Word: backpacker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Should your outdoor adventure require watercraft, Mad River Canoe of Waitsfield, Vermont, manufactures a series of boats with aluminum-tubing frames and polyvinyl chloride skins that actually fold up into a backpack. Bon voyage, portage...
...Encounter. Look them in the eye? No, that was mountain lions. Bears just hate it when you stare at them, so keep your gaze fixed dreamily on the scenery. Play dead? Let's see, that works for grizzlies but not for black bears. So do you take off the backpack, get out the wildlife guidebook, do a quick taxonomic determination and then play dead...
...white male" who made the call, and is also looking at videotape taken in the park that night to see if Jewell can be spotted placing the bomb. While no evidence of Jewell's involvement has surfaced, there is some circumstantial evidence available. Jewell owned an olive drab backpack similar to the one seen containing the three pipe bombs, and apparently fits the FBI profile of the bomber. Says TIME's Elaine Shannon: "They don't have a whole lot of evidence on him yet, but it may come pretty quickly. Still, they're not breaking out the champagne...
Night after night, Nigerian gangsters trolled the bars and fleshpots of Naples for reckless young Yanks. The bait: a weekend excursion to Turkey, all expenses paid, and a fat wad of walking-around cash. The job: carrying a backpack stuffed with heroin on the return flight from Istanbul to Rome...
...read endlessly at the library--Montana newspapers (the librarian did not subscribe to out-of-state papers), books in Spanish and German (usually borrowed from other libraries), issues of Scientific American and Omni. Once a month or so, he would visit the grocery store and load staples into his backpack: Spam and canned tuna and flour. He was strange, the townspeople said, but no stranger than others who had come to hide at the end of the world...