A benefit of paid membership sites like BackpackingLight.com is they keep most of the spammy riff raff away, leaving room for only highly-enthusiastic, and (mostly) intelligent discourse.

Fortunately for us, there’s portion of BPL that’s both FREE of charge AND riff raff: The Community Section.

There you will find over 100 PDF-downloadable ultalight backpacking lists compiled by members of the community. Then, through the magic of crowdsourcing, the lists are ranked and discussed on the forums so that you can easily identify which lists are credible enough to assist in your own pack planning.

Head on over to BackpackingLight to check them out!

It’s hard to find a good hiking podcast.  There’s some quality content out there, but most of it is either out of date or very rarely updated.  To save you some time, here are 5 relevant, high quality, info-packed, entertaining hiking podcasts for your listening and viewing pleasure.  I know there’s more out there, so if you’d like to rep your favorite hiking podcast, do so in the comments below!

(Note:  This list is hiking/backpacking-specific.  There are a few awesome mountaineering podcasts out there which I will feature in a future post)