camping advice

I like this guy's commonsense style. The advice he gives isn't particularly deep, but it all makes sense, and it corresponds to my own experience. None of it is too abstruse; he's talking right at my level. While I consider myself to be, at least in a limited way, a fairly experienced hiker/camper at this point, the fact is that I haven't really challenged myself with very many mountain paths, and I suspect that that's going to be the next step in my hiking journey. There's the Baekdu Daegan trail here in Korea—450 tough kilometers, from what I hear, and in Europe, there's the fabled Grande Randonnée 5 (or GR5), which goes from water to water—from Hoek van Holland to Nice, France. Sometime before I die, I'd like to try those trails, along with through-hiking both the Pacific Crest trail and the American Discovery Trail. If I had a death wish, I'd try hiking through the Australian Outback's "red centre," but I'm not a big lover of deserts, and the Outback is huge. Anyway, enjoy the following Dan Becker video. I've slapped it up here because he mentions the Grayl, a water-purification system that I have. Becker has a more recent, lighter version.