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What's the advantage of ultralight backpacking? Well, you can climb that fourteener with your pack on when it weighs just fifteen pounds! Then descend by any route, since you don't have to retrieve a heavy backpack that was left behind (a common practice). That's freedom.
Sling your lightweight backpack from one shoulder to let your back cool while hiking. 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)
$ 7 or free. Click here for details.
Colorado Hiking: Story of my first long trip with lightweight gear. Rain and snow 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 : Summaries and links to the tales of ultralight backpacking on glaciers, floating down rivers, sleeping with coyotes in sand dunes, and more.
Light, Lighter, Lightest - 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.
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Emergency Stretcher (Sent in by a reader - Thank's Joe) If you need to evacuate a fellow hiker, two jackets can be used to make a stretcher. Cut two poles, zip up the jackets or coats, reverse them and slide them onto the poles. Make sure the poles are long enough for easy carrying. A hood on one of the jackets can be filled with clothes or grass and tied in place with cord to provide a pillow for the patient. Zippers should face up (they are less likely to fail this way). |
Wilderness
Survival Guide
60 pages on wilderness survival!
Edible
Plants | Useful Plants
More than 50 pages on edible and useful plants!
My Backpacking Philosophy
: Notes from a recent interview.
How To Think Like A Lightweight
Backpacker : Six questions that come to mind...
More Outdoor Survival Tips
: Pop can fires, pine sap foot coverings, and more.
Backpacking Light : Six
reasons, and why it doesn't mean sacrificing comfort.
Michigan Backpacking - Three
Unknown Places : Uninhabited islands, isolated rivers, and
more.
Five Tips for Choosing Women's
Hiking Boots : By Sarah Holt, including what time of day
to shop.
Wildlife Photography Made
Easy : By Sarah Holt. Simple strategies, tips on where animals
gather.
Backpacking With Children
: Six great tips from Sarah Holt.
Safe Drinking Water - Tips
For Backpackers : What foam means, how to use a map to find
water...
Medicine Bow - Hiking And Searching
For A Plane Crash : Day hike to a high summit.
Backpacking Recipes - Some
Simple Ones : No cooking required.
Scrambling : ... the left half
of my rock fell loose, and I watched it bounce down the mountainside...
Black Bears and Backpackers :
Avoiding trouble and dealing with it.
Animal Attacks : Which animal
is most dangerous, and what do you do when a cougar attacks?
Mosquito Control For Backpackers
: Seven tips.
The Mountain Goat And I : I
held out my left hand and took a photo of him licking it...
Outdoor Survival - Know Your
Priorities : They're here, in the order of most importance...
Survival Shelter - Think!
: Understanding the principles.
Making A Fire Without Matches
: It's not as easy as it looks on TV.
Lightweight Hiking - A True
Story : In the Colorado Rockies.
How To Make A Raft : And
float down a river on it.
Survival Foods : The most readily
available.
Survivorman : A review.
(See the site map for a complete list.)
Michigan Outdoors - Three Hidden Places
Sleeping Bag Ratings
Cheap Backpacks
Winter Backpacking Skills
Edible Wild Berries
Carved Hiking Sticks - DIY
Alone In The Wilderness - Why Go Solo?
Wilderness Survival Tips
Make Your Own Clothes
Backpacking Foods
Make Tarps And Bivy Sacks
Bivy Sacks
California Hiking
Campfire Cooking
Dirtbagging
Edible Wild Plants
Equipment Suppliers
Hiking In Michigan
Hiking In Southern Oregon
Socks, Sandals, Etc
Boots Versus Shoes
Hiking Staffs And Trekking Poles
Climbing Mount Shasta
River Rafting Adventure
National Parks List
You Might Be An Ultralight Backpacker If...
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