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Never thought so before, out in back country, but I do now.

"There are just so many more people in the back country these days."

"But what are you going to carry into the back country?"

It was easy to believe in back country like this that you might never find your way out.

I hunted in the back country, coming down from the north.

Most of the movie was shot in Alaska and its back country.

My final night is spent in another big patch of back country.

And this is little more than a back country road."

The only access was via a small, back country road that led North from town.

"We're pretty proud of the fact that we have more natural back country than any other state in the lower 48," he said.

He is on an inspection tour of the back country.

Camping is allowed in the back country of the forest.

There are few people around when you ski in the back country, and it is important to be prepared for anything.

At mile 3 turn left onto the back country trails.

Their 5-year-old daughter has no playmates in the back country and few at school.

He's married, spends a lot of time riding around the back country.

He had not been sure he would ever get into back country like this again.

I used to live around here, wandering the back country."

There are 26 maintained runs and 5 back country trails.

Prices in the back country, where open land still exists, are especially vulnerable to high costs.

The girl lived in the back country and didn't get many chances of going into town.

But we have a long history of trying to ski the back country and also offering lift service.

There was a single gate at the center of the north perimeter, reached by a back country road.

Back Country was his final book, published in 1981.

Those kind of duties limit the work rangers can do in the back country.

Bent then went into hiding in the backblocks of Taranaki.

However, they are very useful for major purchases like airline tickets (though smaller offices in the backblocks may not accept them).

Otheriwse the backblocks with nothing but mosquitoes and the Konkan.

New music video from The BackBlocks.

A district nurse was appointed to serve the backblocks of the Uruti Valley in 1909.

I did an evening ride along some backblocks roads, all gravel, and the next day we all hired bikes and did a similar route.

Ten years of work in the backblocks of Victoria were accompanied by journalistic work refuting anti-Catholic propaganda.

His reputation has been badly affected by Alfred Deakin's description of him as "a crude, sleek, suspicious, blundering, short-sighted, backblocks politician".

They all trained together and were made Olympians by the end of the 1960s training off the famed Waitarua run through the challenging backblocks of Auckland.

Similar slang or colloquial words are "the sticks", '"the backblocks"' in Australia & New Zealand, '"bundu"' in South Africa, and "out in the tules" in California.

The chorus of a famous Australian shearer's song, The Backblocks' Shearer (also known as Widgegoeera Joe), written by W. Tully at Nimidgee, NSW (c.1900), refers to a gaffer:

The 'backblocks' humour of Australian cartoonists of the Smith's Weekly school such as Alex Gurney, Percy Leason, Stan Cross and Eric Jolliffe often included slab huts as a backdrop to their gags.