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On the Web
- Backpacking Tips - Backpacking Tips is a leading resource on everything backpacking and hiking related. Contains information about training for backpacking, nutrition, and gear. Useful backpacking checklists are available.
- The Ultralight Backpacking Site - Stories and information about ultralight backpacking. Includes gear lists with weights, a backpacking food list with calorie counts, and links to other backpacking resources.
- Outside Online - 2002 Buyer's Guide: Backpacks - Outside Magazine's guide to backpacks, including how to select a backpack plus reviews, descriptions, and photos of the top packs tested by their experts.
- Lightweight and ultralight backpacking - Ultralight backpacking adventure page with gear lists and trip reports.
- Ultralight Backpacking and Outdoor Pursuits - Centerwalk is a site for Ultralight Backpacking and Ultralight Backpackers. Included are tips and techniques, as well as links to other sources of information.
- Backpack Earth - Book hostel beds, backpacks for backpackers, Euro Rail Passes, packing tips and backpacker message boards
- Great Lakes Lightweight Backpacking - Provides personal notes on the ultra-light backpacking philosophy along with reviews for lightweight gear and shelters. Explains techniques for carrying less weight that enhances the backpacking experience. Offers details about hikes in the Great Lakes region and northern lower Michigan.
- BikerDave's Ultralight Backpackers Home Buyers Guide - Specifications for ultralight backpacking equipment, listed from lightest to heaviest in these categories: tents, tarptents, pyramids and shaped tarps, basic tarps and ponchos, hammocks and camping hammocks, bivy sacks, sleeping bags, sleeping pads and backpacks.
- Sierra Nevada Backpacking - Information for Sierra Nevada hiker, backpacker and mountaineer. Includes locations and maps of all High Sierra passes, plus trails, backpacking checklist, clothing, gear, Sierra backpacking books, weather, and photos.
- Wilderness backpacking tips and advice - The Wilderness backpacking website is dedicated to providing useful information for wilderness campers and backpackers.
Wikipedia Articles
- Backpacking Light Magazine - Backpacking Light Magazine was founded in early 2001 by modern-day ultralight backpacking evangelist Ryan Jordan (hiker), author of Lightweight Backpacking and CampingJordan, Ryan (Editor). Lightweight Backpacking and Camping: A Field Guide to Wilderness Equipment, Technique, and Style Beartooth Mountain Press (2005).
- Ultralight backpacking - Ultralight backpacking is a style of backpacking that emphasizes the use of the lightest-weight equipment available. Ultralight backpackers strive to reduce their base pack weight (the weight a pack and the gear inside excluding consumables such as food, water, and fuel) as much as possible.
- Backpacking (travel) - Backpacking is a term used to denote a form of low-cost independent international travel, differentiating it from other forms of tourism notably by the following typical attributes: minimal budget use, longer duration traveling, use of public transport and multiple destinations/countries. The origin of the name comes from ...
- Backpacking - Backpacking may refer to:
- Backpacking (wilderness) - Backpacking (also tramping or trekking or bushwalking in some countries) combines hiking and camping in a single trip. A backpacker hikes into the backcountry to spend one or more nights there, and carries supplies and equipment to satisfy sleeping and eating needs.