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The Gear That Was Ubiquitous with 2026 Thru-Hikers
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (616+ words) Not that every trend exists across every trail, of course. Trail culture—and the gear that contributes to it—varies from place to place. For example, “Ultralight felt very ‘in’ out west in a way that it didn’t out east,…...