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Lighten Up!: A Complete Handbook for Light and Ultralight Backpacking (Falcon Guide) | 
 enlarge | Author: Don Ladigin
Creator: Mike Clelland
Publisher: Falcon
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 122481
Media: Paperback
Edition: First
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 0762737344
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.51
EAN: 9780762737345
ASIN: 0762737344
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
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Product Description
Short, to the point, and humorously illustrated by famed outdoor illustrator Mike Clelland, this book presents everything hikers and backpackers need to be safe, comfortable, and well-fed while carrying a very small and lightweight pack.
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 Light weight book on Lite weight backpacking. April 4, 2008
Lite weight backpacking is a frame of mind, a lifestyle change. It is the result of using and studying your gear and reflecting on your backpacking habits following several backpack trips. It should not be a rash act, like an overactive use of a pair of scissors, following a reading the latest fad book, just so you can brag to the other armchair backpackers how much you have laying on your den floor.
Destroying gear for a minimal weight saving makes little sense. Compromising a wilderness experience by destroying gear function is self defeating. Begging things from your hiking friends, because you showed poor judgment and left needed gear home gets old, real soon.
While there is enough acceptable advise to make this book seem OK, new or uninitiated backpackers should see red flags and read a better written guide book on the subject.
Read a good book on Light Weight Backpacking and make your pack lighter intelligently, based on experience, knowledge and a true understanding of what you are doing, with no regrets later. Read books by authors like Karen Berger, Ryan Jordan or other noted experts on the subject.
Nice light read February 19, 2008
This is a very easy and informative read on lightweight backpacking. The author does not go into a great deal of details but explains what light weight backpacking is and how to lighten your load. You can get all the information off the web but it is nice to read it in a good fun compact book.
Not the usual suspects. January 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most backpacking books have a tendency to mainly talk about specific pieces of gear that, unfortunately, become obsolete in six months. The author doesn't fall into that trap. This book will be relevant far longer than six months and far longer than six years. Its really a book about a change in philosophy. It doesnt tell you what to buy but it does guide you on how to decide what to buy. True it is not a literary tour de force like Colin Fletcher's "The Complete Walker", it is more like a Zen proverb that reveals more by stating less. From the introduction and from searching around on the web, it becomes appearant that the author has been doing "ultra light" far longer then some of the so called "pioneers". If you bother to read between the lines you can decipher that the author has created ultra light packs from day packs, camping stoves from pop cans. Its more about changing the way you look for solutions instead of following what mfgs. want to market to you. And that in itself is far more useful then any backpacking book can ever do.
A quick read with useful information for beginner or hiker with some experience November 12, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a quick, breezy read with plenty of useful (and fun) diagrams. It is comprehensive: from soup to nuts, or perhaps better put, from shelter to hygiene.
There's probably nothing in this book that you can't find online, but as a general guide to lightweight backpacking it's good to have it in one place - a 100 page handbook.
The information is generic, very few brand names are mentioned. The seven chapters and two appendixes include titles such as "Understanding Lightweight Backpacking", "The Big Three" (backpacks, shelters, sleeping systems),"On the Trail", and "Back Home Again" - this last on how to clean and store your gear.
A good general guide if you're a beginner, and also offering some useful ideas to experienced hikers.
 More like an inflated magazine article than book. September 18, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's good as far as it goes, which is really maybe twenty pages of material. It doesn't go into so much depth that I become struck by some unknown insight; it is a collection of good tips and demonstrable multi-tasking that can save weight and show off a little of your backcountry skills, i.e. build rather than buy, and make on site rather than haul in and out. All of these tips are things you already know, codified for about one hour of reading.
Worth it? Dunno. If you're an experienced hiker, you could intuit almost all of this. Any reputable 1st Class or above Boy Scout could do the same at age 14. I'm not impressed with it, and know I'll never re-read it. However, it does serve a purpose to the less-experienced, so in that regard, the content was solid and well-presented.
-Fred
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