Lightweight camping

In the last few years, we have been ever involved in a struggle to obtain the smallest, lightest camping equipment on the market. Okay, within the range of a small budget. This week I’d like to showcase some of this cool equipment.

I remember thinking at least once, that we probably spent too much money on stuff we’d use too little. I take back that thought now. If you remember a couple months ago we had a bad ice storm here in Missouri. And if there hadn’t been camping equipment stashed in attics and garages, I believe there may have been WWIII here in Springfield. I used this stuff that entire week, and it was awesome!

I heard people complaining, “I couldn’t even make coffee this morning” or “I can’t LIVE without electricity” True, true I thought, if you don’t have camping equipment! So even if you hate sleeping under the stars, keep this stuff in mind for your next Y2K stash, ice storm or just for emergency gear. By the way, you don’t have to go light for an emergency stash, but its cooler if you do…

The first few things I’d like to show you are actually my brother’s. (Its nice when you team up with other lightweight campers, then you get to reap the benefits of THEIR hard spent money)

First and most cool, is the red origami bowl in the lower center of the picture. These bowls lay flat like a piece of paper in your backpack, and then fold into all sorts of necessary bowls, cups, and plates. When your finished, just make it flat again, and wipe it off. Its easy to clean and small to carry.

The most obvious necessity is the Nalgene bottle. Now, of course you don’t have to use the Nalgene brand, but its important to get one with the standard size wide lip so you can attach water filter devices and other standard accesories. These are “nearly” unbreakable, can hole large amounts of water, and even come in cool colors!

Is this starting to sound like a sales pitch? Sorry. Ugh Umm.

The grey pan its Nick’s Titanium lightweight pan. It is seriously the lightest pan I’ve ever felt. So you can carry pans and not add a ton to your pack weight.

You can’t see the stove itself, but you can see a small clear plastic container by the red nalgene bottle. That is the case for the stove. Yeah, I’m not kidding. It folds up REALLY small, but still manages to get plenty hot and even be somewhat wind resistant. The yellow fuel canister that its sitting on even come in smaller sizes. They will last for at least a weekend trip if you use it for every meal, but I normally only use it for coffee, so it lasts me a long time.

And last but not least, the most important item in the picture is the log Nick is sitting on. In the summertime, you don’t necessarily need a seat, but come winter you will. I’ll show you that stuff later on. ~Its LOG, its LOG, its better than bad, its GOOD!~

More to come this week: the Jetboil, Marmot Tea-zer, Thermarest mats/chairs, sporks, fleece socks, and if it stops raining, a lightweight tent.

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