
Seminar
Cleaning, Maintaining, and Storing Your Backpacking Gear in the Off-season - Mountaineers Tacoma Program Center
Learn how to care for your backpacking gear and increase its longevity. This will be an in-person seminar with no recording or Zoom options available.
- Mon, Nov 6, 2023
- Tacoma Hiking & Backpacking Committee
- Backpacking
- Adults
- Easy
- $10.00 $10.00
- 13 (22 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Tacoma Program Center 6:30-8pm
In this seminar we will present some of the most common ways to clean, maintain, and store your backpacking gear for the offseason including:
- Sleeping bags/quilts
- Sleeping pads
- Tents/shelters
- Backpacks
- Boots/shoes
- Clothing/rain gear
- Backpacking stoves
- Trekking poles
- Bladders and water bags
- Water filters
- Food storage
At the end of the seminar there will be an option to consolidate your partially used backpacking stove fuel canisters and punch a hole in your empties so you can take them home for recycling.
Required Equipment
No equipment is required but you may want to bring a notebook and something to write with for notetaking.