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
their backpacks light.
Super-Ultralight
Backpacking Techniques has general principles and specific
backpacking tips to help you keep it really light.
Lightweight
Backpacking Equipment is the 2011 update covering the latest
gear for ultralight backpackers.
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.
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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