Your Guide to Hiking, Backpacking and Camping in the Pacific Northwest

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.

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.

Backpacking shouldn't be synonymous with pain and suffering. Avoid these backpacking mistakes so you can be prepared, feel confident backpacking!

My backpacking gear list spreadsheet is a checklist of essentials & extras! Backpack weight calculator, 2022 trip planner, & meal planner.

Through my years of backcountry trips I dialed in an easy 3 day backpacking food list. Checkout my lightweight, tasty and filling list for your next trip.

After deciding to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail this spring, I unlocked a new obsession: backpacking gear. Through much fixation, research, and mini shakedown hikes, I’ve got the gear I need (or at least think I do at the moment.) Here’s a summary of everything I’ve accumulated since May 2022 (when I graduated college and started my backpacking obsession.) A complete list of my gear can be found here. Sleep System/Pack ULA Circuit Originally, I started out with the Osprey Aura but decided…

Pack right for the trail

Here’s my tried and tested true ways for the 10 ultralight essentials of backpacking gear and how to pack light that you will ever need on your outdoor expedition.