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Ultralight backpacking lets you bag that fourteener with your pack on - it weighs less than two gallons of water! Descend by any route, because you didn't leave behind a heavy backpack. That's freedom.
Sling your lightweight backpack from one shoulder to let your back cool as you hike. Go sixteen miles without blisters, because your light load doesn't require hot, heavy boots. That's comfort.
Lightweight backpacking, fastpacking, ultralight backpacking - whatever you call it - it gives you more freedom and comfort. (Need more convincing? Read "The Case For Ultralight Backpacking.")
Ultralight Backpacking
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How To Become An Ultralight Backpacker
Ultralight Backpacking Secrets (And Wilderness Survival Tips)
Colorado Hiking is the story of my first long trip with lightweight gear. It rained or snowed for seven days, but even with a down sleeping bag and a tarp, I stayed dry, hiked 110 miles, and bagged a few peaks.
Hiking Adventures : Quick summaries and links to the tales of ultralight backpacking on glaciers, floating down rivers, sleeping with coyotes in sand dunes, and more.
Ultralight Backpacking Gear covers all the rest of the "stuff."
Light, Lighter, Lightest give you all the lightweight gear options.
Ultralight Backpacking Tips, Lists And Resources links to pages about books, dirtbagging, food for backpackers, and more. There's even a little about super ultralight backpacking here.
50 new pages on wilderness survival!
Survival Foods : The most readily available in emergencies.
Foot Care For Backpackers : Treating common problems.
A Toothache While Backpacking : What to do.
Wilderness Survival Hunting : It isn't about fancy weapons or trophy animals.
Wild Plants You Can Use : Rope, medicine, fire - what do you need?
Survivorman : A review of the program.
Moonlight Hiking : Why moonlight hiking? The trails are empty, there are eyes in the bushes...
New Backpacking Ideas : Ideas for products and techniques.
Michigan Outdoors - Three Hidden Places : Some places you haven't heard about.
Wilderness Travel Tips : Six wilderness travel tips.
Hiking Clothes - The Cheapest : Find cheap hiking clothes, and still backpack in style.
A Backpack With Wheels : A new backpacking invention inspires some ideas of my own.
Sleeping Bag Ratings : Temperature ratings are decided by the manufacturer, but there's a better way.
Lightweight Backpacking Gear Ideas : A few inventive ideas for lightweight backpacking gear.
Cheap Backpacks : A couple ways to buy them cheap or even make them cheap.
Medicinal Plants For Ultralight Backpacking : Learn about a few plant medicines.
(See the site map for a complete list.)
Edible Wild Berries
Carved Hiking Sticks - DIY
Alone In The Wilderness - Why Go Solo?
Wilderness Survival Kits
Wilderness Survival Tips
Make Your Own Clothes
Backpacking Foods
Make Tarps And Bivy Sacks
Ultralight backpacking Techniques
Bivy Sacks
Californis Hiking
Campfire Cooking
Colorado Hiking
Dirtbagging
Edible Wild Plants
Equipment Suppliers
Hiking In Michigan
Hiking In Southern Oregon
Socks, Sandles, Etc
Boots Versus Shoes
Hiking Staffs And Trekking Poles
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