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Ultra-Light and Lightweight Equipment and Accessories for hiking, backpacking and mountaineering. A good priced overview of lightweight equipment.

Backpacking Light – The Journal of Lightweight Hiking and Backcountry Travel. Can you believe there is an entire website that is devoted to lightweight backpacking?

Backpacker.com – Challenge The Editor: The Ultralight Report- Print View Gear List for me to look at and think about buying… Shelter Integral Designs Sil Poncho: 10 oz. Groundcloth Tyvek sheet (2′ x 8′): 6 oz. Pack GVP G4: 12.5 oz. Sleeping Bag Marmot Never Winter: 32 oz. (size long, 30?F down) Stuff sacks (2)…

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.