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7.8 lb Ultralight Backpacking Gear List | 2023 Optimal Setup
I’ve spent years assembling the best ultralight backpacking gear setup for my multi-day hikes into the wilderness, and I’d love to share my 2023 list with you. Because the gear you bring along backpacking will make or break your trip. I’ve learned this lesson the hard way. On a 2014 attempted trek of the […]
Backpacking Food: Meal Plan Tips & Ideas for Your 2023 Hikes
Past attempts at organizing my backpacking food and creating meal plans were always a bit reckless for me. My old approach usually involved jamming a hodgepodge assemblage of hiking food into my over-stuffed bag and hoping for the best. Ensuing days on the trail were spent hiking around dull and nutritionless food, falling short […]
Laugavegur Trail: 7 Things Iceland’s Insane Weather Taught Me
On July 7th of 2014, I embarked on Iceland’s most famous multi-day trek, the Laugavegur Trail – four days of waterfalls, glaciers, and harsh, unearthly landscape. In short, I was unprepared and my hike was an unmitigated disaster. My situation went from bad to worse in a hurry, and I was left scrambling to […]