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The Ultralight Backpacking Site

The Ultralight Backpacking Site

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Backpacking At Cottonwood Pass

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 Pages

Still a traditional backpacker? Read:
How To Become An Ultralight Backpacker

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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.

Over 180 pages on ultralight backpacking and growing...

Wilderness Survival Guide
50 new pages on wilderness survival!

Edible Plants | Useful Plants

More than 50 pages on edible and useful plants!

NEWEST PAGES!

(New pages are added to the top of the list so you can find them easily.)

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.

Other Pages:
(See the site map for a complete list.)

Hiking With Dogs
Rainwear
My Sleeping Bag
Mountain Hiking
North Carolina Hiking
Clothing Tips
3 Day Backpacking List
Five-Ounce Sleeping Bag
Sleeping Pads
Secrets Of Staying Warm
Ultralight Tarps
Ultralight Tents
Utah Hiking
Adventure Racing Gear
Climbing Mount Shasta
River rafting Adventure
National Parks List
You Might Be An Ultralight Backpacker If...
Winter Backpacking Skills
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
 

Chimborazo: 10 Pounds, 20,600 Feet!

Half-ounce Backpacking Stove!

Dress Socks The Best Hiking Socks?

My Five-ounce Sleeping Bag.

Jaguars Ripped My Flesh!

Make A Four-Ounce Insulated Vest.

Floating The River With An Umbrella.

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