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Lightweight Footwear Systems for Snow Travel Part 1: Principles and Techniques for Keeping Feet Dry and Warm
High-tech gear to keep your feet dry and warm is useless without the proper knowledge on how to use it, and that’s especially true for lightweight footwear in cold and wet conditions.
Marmot Atom Sleeping Bag REVIEW
A one pound, three-season bag with top quality materials.
Komperdell Featherlight Carbon Trekking Pole REVIEW
Stiff, light, reasonably priced fixed-length pole with contoured grip and wrist strap.
Make Your Own Gear: Gaiters for Bushwhacking
Lightweight, tough gaiters that are suitable for bushwhacking and easy to make.
Osprey Talon 44 Backpack REVIEW
A roomy, comfortable, lightweight framed backpack with lots of pockets, good load control, an adjustable torso length, and a few weak spots.
White Box Stove REVIEW
While not the lightest around, this simple pressurised alcohol stove is remarkably robust.
SteriPEN Adventurer Water Purifier REVIEW
A reasonably light and very effective means of purifying water to EPA purifier standards.
Stoves, Tents and Carbon Monoxide – Deadly or Not?
Part 2: Testing the Theory
Can you run your backpacking stove inside your tent, or do you risk death by Carbon Monoxide poisoning?
Montane Prism Jacket REVIEW
The lightest hooded synthetic fill jacket on the market.
GoLite Jam2 Backpack REVIEW
GoLite makes some significant improvements on an old favorite – without increasing the weight!
GoLite Quest Backpack REVIEW
Right on target for the lightweight backpacker: 70-liter, 3-pound internal frame pack with the right load-carrying capacity and feature set.
Osprey Talon 33 Backpack REVIEW
High performance sub-2-pound, 2000 ci frameless pack for active light pursuits.
Make Your Own Gear: Five Yards to SuperUltraLight
Part 4, Pack
Complete instructions to construct a 3.1-ounce, 1700-cubic inch pack.
Origo Rendezvous Peak Multi-Function Watch REVIEW
User friendly and useful as an outdoor navigational aid – if you master its functions and keep it calibrated.
Ultralight in the Icebox
Andrew Skurka, who pioneered the 7700-mile Sea-to-Sea Route, discusses his expectations, concerns, and gear choices for a frigid 400-mile hike through northern Minnesota with ultralight gear.
Bushwhacking Gear: Heavyweight Fabrics and Compatible Construction Techniques to Improve Clothing Longevity for Off-trail Bushwhacking
Thorns, scrub and sandstone can rip ultralight clothing to shreds. What materials and construction techniques hold up to serious bushwhacking?
La Sportiva Trango S EVO GTX Mountaineering Boot REVIEW
Ultralight mountaineering boots that are great on rock and ice as well as long approaches on the trail. But are they durable and warm enough?
Wingnut Adventure 2006 Backpack REVIEW
Small volume (1600 ci, 26 L) adventure racing pack that is ideal for biking and adequate for hiking.
Western Mountaineering Summerlite Sleeping Bag REVIEW
Hooded, down mummy bag rated to freezing that weighs a mere 19 ounces.
CiloGear 60 Liter WorkSack Backpack REVIEW
Durable and adjustable, but initially confusing to set up.
