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First Aid
Ultralight Backpacking Stuff Sacks for Thru Hikes & Backcountry Trips
Words by Mike St. Pierre
It's what's inside that counts: Stuff Sacks, Pods, Waterproof Redundancy, and Organization.
Most backpackers and thru hikers use stuff sacks, sometimes almost by default. ...
Backpacking
Never Not Learning: How to Pack Light For Backpacking with Mike St. Pierre
Words & Photos by Mike St. Pierre When you’re first learning the ins-and-outs of how to pack light for backpacking, it’s important to understand that it’s a process. I still constantly refine t...
Backcountry Food
How to Develop Your Own Personal Nutrition Strategy (+ New Lightweight Backpacking Food Ideas)
Words & Photos by Matt Jenkins A critical component of every trip into the wilderness is food. Whether going out for a couple of hours or a couple of months, some attention needs to be paid to ...
Gear
How to Make Your Own Backpacking First Aid Kit
We first published this guide to making your own ultralight backpacking first aid kit a little over a year and half ago. In the lead up to this year’s backpacking and thru hiking season, thought we...
Backpacking Recipes
Build Better Ultralight Backpacking Meals With Heavyweight Nutrition
For this series of posts on ultralight nutrition, we tapped Boulder, CO-based sports nutritionist Brian Rigby. Brian holds a Master of Science in Applied Clinical Nutrition and is a Certified Sport...
Gear Lists + Reviews
Essential Tarp Camping
Words & Photos by Cam Honan Nine Reasons to Try Tarp Camping The essence of going lighter in the woods is not so much about gear, as it is about the adoption of a simpler, less cluttered approa...
Backcountry
Ultralight + Ultra-tough = The “Ultamid” Pyramid Tent
For the past three years, our Ultamid 2 and 4-person ultralight pyramid shelters have been quietly winning hearts and minds out in the field. 2016 was no exception–the ‘Mid movement is gaining stea...
How To
Double Duty: Lightening Your Backpacking Load with Multi-Purpose Gear
“If you can’t ride two horses at once you shouldn’t be in the circus.” – James Maxton (1885-1946) Text by Cam Honan One of many ways in which a hiker can lower his or her pack weight is by using m...
Gear
Carry a Lighter Pack: 3 Tips To Reduce Food, H2O & Fuel Weight
Streamline Your Consumables to Carry a Lighter Pack & Enhance Your Adventure. Text by Philip Werner Ultralight backpackers spend a great deal of time and effort reducing the weight of their gea...
Gear
Pack Reviews: What is the consensus on our packs?
Our ultralight packs are meant to be used hard. Adventurers across the spectrum agree. Read the gear reviews… We make gear that is meant to be used. Hard. And no one puts our gear through its paces...
Backpacking Recipes
Backcountry Recipes: How to Gain Weight On Even the Most Grueling Thru Hike
Text & photos by Chris Atwood. Chris Atwood did a 57-day thru hike below the rim of the Grand Canyon with Ambassador Rich Rudow (Read “The Grandest Walk: A 700-Mile Thru Hike Below the Rim“). D...
Backpacking Recipes
How To Patch a Dyneema (Formerly Cuben Fiber) Backpack
After 57 days in the Grand Canyon backcountry, my Hyperlite Mountain Gear Southwest 4400 still looks great. It saw the spectrum of conditions, literally every type of weather imaginable below the ...
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