Lightweight Backpacking Gear
TenPoundBackpack is here to help you help you have the best possible time in the outdoors, whether you're camping, backpacking or just going hiking. We think a big part of that enjoyment comes from having the right, often lightweight backpacking and camping gear. After all, why carry a heavy tent on your back when you could carry a lightweight tent instead?
Lightweight Backpacking Posts
Grizzly Bear Spray
There is no real difference between the bear spray needed for a certain kind of bear. Grizzly bear spray will work equally well for black bears, and even other animals such as cougars. What makes spray suitable for a bear to begin with is that it ...
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Gps Personal Locator Beacon
When you’re lost, alone in the wilderness, a GPS personal locator beacon is the little piece of technology that you really want to have with you. A survival kit will help you survive, but unless you have something like a GPS personal locator beaco...
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Down Camping Pillow
If you find yourself in cold conditions then you need an insulated sleeping pad, because you actually lose quite a bit of heat in to the ground at night, and you need to capture that heat and reflect it. Of course the same is true for your head, w...
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Trail Hiking Shoes
Trail hiking is a lot of fun, but you really do need the proper footwear if you’re going to get out there on the trail. Trail hiking shoes are the ideal solution. But there are a wide variety of choices when it comes to trail hiking shoes, and you...
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Cheap Trekking Poles
Trekking poles are a great piece of equipment to have with you when you’re hiking or backpacking, but they can also get fairly expensive, in to the hundreds of dollars, for some of the better trekking poles. But finding cheap trekking poles that a...
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