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Ultralight backpacking is an advanced style of backpacking that emphasizes packing (carrying) the lightest weight and most simple kit safely possible for a given trip. To reach this goal, base pack weight (the weight of a backpack plus the gear inside— excluding consumables such as food, water, and fuel, which vary depending on the duration and style of trip) is reduced as much as safely possible, though reduction of the weight of consumables is also applied. Although no technical standards exist, the terms light and ultralight commonly refer to base pack weights below 20 pounds (9.1 kg) and 10 pounds (4.5 kg) respectively. Traditional backpacking often results in base pack weights above 30 pounds (14 kg), and sometimes up to 60 pounds (27 kg) or more. Extreme enthusiasts of ultralight backpacking sometimes attempt super-ultralight backpacking in which the base pack weight is below 5 pounds (2.3 kg). From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License  cache.backpackinglight.com 413px x 550px | 104.50kB [source page] Elevation 9380 Ft 2 6 Miles to Mt Rose Summit Wet and Green Descent 0 7 Miles to 9160 Ft A nice change to get away from the barren rock terrain we came across wet patches of water stained trail green grasses and some mud  cache.backpackinglight.com 413px x 550px | 126.20kB [source page] Mine is a Caldera Ti Tri Inferno knock off although I haven t seen one this light weight It is a downdraft gasfier design with two cones Works really good was easy to make and only weighs 2 15oz  cache.backpackinglight.com 280px x 550px | 66.70kB [source page] Spooner Lake is right next to Highway 50 and is heavily visited by day hikers Sparkling Clean Mountain Water From Yahoo Image Search: "Ultralight Backpacking"  news.google.com Backpacker Magazine (Tip: Try our new favorite piece of cookware, the ultralight Evernew Titanium Pasta Pot. Check out the July/August issue for a full review.) Serves 2-4. ... and more » news.google.com Macon Telegraph Mostly now it is the ones who are hiking ultra light , he said. You carry as little weight as possible so you can hike faster. ... and more » news.google.com CTR From the ultra-light , backpack -ready HP Pavilion dv2z and the HP Pavilion dv6t notebook PCs to the wireless-ready HP Photosmart plus all-in-one printer, ... HP offers new notebook PCs, printers tailored to suit student ... RTT News all 19 news articles » From Google News Search: "Ultralight Backpacking" |
