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Lighten The Load With Lightweight Camping Gear

If you are planning on taking a camping trip, carrying it all in the trunk of your car or hiking in, that is hiking for several days, it is a good bet that you are thinking about the weight and are looking for some small lightweight camping gear. This is probably a good idea since spending several days with an overweight pack can be annoying, if not painful.

While you are out pricing the latest lightweight camping gear and realizing it is going to cost you a fortune to replace everything in your pack, instead of thinking about replacing all of it, consider replacing only what you absolutely need to replace. Get rid of that big cook stove (continued below…)
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that weighs about 20 pounds. Get a small lightweight unit or perhaps building a small fire and using a metal grate that weighs mere ounces and takes up almost no room..

More than anything else, your budget is going to dictate what lightweight camping gear you buy and what older, heavier items you leave in your pack. Use your common sense, as well as previous experiences, as this will tell you what you carried last time without using and what you can leave behind.

Start By Weeding Out The Weight

For most of us, a 30-pound pack will be the maximum you want to lug on your hike, but even that may be more than necessary. For exceptionally long backpacking trips, lightweight camping gear will be almost a necessity as the further you go, the heavier the pack will begin to feel. Carry only items that are necessary, based on your experience, and weigh them, looking at alternatives that may weigh less.

There are water bottles with self-contained filtration systems that can reduce the weight of your lightweight camping gear and take only the first aid supplies you believe you will need. A first aid kit may be considered by some to be a non-essential item, as is a water filtration system, but you have to ask yourself if you are willing to take the chance of taking your hike without them.

It is not abnormal for people taking their first camping trip to take everything they own regardless of the weight. It’s only after they return they look through their equipment and start to realize they did not need all they carried.

 


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