Ultralight backpacking
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Ultralight backpacking is a style of lightweight backpacking that emphasizes carrying the lightest and least amount of gear. While no technical standards exist, some hikers consider "ultralight" to me
A bivouac (using a bivy sack) in winter at Benediktenwand, Germany
Poncho shelter
Many ultralight backpackers use a non-freestanding system where the trekking pole serves as the structure for the tent.
A common variety of trail mix made out of peanuts, raisins, and candy coated chocolate, around 4.8 kcal/gram
Backpack
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A backpack, also called knapsack, schoolbag, rucksack, pack, booksack, bookbag, haversack, packsack, or backsack, is in its simplest frameless form, a fabric sack carried on one’s back and secured wit
A 30 L top and bottom-loading hiking backpack
A 12 L front-loading photography backpack
A miner carrying a backpack during the California Gold Rush
Swiss army integrated bearer (internal) frame backpack (c. 1960; front)