The Ozark Trail: A Guide to Hiking Missouri’s Mountains

Whether it’s finding great products or discovering helpful advice, we’ll help you get it right (the first time). We spoke via email with Georgia Newsome, owner and operator of Coastal Bliss Adventures, who has worked as a backpacking, camping, and canoeing guide for the past 15 years. I also liked how my head wasn’t directly beside the door, which often occurs for an end-door tent. If something crawled through the zipper door it wouldn’t immediately be inches from my face but instead would have to work its way a few more feet to my head.

Summer campers, however, will probably be happier in a 40° F model. If you find that your sleeping bag doesn’t seem to be living up to its temperature rating, the issue is most likely your sleeping pad. Check out our Best Sleeping Pad review for more info about why your overnight warmth can be dependent on how well you’re insulated from the ground. Although synthetic fibers are cheaper to produce than down, they have not yet been able to achieve the same warmth for an equal weight of material. Synthetic sleeping bags, however, do have one performance advantage, a greater ability to insulate when wet. If down feathers get wet, they clump together and lose nearly all of their loft and insulative power.

ozark trail backpack

As we paddled by, they told us we wouldn’t be able to continue without them clearing the way for us. ISLE has referred to its Pro series of boards as “inflatable hardboards.” GearJunkie tested the ISLE Switch before this tech was integrated. But when ISLE released the Switch Pro, we decided it was worth a revisit.

Funds, however, were non existent and my CFO (i.e. my wife) wouldn’t increase my discretionary fund. Two center-line bunkers in the fairway split the hole between the low left side and the high right side. Staying left gives you a shorter distance to the hole, but the right side of the fairway gives you an elevated look to the green without having to carry the greenside bunkers on your approach.

To me, worrying about the temperature of the drinks I have on my boat is the absolute last thing I want to be thinking about when I am heading out on the water. While this ozark trail canopy pack won’t work for everyone, it’s a practical size for day trips, light travelers, and kids. That’s perfect if you’re trying to avoid carrying the board at any point.