Ultralight Backpacking And Mountain Gear Blog

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Repack
Perfect

Hillary Pride's Coconut
Mango Sticky Rice Recipe
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One Hundred
Divide By Eight

Deedra Zeeh Goes to School
in Maine's 100-Mile Wilderness
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A Ferocious Fear
of Finishing Famished

With Triple Crowner Eloise Robbins
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Smooth
Operator

Getting Efficient
with Garrett Martin
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Backcountry Adventures

  1. REFLECTIONS ON BACKCOUNTRY SKIING FROM CODY TOWNSEND AND IAN PROVO

  2. Subjective Danger on Arizona's Mogollon Rim Trail

  3. Q&A: The North Woods From Away – An Ultralight Canoe Trip in Northern Minnesota

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Shakedown

  1. SAME ADVENTURES THROUGH THE AGES: ULTRALIGHT FOR OLDER BACKPACKERS

  2. YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW: LESSONS EARNED ON A CALENDAR YEAR TRIPLE CROWN

  3. DRESS LIKE AN ONION: PEELING BACK THE LAYERS FOR EFFECTIVE AND COMFORTABLE HIGH DESERT BACKPACKING

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On The Trail

  1. SIXTY-SEVEN POINTS TO POINT TO: THE GEAR LIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND DIRETTISSIMA

  2. SIXTY-SEVEN POINTS TO POINT TO: WILL PETERSON'S NEW ENGLAND DIRETTISSIMA

  3. Living Your Best Life In The Dead of Winter: A Hike Up Mount Marcy

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Our Gear's Got Stories

  1. MEGA PINTS AND MEGA VERT ON THE GR20 IN CORSICA

  2. ONE LAST HIKE WITH A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND

  3. THE SITUATION IS THE BOSS, MAN: HUMBLY HYPOTHERMIC ON THE COLORADO TRAIL

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DYNEEMA®
TECHNOLOGY
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SUBMIT
YOUR STORY