Do you have to walk along poorly lit streets, rural lanes or areas with narrow or indeed no pavement where you’re very close to the traffic? Water. Don't carry excess water with you. Drink a lot when water is available and carry only the necessary amount in a water bottle depending on the hiking destination. Reducing equipment should not mean compromising on safety. So, learn wilderness and survival skills well so that you can also manage with lesser equipment. Don't bring anything 'just in case'. But don't leave your tent repair or sleeping pad patching tools at home to shave the weight.

A wooden mug. The wooden mug is certainly beautiful, but it weighs a lot. Cut the weight half by changing to a Kupilka mug. Cut the Kupilka weight half by switching to a plastic folding cup. The price comes down along with the weight! Built for serious adventures with lots of external attachment points with very durable construction But the really scary stats come from the Office of National Statistics’ report, ‘ Reported Road Casualties Great Britain: Pedestrian Fact Sheet 2021’:The smaller Arc’teryx Aerios 30 was chosen for our Outdoor 100 2021/22. Read our full Arc’teryx Aerios review. BUY NOW: ARCTERYX.COM But we also know that people get distracted and accidents happen. Anything you can do as a pedestrian to make yourself more visible and ensure you are seen, surely must be a good thing. You might think that living in a well lit residential area would make you safer than living in a small village with poor lighting. But 70% of pedestrian fatalities happen in urban areas.

It’s expensive, but dang, is this brand durable! In our testing, despite climbing, rolling, and unrolling the top closure hundreds of times, placing sharp objects in the main compartment, sitting on them in rafts, and getting brushed and harassed by thorny wilderness on miles-long treks, there was not a single hole or tear.

Tips for starting lightweight backpacking

Remember, the Nomatic Travel Bag is one of the best carry on bags for travellers as well. Well done, Nomatic, well done. Weigh your equipment. Open Excel or a similar free program. In the columns, write each piece of equipment you own on its own line. Weigh each piece of equipment and write down the weight in the columns. In Excel, it is easy to calculate how changing one piece of equipment for another (or removing it) affects the total weight. I also own a Nemo Hornet 1P tent that weighs only half of the MSR (and is also smaller), but I only use it in nice summer weather, as I don't think it is durable enough in harsh climates.