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Trekking Techniques for Early-Season Conditions
Andrew Skurka's insights and techniques for early season trekking can dramatically increase the length of your normal hiking season.
Granite Gear Vapor Day Pack Review
Lightweight, full-featured, very comfortable internal frame day pack.
Podcast: Making Unconventional Choices for a Better Life
John Coffer is out of step with modern life - and that is just the way he likes it. Carol Crooker talks with John about his journey to contentment.
Rab Latok eVENT Glove SPOTLITE REVIEW
These eVENT-lined gloves performed so well they left me wondering why eVENT gloves are not more common.
Kamik Viper Insulated Boots SPOTLITE REVIEW
Good lightweight insulated boots for travel in dry snow, but they have some major drawbacks for wet snow travel and for normal hiking and backpacking.
Arc’Teryx Squamish WindShell Review
A full-featured, high quality windshell
Affluenza: Fact-Heavy Book Carries a Lightweight Message
Affluenza, as it is defined by the authors, is “a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.”
GoLite Ultra Quilt Review
High-quality, 800-fill down quilt with Pertex Endurance “Arid Zone” patches at head and foot is a solid value.
Green Waste? Trends in Retail Packaging for Outdoor Industry Products
Attractive and durable packaging is one thing; green packaging is quite another. The best companies have both. Learn about green packaging and see the best and worst of what the Outdoor Industry has to offer.
Reducing Winter Pack Weight: Wood Fire Cooking in the Snow
For the hardcore ultralighter, cooking over wood fires in the winter offers a way to substantially reduce pack weight on longer trips, adds a bit of warmth around camp, and forces you to learn fire skills that just might save your life someday.
Backcountry Cookfires: Overview and Techniques for Cooking Over an Open Flame
Bill Stadwiser explores the practical and emotional rewards of cooking over wood in the backcountry.
Packrafting the Grand Canyon
Roman Dial leads first legal (permitted) packrafting trek in the Grand Canyon.
New Book on PACKRAFTING Sends Rapidly Growing Sport to the Mainstream
Backpacking Light Magazine to launch first book on Packrafting in June 2008.
Podcast: The Fight to Permit Packrafting in the Grand Canyon
Carol Crooker interviews Roman Dial about his experience with the NPS for securing a permit to packraft the Grand Canyon.
Podcast: Cameron McNeish and the Emotional Value of Wilderness Hiking
Ron Craighead explores the emotional value of wilderness with author, adventurer, and magazine editor Cameron McNeish of Scotland.
Website Review: UltralightLiving.com
UltralightLiving.com explores the extension of ultralight backpacking philosophies to other areas of your life.
Icebreaker Cross Cami SPOTLITE REVIEW
Women's merino wool top with built in support.
I/O Biocompatibles Contact Long Sleeve Crew SPOTLITE REVIEW
A new company provides another choice in technical wool clothing.
Ultralight Packrafting in Cataract Canyon
A river explorer takes on the Colorado River in a packraft.
2008 LuxuryLite Big Survival Stik Walking Staff REVIEW
This is a modern version of the traditional hardwood walking staff. Made of carbon fiber, it is much stronger and more robust than even the stiffest of trekking poles. It has an adjustable hand strap, breaks down into sections, and can even be converted into a “trail defense system".
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