Did you read all the articles at backpacking.net? The forums are great, too.

For recipes and food ideas, freezerbagcooking.com and A Fork in the Trail, and Lipsmackin' Backpackin', and lots of other good books available on Amazon, and the forums here have recipes posted in the Food area.

Backpackinglight.com has some free material - I haven't sprung for the membership so can't tell you if that's worth it.

Interested in making stoves? zenstoves.net or http://wings.interfree.it/html/main.html

Gossamer Gear, Antigravity gear, ULA and Titanium Goat. Jacks R Better quilts. Hammockforums.net. All online.

Mark Verber gave me lots of info as well.

This is the tip of the iceburg - you can dig deeper by just clicking through, clicking through.
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