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Understanding your own Desires, Capabilities and Fears will yield the greatest rewards and may be your most difficult task. We are dynamic creatures; our desires fluctuate as wildly as our emotions and are frequently at odds with each other. Identifying Your Desires? Clearly the primary desire for anyone...

Focus on Maximizing the Experience Not Minimizing the Gear Too often when start talking about this subject or that we overlook the obvious or at least what we assume to be obvious. We dive directly into the meat of the matter without bothering to elaborate on topics which we presume is generally understood...

There are four core principles that when fully understood, crystallize the essence of the Ultralight Hikers Philosoply . They are Focus on Maximizing the Experience , Embrace Multipicity , The Power of Synergy and finally The Theory of Elasticity . If you are familiar with UL Backpacking, at least three...

In the dozen or so years since the concepts of Ultralight Backpacking was first penned by Ray Jardine, much has changed. Early adopters of ultralight backpacking were forced to make most of their own gear. Aside from your basic tarps, little ultralight gear was available. Normal backpacks averaged 5...