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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
- Granite Gear - Granite Gear Backpacks is a producer of backpacks and is located in Two Harbors, Minnesota known for its construction techniques and backpack durability. The most notable piece of technology used in many of their backpacks is a molded, 3-dimensional frameplate.
- Tilly's - Tilly's is a retail store that sells merchandise such as shoes, clothes, and backpacks. The brands they sell are mostly surf, skate, and motocross brands.
- The Mormons (band) - The Mormons are a Los Angeles based punk band, origin circa 1998, influenced by Devo, Minor Threat, Screeching Weasel, Bad Brains and Talking Heads. Although no band members are members of the LDS Church, they wear outfits inspired by Mormon missionaries: bicycle helmets, backpacks, stud belts, Dickies, scatterings of facial hair and thrift store ties.
- Lafuma - Lafuma is a French based company that specializes in outdoor equipment, such as backpacks and sleeping bags. They also offer a wide variety of other equipment, earning comparisons to United States based companies such as Timberland and Columbia Sportswear.
- Tamrac - Tamrac, Inc. is a US based manufacturer of Camera/Photographic equipment bags and Backpacks/Rucksacks.