 > The word 'backcountry' is usually referring to outdoors America and Canada used in this context though, practically universally on the internet. The trouble is, that, due to the internet providing a means of spreading of language, 'backcountry' is now widely understood to mean wilderness, or outdoors. So 'backcountry basics' could have meant anywhere. A simple sentence saying 'Useful links for North American backcountry destinations and info' would have sufficed. I'm sure you could manage to type just that one sentence between the many, many others you manage to type in a day...
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 Or even 'Backcountry USA', as I normally put in things on here. But I do then however always feel that to be like writing door door, or foot foot though. It is repeating what it is twice, which seems a tad unnecessry I felt. So just for once I left out the USA bit this time around here.  I didn't do it to confuse, nor expect anyone would be that easily confused either, really. A simple click onto the link shows it to be full of American outdoors locational links anyway after all.
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cp, while I agree that the dictionary definition of 'backcountry' states no particular region of the Eath as a whole, I still will have to stand by my own findings as stated before; that the common most populaly associated use of the word 'backcountry' upon the internet, within reference to outdoors subjects, is with reference definitely to North America and the North Woods areas of Canada primarily, essentially speaking. A simple search in a few internet engines confirms to me my previously deeply held conviction upon this fact, as still to be very much true today.I think with you mentioning the dictionary definition, that we are talking about two different things here quite possibly. The popular common internet use of the word denotes first of all things of outdoors America. Again we will just have to agree to differ on this subject too maybe.
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Umm! Just a last little comparative thought that just now struck me earlier on about this all. Talking of popularly held common perceptions of this type, think similarly of the Swedish calling almost universally, by popular definition, their own wilderness outdoors lands as 'the nature', just as the Americans seem to like to call theirs 'the backcountry'. No, so ok that neither is exactly 100% correct dictionary definitions wise, perhaps. But I don't think we can then go calling either a wrong perception really either. For my mind, having read widely American outdoors books and magazines, and talked to plenty of Americans myself about it, the word backcountry in outdoors reference conjures up first still into my mind, images of outdoors wild America, before anything else. From the land where backpacking essentially really first began.
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I will however, as requested by cp earlier on, place the USA into the title for such again; once more, as I usually did do before today, when specifically referencing that whole America/Canadian North Woods area as backcountry. 
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> For my mind, having read widely American outdoors books and magazines, and talked to plenty of Americans myself about it, the word backcountry in outdoors reference conjures up first still into my mind, images of outdoors wild America, before anything else That may be why I don't immediately link 'backcountry' with N America; I haven't read that much about N America. But I have read some, so I know what they mean when they say backcountry (i.e. the outdoors), and use the term more generically.
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Thru Hiker.comAnother very good American site aimed more at long distance trail walkers and too the lightweight brigade! This link goes straight to the best links list there to the many outdoors articles. Oh, Happy Days! As the old hymn goes!
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Gorp.com Hiking Tips.Basics of tips for hikers in America covering everything from kit selection to trails at Gorp.com. This link though takes you direct to the good little articles on everything from hiking basic skills to dealing with blisters outdoors.
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