A lightweight backpack is more fun. Enjoy a float trip on the trail, instead of carrying heavy gear. You can pack a lightweight when it relentlessly analyzing every piece of gear in your backpack. Here are 201 tips to reduce the weight of the package must be respected. Some are big, some small. This is part of the mystery. Little things add up. The old and apparently are mentioned because they are some of the most important. Have fun, a fanatic. If your friends to negative commentscalls on them to lift the backpack and compare them. Consider these suggestions buffet, and you take what you like:
1 Buy a digital scale. Here you will find a good definition of the measures 1 / 10 ounce for about $ 30. You are the weight of some items may be surprised. You can take your lightweight, portable ladder to stores and purchase decisions as before. Do not be afraid of sales people with little or no knowledge of backpacking gear they sell. It is now under control. Let fearThem.
2 Remove excess weight from the body. Lose those unwanted pounds is probably the best weight loss can be done. It is not from all your favorite devices in the home. Do you feel better, and there is a net gain in strength and endurance.
3 It should be mentioned at least once. If you do not need it, leave home.
4 Avoid last-minute packing. If you hurry and take the last minute, you're more interested in things like extra clothes you throwdo not need.
5 If you are backpacking with a friend, to plan ahead and let the weight of equipment such as tents and cooking equipment.
6 Develop your skills in sewing. Be creative. Some of the best and cheapest is ultra light backpacking gear is the way you do.
Package
7 Buy a light backpack. The package is to illuminate one of the best places. It is necessary to reduce the volume and weight of each piece of equipment, use the package lighter. The end result, A package that weighs less than 2 pounds. This is a saving of more than £ 5 on the big "monster load" package.
8 Do not buy a package with too much capacity. You can also try to fill it, and is no longer smooth when partially filled with a handle.
9 Try your backpack without a belt. You might like it better.
10 Remove the packaging of the chest strap when not in use.
11 Remove all tags from the bag manufacturers. In fact, to remove the tags from all devicesincluding clothing. Save the instructions for the care of clothing if you can not remember how to wash.
12 Cut some of the length of the belt and strap on the pack. Remember to leave enough time when you wear thicker clothes.
13 If the package is aluminum stays, or other reinforcing material that can be removed, the implementation of the package without proof. The light ends without you really need reinforcements. Positive ThinkingBeginning.
14 If the package is large buckles or stopper, has found a way to replace them with light.
15 Do not worry too much for the lighter materials in a lightweight package. These materials are still very strong. You can repair that are easier than with Seam Grip McNett strip are. It works for sleeping bags, tents and other equipment, too.
16 If you need a cover package, use one that is very easy, as those made of 1.3 oz silicone coated nylon. Or use aLight bag. Or, spray backpack with a waterproof coating. Your package is already waterproof. Check the manufacturer's specifications. You may be able to cover the weight of a parcel.
17 bags of stuff can help Ultralight compression, reducing the volume of your equipment. You can reduce the total weight of bag compression, because you end up with a smaller package.
Sleeping Gear
18 Buy a sleeping bag that is not "excessive." It 'amazing howMany people buy a sleeping bag for low temperature and then use the bag for summer camping than 95% of the time.
19 It uses a sleeping bag. Nothing is more effective for weight. Do not worry too much about the wet and loses its effectiveness. Bags of high quality materials with the shell, which have a very close relationship and are very hydrophobic, they tend to protect the bottom. The fund also has natural oils in it. He works for the goose. Use your skills to your dry bag. Keepin a waterproof bag.
20 They have a small towel handy to wipe the condensation from the walls of the tent. This will help you realize your lightweight sleeping bag at best.
21 A piece of canvas, painter, very light and thin, plastic garbage bag or a light can be used to keep moisture from the foot of the sleeping bag. The plastic garbage bag or how to keep multiple applications can run dry.
22 With a light bag, you can always add extra layers of clothingHeat.
23 You can also add a silk lining, the heat and weighs less than 4 oz.
24 Turn your bag for an ultralight aircraft that has made 1.3 oz. Silicone coated nylon. They weigh less than 0.6 ounces.
25 Keep your sleeping bag clean. This maintains high efficiency.
26 Keep your sleeping bag in a large storage bag, if it is at home, so it maintained its full loft and maximum efficiency.
The air from the bag 27 during the lunch break and as soon aspossible after a field. Moisture can evaporate and the bag can be fully loft.
28 Eating and drinking before bedtime. This helps the body to efficiently heat the sleeping bag.
29 If your feet get a little 'cold, you can make things as easy as paper bags or plastic bags, use it hot. You can use the bags for the activities of dual purpose, and adds little weight. You may be responsible for those wet clothes and shoes in the tent. The sleeping bag bagcan be used as a foot warmer.
30 can reduce the air with an ultralight backpack weight and volume of your mattress and increase comfort. You can just as easily as about 20 ounces for a full-length mattress.
31 You can get an air mattress in the pipes with insulation is about 1 ounce more.
Inflatable sleeping pad 32 not allow to open as much as possible so that the moisture evaporates inside.
