Ultralight Backpacking

Find the best ultralight backpacking gear for your next adventure from ultralight tents, ultralight sleeping bags, and more.

We tested and reviewed the best ultralight backpacking gear to round out your kit and cut ounces, or even pounds, from your kit.

Most 40-60L ultralight backpacks now weigh between 2 and 3 pounds. The ones we list below all have frames or frame stays.

The best ultralight backpacking packs for thru-hiking. Lightweight and minimalist backpacking requirements, cuben fiber, dyneema, nylon material. Hyperlight, Gossamer, Osprey, Granite, SWD, MLD, ZPacks, Katabatic, ULA and more. A true ultralight backpacking pack will weigh under 2 lbs and should not weigh over 3 lbs.

The number of ultralight double-wall backpacking tents with a trail weight of 3 lbs or less that are available today has grown significantly

An ultralight backpacking gear list and FAQs for the gram counters. 5 pound full comfort base weight and a 9.5 pound consumables for thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, Continental Divide Trail. Regular backpacking, lightweight backpacking, ultralight backpacking, hyperlight backpacking compared.

I’m hoping to be doing a lot more outdoors in 2021 than I managed to do in 2020 and I’m excited to start trying out gear. To start the year off, my pack looks a lot like it did at the end of 2020, but I’ve made a few small changes (most notably, my cooking […]

We tested the best backpacking pillows on the market today according to price, weight, comfort, and packability. Read on to see how they performed, which is best for you, and get some valuable buying advice.

Gear guide to the best ultralight backpacking tents. Ultralight 1 person, 2 person, nylon, cuben fiber, dyneema, freestanding and non-freestanding tents tested by Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail thru-hikers. Your backpacking tent is one of the biggest items in your pack and a big opportunity to save weight.

A guide to pee bottles for backpacking. In the cold, snow or rain storm, you really don't want to go outside your tent for any reason. Hence the need for a pee bottle, because we all have to use the restroom sometimes. Sometimes it is just more convenient to stay in your tent. #peebottles #ultralight #backpacking #thruhiking