Backpacking Tips, Lists, And Resources

Backpacking tips and more: What should you eat? Who is Ray Jardine? How light can you go? Does ultralight backpacking with a dog require an ultralight dog? Follow the links below for the answers. Also check out the bottom of the page for links to other good sites.

Backpacking Food tells you how to save weight on food without going hungry.

Ray Jardine And The Ultralight Backpacking Revolution is about the man who most inspired both hikers and manufacturers to keep it light.

Super-Ultralight Backpacking Techniques has general principles and specific backpacking tips to help you keep it really light.

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Dirtbagging: Cheap Ultralight Backpacking is about stripping backpacking down to it's essence: fun and adventure.

Edible Wild Plants is about the advantages of supplementing your backpacking diet or at least knowing what to eat in an emergency.

Hiking With Dogs argues that it can be okay to bring a dog, although I never do.

Campfire Cooking discusses when it is okay to have fires for cooking, and the advantages.

A Backpacking List: 3 Days Under 10 Pounds is an example of what I take for a 3-day, 2-night hike.

How To Make A Backpacking Website explains how I made this site.

The Backpacking Weather Report has climate statistics and weather reports for cities in every state and country.

National Parks List is a list with a link to the official home page for every national park, monument and recreation area that has hiking or backpacking trails.

The Mountain Hiking Site is a whole other web site, devoted to hiking and backpacking in the mountains of the world.

Backpacking Links : My official "links page."

You'll also find many backpacking tips, or tips for emergency situations, on the wilderness survival pages. Here are links to a few of the 60 survival pages:

Wilderness Survival Guide

Wilderness Survival Tips

Staying Warm

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