BACKPACKING RESOURCES
The Lightweight Backpacker - This website is not about eating bugs and roots, sleeping under leaves, or hiking barefoot. These pages are dedicated to all the backcountry neurotics who count ounces and grams in a never-ending quest for the smallest, lightest, highest-quality gear available (or, alas, affordable).
Leave No Trace - The Leave No Trace is a nationally recognized educational program that promotes land stewardship, minimum-impact skills, and wilderness ethics. A basic tenet of the Leave No Trace program is that education is more effective than regulation in modifying backcountry visitors' behavior, and therefore education is key to preserving the ecological health of our wildlands.
BackpackingLight.com - This journal of lightweight backcountry travel provides useful and trustworthy information. They promote a lightweight philosophy of backcountry travel that challenges readers to explore the limits of their body, mind, heart, and soul.
Out Your Backdoor - The back porch of media, OYB is about modern folk culture. They give you the inside skinny on things people really do. It's fresh, homemade stuff for those who've been there, done that.
Hiker Central - Backpacking resources for the serious backpacker.
Peak to Peak Trail and Wilderness Links - The mission of Peak to Peak is to provide visitors with a meta-site including links to other Web sites containing original content which is informative and useful to the online hiking, trail, walking, and Wilderness communities.
The Backpacker - This site has some great articles, but they have unfortunately decided to implement banner advetrisements and those extremely annoying pop-up windows.
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