Lightweight Backpacking Tips
These tips and techniques are easier to pack options or ideas, not recommendations. I tend toward the extreme ultra-light hiking, and if you do not know you or your abilities, some of these techniques is in trouble.
A good example is the mattress "of course" that allows you to leave your sleeping bags behind. With this technique, I slept without padding, and only five ounces scheduled a night of sleep, ifIt 'was close to zero. It took fifteen minutes to gather ferns enough to make a mattress six feet thick, but is cozy and warm.
You can use leaves, pine needles, dry grass or dry bracken. Just make a pile large enough for a tent or bivouac bag. This could damage the environment in certain areas, then you use common sense, and collect only dead vegetation. Also, scatter your materials in the morning, so as not to smother the plants underneath.
AThe important point is that you need to know the environment, you know I will be able to find, clean mattress materials. Otherwise you might get a very cold night, or worse. In addition, the gloves should collect more simple and safe, the ferns or grass. Try this home near the first.
Knowledge reduces the weight
Learn the techniques of some tourists, like the previous one, and it is possible a lightweight sleeping bag, less clothing and food, less wear. Wilderness survival knowledgecan help reduce weight, but also allows the desert to be safe.
Learn what fruits are edible, and you can eat as usual, and bring food excursions less. I ate half of my caloric needs, such as berries a few days in the desert. During a hike to Grinnell Glacier Glacier National Park, my wife and I ate nine types of berries.
Climate research, and the calendar can help reduce weight. You can leave the house, rain gear, for example, if you are in the East Sierra Nevada in the month of September (bring a garbage bag for emergencies). I am planning some trips with the full moon. I like the clock until four in the morning and walks in the moonlight, and I and spend the coldest night I can get a package of light.
Reduces the weight of money
The money to buy gear backpack lighter and more expensive equipment is generally very high quality. I did not pay more than $ 200 for my sleep> Pocket, but I was never cold, and weighs only 17 grams.
Focusing on key points. A sawed-off toothbrush to save 1 / 4 ounce, but a protection, it can be pounds. It takes a look at small things. Buy a dual purpose, as a poncho that can double as a shelter. Drinking tea and soup from the pot, and you do not need a bowl or cup.
Rent things reduces the weight
This may be the most difficult part of the runway light. Ask each section;I can do without? Ovens are not necessary if you eat ready to do. You do not need a change of shirt or pants for a trip of three days. If you're not sure you will like a minimalist solution satisfied, return the money. Starting your business easier to replace with alternatives, you can buy. There are several possibilities for the backpacking light.