BACKPACKING

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general topics

BackpackGearTest.org

Eastern Active Technologies edible gear? ;-)

Jason Klass homemade backpacking gear

The Lightweight Backpacker reviews

Make your own gear!

Onestep’s ultralight backpacking resource

Tested-Gear-Weight listing

Thru-Hiker reviews

Trailspace.com gear reviews

 

bedding

Sleeping bag comparison table by weight

 

clothing

Frogg Toggs review (1)

Frogg Toggs review (2)

Montane Featherlite smock

Montane Featherlite pants

Rollens sunglasses

 

lights

LED Museum

 

packs

Dayskin day pack

Make your own G4 pack

Lightweight Adventure Backpack (LAB pack)

 

shelter

Ben’s tarptent

Henry Shires’ tarptents

Just Jeff’s hammock camping overview

Hammocking: How to stay warm

Hammocking: How to stay dry

Hammocking: How to stay bug free

Ray Garlington’s hammock insulator

Ray Garlington’s hammock pants

Ray Garlington’s hammock design

Sgt. Rock on the Hennessy Hammock

Yahoo hammock camping group

 

stoves

Cooking with wood

Ion Stove

Penny Stove

Ron Moak’s Fallingwater stove

Ron Moak’s KISS stove page

Scott Henderson’s Pepsi Can stoves, new and old

Sgt. Rock’s cat stove

Trangia alcohol stoves

Wings: The home-made stove archives

Wood-burning stoves

Y2K Canned Heat: The gelled alcohol stove fuel

Zen Seeker’s Zen Backpacking Stoves (lots-o-info!)

Gear. Arr! The great subject of both expert backpackers and mindless bores.

But you can’t do without it. Luckily the lightweight hiker can make most everything, very cheaply.

And of course you can buy the rest. If you go light though, you need very little.

One thing you begin to learn is that gear isn’t the issue, thinking is. Changing your philosophy is. Learning to live with the landscape is.

Gear is only a means to an end, and if you go light enough, your gear becomes a helping friend, not a burden to suffer with.