33 A closed-cell foam pad is easy to use and easy. You can also cutAreas that do not need to save a few grams.
The 34 is lighter than air mattresses available, a balloon is brought in bed. It is not a joke. The dish can be 1.3 oz. (Or more light) silicone coated nylon ripstop. Sew 7 tubes (or more or less) in 60 "fabric along. Leave the ends open to insert and remove the balloon. Insert Qualatex 60" balloons (model 260Q), because they are the strongest. Use clear or white, because they are stronger in color. The ball weighs less than 4 bedOz. A pump can have a weight of 1.3 or 2.2 oz Each night you will use new balls, so Figure 8 a night. Eight balls weigh 0.4 oz. These figures are for a break. Do not pop when you lay on them, but they can pop when they bind. See more at balloonbed.com. Or make your own and get balloons and a pump with tmyers.com, larocksmagic.com or others.
35 You can go crazy and use bubble wrap for your carpet if you do not need much insulation or cushion. It will weigh about 4Oz. There is a variety that is made with some nylon, much stronger than the cheapest way, but still pop the bubbles, if you focus on the knee or elbow directly on a small area.
36 Ultralight Backpackers have created a lot of ideas for lightweight cushion. One of the most common uses your personal clothing for a pillow. A Place in the clothing is included in a sleeping bag stuff sack.
37 If you are ultra-light pack, which often do not have much in terms ofExtra clothing. Some hikers use their pack a pillow. Addresses a second challenge, where your package in a tent.
38 A small piece of foam with some of your equipment below can serve as a pillow.
39 At 0.4 ounces, you can get a cushion of Office Depot. There is an x 10 12 "plastic packaging wrap air" bubble "that you can blow up and deflate with a straw.
Protection
40 You can use a lot of weight by using an ultra-lightweight tent that weighs three pounds two minutes to spareTwo persons tent, or less than two pounds for a single person tent.
41 If you normally backpack with a companion, the purchase of one-person tent for those times you go solo.
If you already have 42 walking sticks, you can save the weight of the tent poles in some tents.
43 If you want to keep an old curtain, you can save weight by replacing the pole with lightweight carbon fiber poles.
44 If you have an old tent that you like, you have a fly, you can save weight by usingfly the old ones as a pattern and sew a fly new 1.3 oz silicone coated nylon.
You can save weight by 45 tent stakes titanium. The 6 "Titan stakes are just 0.2 ounces per.
Save 46 weight packing bags at home. A couple of rubber bands around the tent is lighter than the stock market. Put rubber bands around the titanium inserts and tied them to the poles to maintain the operations of poking holes.
47 In some arid regions, you may be able to use a sleeping-bagor sleeping bag cover as the only refuge.
48 If you need a protection fault alone exceed the pop-up Biviers error only 6.5 ounces.
49 For an even easier for error, one square meter of no-see-mosquito weighs less than one ounce
50 Simple, easy, you can schedule your weight housing, reduced by a pound or less.
51 If you use a campfire, or poncho towel / camp, you might want to have a mosquito net head to keep insects away. Of course, these can be used during the day, too. Theirweigh only 0.6 ounces
Some 52 floor of a double advantage, doubling as a poncho, too.
53 Creative can tie rope from a tree or save it with a stick available with a couple of tents and tarpaulins, the whole weight of the poles.
54 The lighter the carpet, is that you take. Be careful when you set the tent so you do not need a towel right.
55 If you have a ground cloth, use one that one is as light as possible. Fabric ultra-thin 99-cent plastic painter of lightA one-way option. Some people like Tyvek. Consider the use of 1.3 oz silicone coated nylon for your towel.
56 If you use a cloth wires, make sure to cut out a couple of inches shorter than the tent. If the tent is bigger, you can take the rain and funnel side below.
57 Consider hammock camping. Hammocks can be as light as about 2 pounds, and there are some great benefits like the ability to set up on uneven ground.
58 If you have a tent with a fly, you canmay be able to configure it with the poles and fly only, especially in late summer, when there are fewer mosquitoes.
59 It can effectively use tent without power options, if the insects repelling permethrin your tent.
60 Shake the water out of the tent before packing in a damp morning. You can drain the moisture, while the tent on a rock or a tree.
Clothing
61 In the long term weather forecasts from the Internet cuts out one ounce package. With dry weather,some of the rain gear out of the house. When it's hot you can leave some 'isolation at home.
62 oz can by some last-minute decisions on whether to shave things like wearing rain pants. If the weather conditions look good, you can leave items in the car.
63 If the weather is warm enough, as some hikers, rain pants leave home anyway. The legs get wet, but will not be trapped in sweat pants rain.
64 The pants can easily stimulateopen 4 ounces, if you "chaps" that cover the legs, but in the middle.
65. Rain gear can weigh less than 10 ounces for the top and bottom, if you use the lightest and easiest. We already have a combination poncho / tent said, if you have a piece of material that will serve as a shelter and rain gear.
