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Not only is the price of backpacking gear outrageously high, but it’s difficult to find outdoor gear that exactly meets our specifications. Paying high prices for backpacking equipment, especially when it only partially satisfies our requirements, is problematic, to say the least. One alternative is to make your own – home made outdoor gear.
Homemade backpacking and hiking gear. This page is dedicated to those who have done just that and who want to share their process for doing so with other folks.
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