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"Store your gear in a big plastic box," writes Matt Colón in his "Get Out Now!" feature (also published this week).

His favorite box: a 110-liter Rubbermaid storage bin. The presumption is that organization and tidiness of your gear store will decrease the time required to plan a backcountry trek, improving the chances that you'll actually take one.

I started out with one of these boxes, full of all the gear a guy could ever want.

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