Hyperlight Backpacking Gear List

Go fast and light with our ultralight backpacks and get more from your hiking pack.

Hyperlight backpacking gear list.

Hike climb packraft and bike more efficiently with less fatigue and pain using gear that is so light and simple it becomes an afterthought. Made in the usa ultralight backpacks shelters tarps and accessories built for adventure with waterproof durable dyneema composite fabrics formerly cuben fiber. It s possible for all your backpacking gear to weigh less than 10 pounds excluding food water and the clothes you re wearing but accomplishing it requires some notable sacrifices and expense. Take a step up in size to the 3400 series 55l for thru hikes or extended backpacking trips or go straight to the 4400 series 70l for 10 day self supported epics.

5 pound full comfort base weight and a 9 5 pound consumables for thru hiking the appalachian trail pacific crest trail continental divide trail. Substitute a two pound pack like the hyperlight mountain gear southwest 2400 or 3400 pack ula ohm 2 0 or circuit pack or from rei. As a general rule our 2400 series 40l backpacking packs check the super ultralight or quick weekend mission boxes. There s ultralight backpacking and then there s hyperlight.

The two modifications i often make to the 5 pound practical light backpacking gear list are. Regular backpacking lightweight backpacking ultralight backpacking hyperlight backpacking compared.