66 One of the best rules of lightweight clothing "non-repeating." If you are a pair of pants, running shorts and / or rain gear is enough to be assured.
67 A veryLight short-sleeved shirt and a long-sleeved shirt should be sufficient.
68 Avoid cotton. It is not so quick to dry, so it might be dangerous. And even if it is not dangerous, it becomes more difficult when it is wet because the weight of the water is not as fast as other fabrics to dry.
69 very light plastic, and silk can make them heavier, bulkier batteries at home. A couple of layers of silk in the rain gear is enough for hiking in summer. The total is less than 6 ounces per 2T-shirts.
70 Never wear jeans. They weigh about 1 pound ½ and does not dry well. Pants in lightweight nylon outer weigh less than 8 ounces.
71 If you need more isolation, there are ultra-lightweight duvet jacket, which weighs less than eight ounces, about the weight of a T-shirt.
72 You can get a lot of weight running shorts that about three ounces instead of shorts to weigh heavy shop.
73 leather belt can be very difficult. Looking for a lightweight belt. AAccessories lightweight nylon strap with a quick release works well.
74 By the silk, the weight and volume to halve your underwear.
75 A lightweight knit (lightweight hat or cap) weighs less than one ounce and 'nice to sleep for more heat during the day or while driving.
76 A Hat Full of protection of the storm, which weighs in silicone-coated nylon just 1.2 ounces.
77 A baseball cap made of ripstop lighter styleNylon for sun protection may weigh less than a gram.
78 A painter's cap will be cheap, lightweight protection against the sun. They weigh about 1.3 ounces.
79 If the hat is too hot for you, use a viewer for more fresh and bright. Visors are very different in weight, to use a digital scale, the easiest to find.
80 Gloves lightweight, polypropylene, weighing one ounce will give you some heat.
81 You can use the extra socks as gloves for extra warmth or lightGloves.
82 Plastic bags or paper that can be used to keep your feet warm at night be used to dry hands.
83 Socks, avoid warm, comfortable, and the bubbles are of crucial importance. Try not to go too thin and light, if you tend blisters. But come to many popular styles at different heights. Thus, a sock is shorter and lighter can perform the same function.
84 One of the best ways to make clothes to save weight is to use running shoes instead of hiking boots.The old adage of a pound up like 5 pounds in a backpack is true. Raise your shoes at every step, so why not pick up something light and comfortable?
85 Laces that come with running shoes are often too long. They capture the small branches along the path. You could also clean it, and save weight. Burn the ends so as not to reveal.
Kitchen
86 Keep your cooking appliances with a light water heater alone. You can have more than half ofWeight of the kitchen together, looking for the pot and frying pan at home. The ¾-liter kettle weighs under 5 ounces.
87 With titanium, you can weigh the kettle less than 4 oz.
The 88 stainless steel is heavy. Avoid it. Non-stick coatings to a kettle harder than one without. Decide if the weight is non-stick surface for you is worth it.
89 For your cup, use the type of plastic that have measurement marks inside. They are four times lighter than a SierraCup.
90 Try to make a lexan spoon only. You probably do not need a fork. Cutting food you can use the knife in his pocket. Files in excess of the weight from the handle of the spoon. Have fun, a fanatic. Drill a few holes in the handle.
91 Some hikers like a queen long spoon of milk, because they can achieve in a foil pouch and bag all the way closed. Be prepared to use a series of immediate measures chopsticks, spoon breaks. Some people prefer to attack anyway.
Blackening under 92The kettle to cook faster and get fuel. If your boiler does not do this, of course, use heat resistant paint, as they use to paint the grills and wood stoves.
93 Keep the lid on the pot. You can save weight by using less fuel.
94 Use a windshield, so you carry less fuel and save. You can probably use something that is already in your package so there is no weight is added. Or use something very light like a sheet of aluminum.
95 Use your digital scale that they knowWeight of a full and empty cans, if you use butane / propane. It 'amazing how much a can not. You can learn when to let a complete 7-oz cans at home.
96 For an abrasive pad, keep it simple and cut on a very small size. Or better yet, do not take one at all. They tend to be bacteria magnets. Use goatee - the things that is attached to tree bark. Or you can use pine cones or sand.
97 may need a towel to grab your hot water heater. Keep a small parta camper rayon towel for the kitchen and one for the body.
98 The lighter, thinner towels are found in grocery stores are still lighter than a towel campers rayon. These work well on your body, because they are so easy to wash the dishes.
99 There are two main types of lightweight stoves. Titanium stoves, butane / propane fuel can be as easy as two ounces and a half. Their small fuel tank is 7 ounces. Or you can choose a drink can denature style stove, burnsAlcohol. This is easier than 2 ounces. The fuel is readily available and can be transported in very light.
100 Fiberglass is often used as a wicking agent in the beverage can stoves. The thin glass fiber in the slide can be used in boilers or stoves to keep warm and can be used to keep heat in the kettle.
The first hundred and lighter than water container is a plastic bottle of soda, water or Gatorade. Of course, you must remove the label that heavy.
