Adventure Alan's Ultralight Backpacking
Explains the advantages of ultralight backpacking, covers safety issues, and tells how to get started. Includes equipment lists and trip reports.
Kenneth Knight's Ultralight Backpacking Site
Discusses the philosophy, how to get started, shelters, sleeping bags, backpacks, and clothing. (See menu at top.)
Ultralight Backpacking Checklist
Provides a checklist of equipment and clothing for ultralight backpacking.
Ultralight Backpacking
Explains how to get started and gives brief bios of ultralight backpacking trailblazers: Earl Shaffer, Grandma Gatewood, and Ray Jardine. Includes equipment reviews.
Michael's Ultralight Backpacking Page
* This site is currently unavailable.
Information on clothing, backpacking stoves, and bivy sacks. Includes a discussion of ultralight philosophy, trip reports, an ultralight backpacking checklist, and tips on how to deal with blister and bad knees.
The Ultralight Backpacking Site
Covers lightweight backpacks, tents, sleeping bags, clothes, and other ultralight gear. Includes backpacking tips and stories about hiking adventures.
Southwest Ultralight Backpacking
Describes the benefits of, principles of, and techniques for ultralight backpacking. Covers gear, food, cooking, safety, and ethics. Also provides checklists and backpacking tips.
Eric's Ultralight Backpacking Page
Gives suggestion on equipment such as backpacks, shelters, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, cookware, water containers and filters, clothes, footwear, and trekking poles. Includes gear list plus tips and techniques for ultralight backpacking.
Ultralightweight Backpacking -- How To Do It
Discusses food, water, boots, sleeping bags, clothing, backpacks, and other items. From 1990. Here's some updated information for 2002.
Backpacking Light
A magazine for lightweight hiker and backpacker. Provides articles, gear reviews, gear checklists, and a forum.
The Lightweight Backpacker
Describes the ultralight philosophy and provides a large collection of tips for reducing backpack weight. Also includes multiple gear checklists, articles, and a forum.
TrailQuest Ultralight Backpacking Page
Covers the ultralight philosophy, packs, shelters, sleep systems, clothing, cook systems, water, hygiene, footwear, socks, and medical/emergency/repair items. Includes a ultralight gear list.
Interview with Ray Jardine
From The Great Outdoors magazine, 1995.