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Lighten Up! A Complete Handbook for Light and Ultralight Backpacking

    Lighten Up! A Complete Handbook for Light and Ultralight Backpacking

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    Lighten Up shows you how to pack light without sacrificing the essentials or your safety.

    • Author: Don Ladigin; illustrations by Mike Clelland
    • Softcover; 99 pages; black-and-white illustrations
    • The Globe Pequot Press; copyright 2005
    • Features solid advise and trail-tested tricks plus more than 150 humorous and helpful illustrations

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        Oct

        6

        2010

         
        5.0

        A++++ great intro to backpacking

        By northTXoutdoorsman

        from Commerce, TX

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            Comments about Lighten Up! A Complete Handbook for Light and Ultralight Backpacking:

            Great book, new to backpacking, or learning to pack light. A must have for anyone's collection of backpacking library books.

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            Sep

            8

            2010

             
            5.0

            Best ultralight book available at REI

            By johnch

            from Los Angeles, CA

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                Comments about Lighten Up! A Complete Handbook for Light and Ultralight Backpacking:

                I've used this book to start my ultralight aspect of backpacking, and this small book had a large wealth of information. The illustrations by Mike Clelland! are very helpful and informative.

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                27

                2009

                 
                5.0

                Amazing!

                By wyicked

                from Salem, OR

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                  Comments about Lighten Up! A Complete Handbook for Light and Ultralight Backpacking:

                  This book jump started my ultralight movement and has proved to be extremely useful. After reading a stack of other ultralight books (read: word intensive) I found this book to be refreshing due to its comical approach. But don't think it comes lacking; I found more information in here than all five of my other books COMBINED.

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