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BackpackingLight.com provides membership, publications, education, gear, and community, to help you enjoy the backcountry more - with less.

Membership

Become a Member: Subscribe Now!

Backpacking Light, at its core, is a community of like-minded members with a common passion: traveling light in the backcountry - and life. Becoming a member is cheap ($24.95/year) and easy (click here), and it gives you access to all premium content (more than one million words of articles and counting as of October 2008), and discounts on all gear in the gear shop.

Become an Author: Submit Your Story Proposal Now!

Backpacking Light is written and edited by the lightweight backpacking community, and especially, its members. Learn how to become a contributor and earn some cash or gear for your efforts!

Publications & Education

At our core, we are a publishing company, providing authoritative information about lightweight backpacking Trends, Gear, Techniques, Technologies, People, and Places.

Gear Shop

Backpacking Light provides one of the most unique retail stores where you can purchase lightweight gear.

In our shop, you'll find gear from some of your favorite brands in our shop, as well as gear that we've manufactured ourselves. Online subscribers receive across-the-board discounts on all gear in our shop.

Community

BackpackingLight.com hosts one of the Internet's most active communities of lightweight backpackers in the world.

Participate in our forums to share your experiences and insights into lightweight backpacking gear, technique, philosophy, trips, photos, and more.

Contribute your own gear reviews to share your honest opinions about the gear that you use, so others may benefit.

Or, be a part of the Internet's fasting growing public database about lightweight backpacking information: The BPL Wiki.

Tools

There are a number of tools here at BackpackingLight.com to help you navigate the site and keep your account up to date: