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Stuart in the Mountains

Lightweight Backpacking

By Stuart Morris

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Ten Pound Backpack is about making your backpack weigh less so that you can enjoy the outdoors more.

It's about lightweight backpacking, about ditching every redundant, too-heavy, useless piece of gear in your backpack and finding lighter replacements for the few pieces of gear that you actually do need, so that you can embrace lightweight backpacking. The goal is to get the base weight of your pack, that is the weight of everything minus what you're wearing, food, and water, to under ten pounds. There are a few things around the site that will help you get there...

The Gear Lists are just that, lightweight backpacking gear listed by weight and other features that will allow you to compare different options.

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There's also a whole wealth of information on lightweight backpacking available at Ten Pound Backpack. Here are some of the basic articles to get you started with lightweight backpacking.
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And if you know of a piece of lightweight backpacking gear that we're missing on a gear list or you just want to say hi, then get in touch with us under Contact Us.

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