So you have decided to get away from the craziness and hit the back country! Awesome, I love hitting it as well. But what do you take? Maybe this is your first trip or your a beginner at this backpacking game. Maybe you have been on some trips and are just looking for some supplemental information on a different perspective. No matter how you made it here, thanks for reading and I hope you find the information useful. So lets get down too it! Backpack: I recommend a lightweig

The Platypus Plus Water Bottle is an example of USA made ingenuity. With Platypus making this Plus water Bottle flexible, if gives you the ability to have a container for water (34oz capacity) when you need it, but not take up space and weight (1.3oz when empty) in your pack when you do not. I was never into the whole flexible water bottle phenomenon until a while back when I was talking to a fellow hiker at a spring along the one trail I was on, and he told me what I did not

The Prana Bronson Pant is amazing. What the Prana Bronson Pant does is give you a little stretch, a gusseted crotch, DWR treatment and triple stitching construction! But you do pay for all that at around $70 per pair, which is very high. I got my Prana Bronson Pants for outdoor activities and have had them from the North East forests to the South West desert environment and these pants are turning into pants I just grab by default, and they should be at the price I paid. The

The MSR Holler, 3 person tent, is a decent tent with some short comings. The MSR Holler Tent is the tent that could be great, but is held back by a bad design when it comes to ventilation, or the lack of it. With there only being one band of mesh around three quarters of the way to the top, it really makes this tent unlivable during the summer, and when you present it with the challenge of limiting condensation it fails time and time again. We have guy'd out this MSR Holler T

The FireFly Stove by QiWiz is one of the best, considering it weighs only 2.55oz's! The FireFly Stove by QiWiz is constructed well, assembles quickly and is rather sturdy for such a lightweight piece of gear. The FireFly Stove by QiWiz has a stainless steel floor mesh, and comes with pot supports. The pot supports are the weak part off this stove, as other stove like the emberlit have mastered the perfect pot stands, but the FireFly Stove by QiWiz is in the business of making