Stories about Ultralight Outfitters gear

and ultralight backpacking

Ultralight Outfitters invites you to share your stories and experiences! Vist click the story links below. If you have a story to add, just log into the Wiki (it's easy) and then then add your adventures with ultralight backpacking and Ultralight Outfitters products.

Newcomer Stories - Converts to Ultralight Backpacking

Never Going Back to a Heavy Backpack - Rob Interviews Dean, an Experienced Backpacker

From Car Camping to Ultralight Backpacking Rob Interviews a First-Time Backpacker

Beer Can Cooking With Kids Beer Can Cooking is More Fun for Everyone

New Campers Learn Backpacking Skills Everyone Loves Using the "Beer Can" Cook Pot & Stove

Kids and Ultralight Backpacking

High School Senior Interviews Our Founder - Brice Wozniak, a young ultralight backpacker, talks with Rob Anue.

A Teen's Experience Beer Can Cooking! - An interview with Tenaya!

One of the Hearty Few! - Josh, an 11-year-old Backpacker

Endorsements

Everest climber, Eco racer and Coach, Laurie Bagley. http://www.lauriebagley.com

Comments from the website

On Jul 2, 2007 Ryan Arndt wrote:

I just got back from our Lost Coast hiking trip... we had a great time! The weather was good - a little raining the first evening, but then great for the next two days.

I tried the backpack, poncho/tent, and stove. They all performed very well. I used the poncho as an open lean-to the first night and then just slept out the second night. I could have gotten it a little tighter, but it did its job well. I never needed to use it as rain gear. The stove was great, very

easy to use. The backpack worked out well. I am hooked on the bottom pockets! I started out with about 20-25lbs in the pack and it felt good the whole time. We had to use bear canisters that added about 3 lbs and were a bit awkward to pack, but it still worked well.

Hello, my name is Pascal. I am from Switzerland. In 2005 I walked from Switzerland to Istanbul, going through Italy and Greece. I did about 3000 miles on my legs...It was a kind of pilgrimage seeking the roots of Europe.

I intented to have a backpack as light as possible, as I was to travel for months. In the beginning, my packpack weighted more than 50 lb !!! I suffered a lot in the beginning and but went through. At the end I had only about 25 lb left, which were easy to carry...

Your website is exactly what I should have known about before doing this journey... If it possible to reduce 25 lb to about the half of it, as your website says, I want to do it !! I thank you very much for your website, which I will recommand (I just read the whole site through...).

This seeking for lightness has become, since my travel, a philosophy of life, to use what is simple, necessary, multifunctional and light !

With many regards, Pascal Haemmerli