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The Crazy Creek Hex 2.0 Original Chair is a lightweight, portable camping and backpacking chair. It weighs 21.6 ounces and rolls up to a 4-5” diameter tube that is 16.5” long. Due to its weight, it falls into the luxury item category in my backpacking gear arsenal and is not something I bring on every trip. However, when I know …

The Tarptent Notch Li is a single-person, double-wall ultralight tent made with Dyneema (DCF) weighing only 20 oz. A dual apex shelter, it has two doors, two vestibules, and requires two trekking poles to pitch. It’s a great shelter for exposed terrain and dense forest, with excellent stability in higher windspeeds and a small footprint to fit into small tent …

The lightest weight ultralight backpacking shelters are tarps, including flat tarps and catenary curve tarps, sometimes called “flat cut” or “cat cut” tarps for short. They both have their pros and cons as we discuss below, but if your goal is wilderness immersion and carrying minimal gear weight, they are the ticket. What is a Flat Tarp? A flat tarp …

The Helinox Ground Chair is a lightweight, collapsible chair for backpacking and camping. While it sits lower to the ground than other lightweight camping chairs, its square base and hubs spread out the load more evenly, so it’s less likely to sink into sand, soft ground, or wet ground, which is a huge problem with other camping chairs designed for …