This course is an introduction to backpacking, a term used to describe how people travel by foot carrying what they need. Our course is designed around the following objective: a 2-night/3-day backpacking trip along New Hampshire's Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail. With this planning objective in mind, our course will give you all the tools (and the thinking behind the tools and processes) to plan other adventures as well. The Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway Trail Backpacking Trip will be offered as a supplemental non-credit course to practice your skills, but it is not required to pass this credit course. ***NOTE: This is a non-standard course which means that the deadlines to drop this course differ from most university courses. Please check STUDENT LINK to review these deadlines***