Backpacking & Hiking with Ultralight Backpacking Gear

The Lightweight Backpacker™ promotes lightweight backcountry travel and provides abundant outdoor gear and guidance for year around backpacking and hiking.

Gear Checklists: Backpacking Gear Checklists, Ten Essentials, Seasonal Gear Lists, Day Hiking, Overnight Hiking

It features a plethora of backcountry subjects - not the least of which are backpacking gear checklists and, in general, lots of outdoor gear lists - including two generic gear checklists, one 7-day backpacking equipment list, one 3-day overnight hiking gear check list and a separate outdoor equipment checklist for each season. There's also a page devoted to the ten essentials -- the ten essential gear items one should carry on every backpacking trip. In addition to the backpacking essential gear list, you'll find other day hiking equipment and overnight hiking gear.

Gear Reviews: Backpacking Gear Reviews, Outdoor Gear Reviews

Many pages of backpacking gear and hiking equipment reviews (a distinction is made between lightweight and ultralight gear). There are also customer service reviews and low-cost, lightweight outdoor gear. The outdoor equipment reviews page features a form for submitting your lightweight outdoor gear reviews and your ultralight hiking equipment reviews.

Backpacking Gear: Buying Backpacking Gear, Outdoor Gear For Sale, Tips to Reduce Backpack Weight

There's considerable information about researching and buying backpacking gear and buying outdoor gear, tips to reduce backpack weight and for using outdoor gear for multiple purposes to achieve lighter backpacks, and practical backcountry wisdom and knowledge from fellow backpackers including homemade outdoor equipment solutions. Also, a set of pages devoted to outdoor gear for sale.

Backcountry Ethics, Snowshoeing, Winter Hiking, Beginning Backpacking, Hiking Sticks & Poles, Etc.

Backcountry ethics and practices, remedies for backpacking bad backs, introduction and instruction for walking sticks, a Winter hiking and snowshoeing page, a beginner backpacker page and much, much more.