • The strange story of stagecoach robber Reimund (Black Bart) Holzhey • The whimsical tale of how Christmas, Michigan got its moniker • The backstories of famous pioneers, such as Peter White, George Shiras III, Governor Chase Osborn and many others This book is a gold mine of vacation possibilities, providing dozens of fascinating little-known facts about many of the innumerable attractions found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. With the aid of a near countless parade of carefully selected historical images, Mikel paints a picture the reader will not ever forget. -- Michael Carrier, author of Murder on Sugar Island (Jack Handler mysteries) Learn more at www.MikelBClassen.com From Modern History Press

The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Third Edition

Author : T. Scott Bryan
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457188589
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Third Edition written by T. Scott Bryan and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area. Now in its third edition, this is still the only book that includes all aspects of the park. Much more than just a guidebook, it covers the park's cultural history, botany and zoology, hiking and biking opportunities, and more. Information is provided for all of Death Valley's visitors, from first-time travelers just learning about the area to those who are returning for in-depth explorations. The book includes updated point-to-point logs for every road within and around the park, as well as more accurate maps than those in any other publication. With extensive input from National Park Service resource management, law enforcement, and interpretive personnel, as well as a thorough bibliography for suggested reading, The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, Third Edition is the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive guide available for this national treasure.

My New Roots

Author : Sarah Britton
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0804185395
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book My New Roots written by Sarah Britton and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, Sarah Britton, called the “queen bee of the health blogs” by Bon Appétit, reveals 100 gorgeous, all-new plant-based recipes in her debut cookbook, inspired by her wildly popular blog. Every month, half a million readers—vegetarians, vegans, paleo followers, and gluten-free gourmets alike—flock to Sarah’s adaptable and accessible recipes that make powerfully healthy ingredients simply irresistible. My New Roots is the ultimate guide to revitalizing one’s health and palate, one delicious recipe at a time: no fad diets or gimmicks here. Whether readers are newcomers to natural foods or are already devotees, they will discover how easy it is to eat healthfully and happily when whole foods and plants are at the center of every plate.

Looking for Longleaf

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442997184
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Longleaf written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mining Royalties

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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821365037
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Mining Royalties written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a wealth of information and analysis relating to mineral royalties. Primary information includes royalty legislation from over forty nations. Analysis is comprehensive and addresses issues of importance to diverse stakeholders including government policymakers, tax administrators, society, local communities and mining companies. Extensive footnotes and citations provide a valuable resource for researchers.

Lunar Sourcebook

Author : Grant Heiken
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521334440
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Lunar Sourcebook written by Grant Heiken and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-04-26 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only work to date to collect data gathered during the American and Soviet missions in an accessible and complete reference of current scientific and technical information about the Moon.

Springs of Texas

Author : Gunnar M. Brune
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585441969
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Springs of Texas written by Gunnar M. Brune and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.

Backpacker

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.