Real Gear for Real Trails
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Camp food gets a bad reputation — and a lot of that reputation comes from bad camp cookware. The wrong pot boils water unevenly, takes forever to heat, weighs a pound before you’ve added anything to it, and nests so […]
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Most hikers spend serious time thinking about what goes in their pack and almost no time thinking about what happens when they stop moving. After 10 miles of trail, arriving at camp with nowhere to sit except the ground is […]
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Most hikers don’t think about gaiters until the first time a pebble works its way into their shoe on a long descent and spends the next three miles grinding against their heel. Or until they step through a muddy creek […]
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Running out of water on the trail is a miserable experience. Running out of water and having no way to treat the stream running beside you is a dangerous one. A personal water filter is one of the lightest, most […]
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases Summer is the most popular season for hiking — and also the season where clothing mistakes cause the most problems. Underestimating afternoon thunderstorms, wearing cotton that stays wet for hours, skipping sun protection on an exposed ridgeline, or overdressing on a hot climb are all common […]
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Most hikers spend serious money on boots and overlook the socks. It’s understandable — socks seem like a commodity. But the sock is the interface between your foot and your boot, and it determines whether that $200 pair of boots […]
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Most hiking watch guides are written from a male perspective — and it shows. The watches recommended are often oversized, heavy, and loaded with features that serious ultramarathon athletes need but most female hikers simply don’t. When a woman asks […]
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. A good hiking watch does things your phone can’t. It tracks your location when your phone battery is dead. It tells you your altitude when you’re navigating by topo map. It warns you when the barometric pressure drops — which […]
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Cold hands ruin hikes faster than almost anything else. It starts as mild discomfort in the fingers, then the grip on your trekking poles gets sloppy, then you’re stopping every ten minutes to jam your hands under your arms — […]
As an Amazon Associate, HikingBackpackPro.com earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. There’s a lesson that almost every backpacker learns the hard way at least once: the sleeping pad matters as much as the sleeping bag. You can spend $400 on a premium down bag and still shiver through the night if […]