Want to know how backpacking began? What about how to properly pack a backpack? Indulge yourself in this creative presentation to find out!

1. BackpackingEmilie Jones

2. What is Backpacking?

3. How

4. When it began
✤ Official backpacking
began in 1920
✤ Lloyd F. Nelson invented
pack board

5. Pack Board
✤Gave structure to pack
✤Easier to carry for long
hikes
✤Distributed weight
evenly across
shoulders

6. National Scenic
Trail Act
✤ trails were routes for
commerce and migration
✤ access to scenic terrain
✤ Appalachian National
Scenic trail -first
✤ Wanted to establish
“national system of foot
trails.”

7. ✤ 1968
✤ President Lyndon
Johnson
✤ Made hiking more
accessible
Established

9. Evolution of Backpacking
Back Then Currently
Frames of Packs Wooden Aluminum Tubing
Pack Material Heavy Canvas Waterproof Nylon
Cookware Steel Titanium
Clothing Wool, Cotton Quick-dry synthetics
Stoves Petroleum/Wood Alcohol/Butane

11. How to pack the backpack:

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13. Work Cited
✤ http://www.americantrails.org/resources/feds/NatTrSysOverview.html
✤ http://camping.lovetoknow.com/History_of_Backpacking
✤ http://nomadsworld.com/articles/global/the-history-of-backpacking
✤ http://www.tripbase.com/blog/hippies-hashish-and-banana-pancakes-
the-history-of-backpacking/
✤ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJD8d00AxZg