Mike Clelland Videos

Mike Clelland works at Backpackinglight’s Wilderness Trekking School and writes articles for BPL.

Good for you on your "weight loss"! Feels good, huh?

Mike IS full of knowledge, in fact he was a staff member on this very site for years, and has authored books on lightweight backpacking. Great reads, IMO.

I own his "Ultralight Backpackin' Tips" and have enjoyed it.

Here’s a link to some Mike Clelland videos.

Where is Mike these days? Haven’t seen him post here in a long time.

HJ
Adventures In Stoving

lulz. I was at the climbing gym last night and some one had dropped off a bunch of old climbing magazines from 2005-2006. Sure enough the first article I thumbed to was illustrated by Mike C.

He's a fairly prolific illustrator for outdoor oriented writing and used to be very active on this site.

As for where he's been lately, probably abducted by aliens…

Maybe this is the explanation? ;)

HJ
Adventures In Stoving

"I'm currently at 13 pounds (down from 17)"
Nice job on going lighter without spending money.

"a lighter filter (Katadyn Hiker, 13 ounces)"
Read more here and you will see most do not use filters. If you found Mike C's videos look at the one where he uses Aqua Mira drops. That is chlorine dioxide which you can also buy in tablet form. Depending upon where you hike a filter is most likely not necessary.

Keep lurking and you will be amazed how many great ideas there are here on this and other sites.

Yeah. When I said 'filter' I meant any type of water treatment.

Actually a lot of people use filters still, mostly the sawyer squeeze. Really depends on where you hike (alpine mountains ClO2 works well as backup, slow moving muddy creeks a filter is real nice). I just got a squeeze myself because I hike so much in cattle country that the convenience/time factor is hard to beat for a 1oz weight penalty.

Mike, if you put the word “backpacking” in the title of each video, more people might see the videos.

YouTube channel here,

https://www.youtube.com/user/mikeclellandmc

Sadly Mike doesn’t come here anymore. He is missed.

Agree – I miss Mike C!’s contributions to BPL.