Bryan DeLay was 12 when he took his first backpacking trip, with his Scout Troop, in the mountains of Tennessee; he was smitten. But it wasn’t until he was 35 and realizing there had to be more to life than developing shopping centers that he got into backpacking big time. Over the next 30 some years the Knoxville resident estimates he’s spent 75 to 100 nights a year in a tent, bringing his number of nights on the trail to around 1,600, and the number of states he’s backpacked in to 25. Despi...