Which Bike Would You Recommend

If your going to be carry camping gear and your going to riding dirt paths and trails you would better off with a Cyclocross bike not a hybrid. Most Cyclocross bikes will have eyelets front and rear for fenders and a second set of eyelets on the rear for panniers, some will only have one set on the rear and none on the front. Most Cyclocross bikes are not designed for an additional set of panniers on the front, but some may be. You have to decide how much gear your going to carry to find out whether or not you need to carry additional panniers on the front. If you can get away with carrying about 30 pounds of gear you should only need the rear panniers, then get a handle bar bag for small essentials you need at your fingertips.

Also Cyclocross bikes are generally built with more stout frames and fatter tires and are more designed for off road use then a hybrid is. A hybrid is basically a road bike with flat handle bars (though cyclocross bikes can come with either flat or road style bars) and just slightly wider tires then a road bike to better handle potholes, jumping curbs etc, their more adapt at recreational and or commuting on pavement then taking from the road onto paths and back to roads again.

Personally I see no need for a hybrid to even be on the market...oops, sorry, I may have created a firestorm of controversy. But I've been riding road bikes for 40 years on city streets, jumping curbs, bunny hopping over potholes and rail road tracks etc, and never wished for a more of a hybrid type of bike; but I understand there are some people that may feel safer on a hybrid.

Also make sure you get a stoutly built pannier rack, because due to the off road nature of bouncing more violently then on a road, the bouncing puts undue stress on the racks that are loaded with weight, and cheap racks have been known to break. You can tell how good a rack is going to be by the pounds of carrying weight it can handle. If it can handle 50 to 60 pounds and your going to be carrying 30 then it's a safe bet that the higher weight holding rack will work better. Topeak Explorer will handle 55 pound loads and is relatively cheap at around $25 on Amazon.