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MSR – Mountain Safety Research : Stoves : PocketRocket 3 oz stove if you can believe it.

Backpacker.com – Budget Boots L.L. Bean GTX Mountain Treads MidFinal Grade 4.0 For an ultralight boot, the Mountain Treads provide an unsurpassed blending of comfort and support. This could be the one for me. Lots of anchor support and light too from llbean.com and good dampness protection.

Compact frames. Looking at new road bikes. Howie Rosen just got a compact frame Seven, so I thought I would learn more about it. Giant and Specialized and now Litespeed make one.

Backpacker.com – Asolo Fusion 95 GTX Asolo Fusion 95 GTX Combining the light weight of an approach shoe with the support of a serious leather backpacking boot, these hikers offer the best of all worlds.All six models in the Fusion line are intended to blend the support of a backpacking boot with the light weight…

Backpacker.com – Snow Peak GS-010 GigaPower White Gasoline Stove Snow Peak GS-010 GigaPower White Gasoline Stove Faster meals! No messy priming! Meet the white gas stove that virtually lights itself.

Backpacker.com – Mountainsmith Mountainlight Packs Auspex (men’s)/ Chimera (women’s) Photo by Jonathan Dorn Mountainsmith Auspex The packbag on these models is a long, slender, single-compartment top-loader. Jon used the Auspex on a series of fall weekends and winter overnights, applauding “the just-enough-but-not-too-much harness and features.” I carried the Chimera on a weekend hike with 35…

Backpacker.com – Mountainsmith Mountainlight Packs Mountainsmith Mountainlight Packs These are the most comfortable lightweight load-carriers we’ve tested.

Backpacker.com – GSI Outdoors Hard Anodized Extreme Cookware GSI Outdoors Hard Anodized Extreme Cookware Lightweight, durable, and easy to clean, this is the best camp cookware we’ve used.

Backpacker.com – Kelty 50th Anniversary Pack Pick up Kelty’s 50th Anniversary pack and you’ll immediately understand why it won an Editors’ Choice Award. The 50th Anniversary shaves not ounces but pounds off the weight of previous external frame packs. And it accomplishes the savings without diminishing the terrific load support you’d expect from an external…

HI-TECH Bikes – Mountain Bikes, Road , Triathelete, Time Light parts 101 Here you will find listings of the lighest parts we are able to procure. Some parts have rider wieght limits which we will post and some have recomdations. Saddles, AX Lightness 85grams, not available, working on it. SLR 135 gram SLR Evolution, not…