BACKPACKING

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general topics

BackcountryForum.com

BackpackGearTest.org

Eastern Active Technologies edible gear? ;-)

Jason Klass homemade backpacking gear

Make your own gear!

Tested-Gear-Weight listing

Trailspace.com gear reviews

 

bedding

Sleeping gear comparison table

 

clothing

Frogg Toggs review

Montane Featherlite smock

Montane Featherlite pants

Rollens sunglasses

 

lights

LED Museum

 

packs

Backpack comparison table

Lightweight Adventure Backpack (LAB pack)

LitePacks (Rodney Liwanag)

Make your own G4 pack

Rodney Liwanag’s LAB Pack

 

shelter

Ben’s tarptent

Henry Shires’ tarptents

Just Jeff’s hammock camping overview

Hammocking: How to stay warm

Hammocking: How to stay dry

Hammocking: How to stay bug free

Ray Garlington’s hammock insulator

Ray Garlington’s hammock pants

Ray Garlington’s hammock design

Sgt. Rock on the Hennessy Hammock

Shelter comparison table

Yahoo hammock camping group

 

stoves

Cooking with wood

Esbit: the lightweight backpacking stove option

Fuzzy’s Lil’ Stove

Penny Stove

Ron Moak’s Fallingwater stove

Ron Moak’s KISS stove page

The Pika Stove

Sgt. Rock’s cat stove

Sgt. Rock’s Ion Stove

Stoves and cookware comparison table

The Super Cat Alcohol Stove

Trangia alcohol stoves

Wings: The home-made stove archives

Y2K Canned Heat: The gelled alcohol stove fuel

Zen Seeker’s Zen Backpacking Stoves (lots-o-info!)

Gear. Arr! The great subject of both expert backpackers and mindless bores.

But you can’t do without it. Luckily the lightweight hiker can make most everything, very cheaply.

And of course you can buy the rest. If you go light though, you need very little.

One thing you begin to learn is that gear isn’t the issue, thinking is. Changing your philosophy is. Learning to live with the landscape is.

Gear is only a means to an end, and if you go light enough, your gear becomes a helping friend, not a burden to suffer with.