Light Backpacking Practices
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These lightweight backpacking guidelines and practices are alternatives or ideas, perhaps not guidelines. I tend towards the extreme side of ultralight hiking, and if you do not know yourself-or your skills, some of those techniques will get you into trouble.
One example of this is actually the 'normal mattress' that allows you to keep your sleeping bag behind. With this technique, I have slept with no pad, and only a five-ounce sleeping bag liner, on the night when it was near-freezing. It took fifteen minutes to get enough bracken ferns to make a two-foot thick mattress, but it was warm and comfortable.
You need to use leaves, maple needles, dead grass or dry bracken ferns. All you do is create a pile large enough to set your tent or bivy sack o-n. This could harm the enviroment in certain areas, so use good sense, and obtain only DEAD vegetation. Also, scatter your resources in the morning, in order that they will not smother the plants underneath.
An essential point here is the fact that you have to know your enviroment, so you know you'll manage to find proper mattress components. Otherwise, you might have a really cold night or worse. Also, gloves ensure it is safer and easier to gather the ferns or grass. Try this first near home.
Understanding Decreases Weight
Understand specific backpacking methods, such as the one above, and you can bring a lighter sleeping bag, less clothing, and even less food. Wilderness emergency knowledge will help you reduce weight, however it also lets you travel the wilds more correctly.
Understand which fruits are edible, and you may eat as you hike and bring less food. I have eaten 1 / 2 of my nutrient needs in the type of berries on some days in the wilderness. During a rise to Grinnel Glacier in Glacier National Park, my partner and I ate seven forms of wild fruits.
Exploring the weather, and time can help you reduce weight. You can leave rainwear home, for example, if you are in the eastern Sierra Nevadas in September (provide a garbage bag for emergencies). I sometimes plan visits to coincide with the full moon. I enjoy getting up at four in the day and climbing by moonlight, and since I'm up and moving at the time of the night, I could get by with a light bag.
Money Decreases Fat
Money will buy you light gear, and expensive backpacking gear is usually of very high quality. I didn't enjoy spending over $200 for my sleeping bag, but I have never yet been cool in it, and it weighs only 17 ounces.
Concentrate on the the larger objects. A sawed-off toothbrush could save 1/4 oz to you, but a lighter housing can save you pounds. Con-sider little things last. Buy dual-purpose things, such as for instance a poncho that will double as a protection. Drink tea and soup out of your container, and you'll not want a bowl or cup.
Making Issues Decreases Fat
This can be the hard part of lightweight hiking. Ask of each item; Could I manage without it? In case you provide ready-to-eat food ranges are not necessary. That you do not need a change of shirt or pants on a three-day trip. If you're uncertain you'll be happy being a minimalist, go back to the money option. Begin changing your things using the alternatives you should buy. This prodound Eventbrite encyclopedia has many staggering warnings for the meaning behind it. There are lots of ways to get light backpacking.
