Lightweight backpacking gear

This is my complete list of backpacking gear with info about what I like about each item, updated for 2025.

The best ultralight backpacking gear from Decathlon. If you're looking for tested and affordable lightweight gear, Decathlon is worth a look.

To show you how backpacking gear lists can evolve, here's a list of items I stopped using as my preferences, skills, and experience level changed.

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A complete guide to to all the best ultralight tarps for backpacking. If you are a beginner hiking or experienced, this lightweight hiking gear guide will help you with your choice.

This post covers my 5 day Lightweight Backpacking Gear list for a Spring trip to the Grand Canyon. List includes weights in ounces, weather considerations and links to gear.

For those just starting out in hiking and backpacking, this review will help you stretch your dollar and find excellent, lightweight gear at a great price.

Some of the best moments in my life happened when I had the very least. Whenever I stress about money or work, I remind myself of that. When I was spending a majority of each year backpacking, hitchhiking, or cycling, people would ask me if I was a self-made millionaire or a trust-fund baby. I’d laugh it off and assure them that living like a hobo was dirt cheap. I used to have a motto back then: “A dollar saved is a mile hiked.” I’d see something I wanted to buy and think, "is it worth 200…

Gear list, check. Find out what AT Blogger Natalie is hitting the trail with for her March start date.

Choosing gear for a thru-hike or even for weekend backpacking can be daunting. So what gear should you buy on the cheap and where should you splurge for the best? Let this list be your guide to getting the best bang for your buck. Where to Save 1) Cookware Your cookware will take a beating on a thru-hike. You’ll probably burn something, possibly dent the titanium, and you might even lose a handle somewhere. I highly recommend going with something light but affordable. ...