BushWhacking Resources

The Rucksack

The wilderness trippers portal. The RuckSack Web site is dedicated to Great Lakes-area wilderness trippers and expeditioners--Michigan Bush Rats--who enjoy remote, multiday backpacking, canyoneering, winter camping, and swift-water paddling trips.

Backpacking Light

A Trusted Source of Reliable Information About Lightweight Backpacking.

Ultralight Backpacker

Started back in 1998 when my back and knees were beginning to show their age under heavy loads. I figured there had to be a better way, and sure enough I stumbled across the concepts of Ultralight backpacking. In the years since it's been a real treat to hear from folks who've shaved off the pounds, some now traveling ultralight and some not, but all lighter and happier. Best of all are the people who had given up backpacking due to health problems preventing them from carrying heavy loads, but now write to say that thanks to ultralight techniques they are actually able to get into the backcountry again!

Backpacking Lightweight

If you engage in backpacking, at some point, you may consider packing a lighter load. That consideration was the main reason that Backpacking Lightweight was created in 1996, and it continues to be its primary focus. Since then, however, the Lightweight Backpacking & Hiking website has grown to include a vast repository of resources useful for year-round backcountry safety & enjoyment. While it is true that Backpacking Lightweight promotes ultralight backpacking & hiking, featuring lightweight backpacking equipment, it is a also a proven resource.

Adventure Allan's Ultralite Backpacking

How about a 17 pound pack for a weekend trip? A 24 pound pack for a one week trip? At these pack weights, backpacking feels more like day hiking. It's hard to describe how freeing this is until you experience it. The trail miles melt away. Without the misery of a heavy pack you can actually appreciate the beauty of the land you're hiking through. You get into camp early, with plenty of time and energy to do almost anything. I believe that you can take everything you need to be safe and warm for around 12 pounds for pack and equipment (I carry around 8-9 pounds. If you add around 1.75 pounds of food per day, you have a 24 pound pack for a seven day trip and a 17 pound pack for a weekend, 3 days and 2 nights.

The Ultralight Backpacking Site

Ultralight backpacking lets you bag that fourteener with your pack on - it weighs less than two gallons of water! Descend by any route, because you didn't leave behind a heavy backpack. That's freedom.

Sling your lightweight backpack from one shoulder to let your back cool as you hike. Go sixteen miles without blisters, because your light load doesn't require hot, heavy boots. That's comfort.

Lightweight backpacking, fastpacking, ultralight backpacking - whatever you call it - it gives you more freedom and comfort. (Need more convincing?

Bushwhack Adventures (North Carolina)

Bushwhack Adventures came about as a way to promote adventure racing in central North Carolina. What better way to promote the sport than by organizing adventure races?! Bushwhack Adventures strives to provide events that are navigationally challenging, fun to participate in, and affordable for more people. An emphasis will be placed on the co-ed 3-person team format, as well as events longer than sprint-length. However, format flexibility and shorter courses will also be offered in order to make events more accessible to new adventure racers.

Bushwhack Adventures (South Africa)

Bushwhack Adventures was born from an experiential learning teambuild program developed by the CIS Group of Companies. The significance of the name is entrenched in our endeavor to create a feeling of belonging and teamwork during our adventures. Like the painted dog, portrayed in our logo, we are a bunch of highly sociable creatures and enjoy the co-operation of all our adventurers

Brush and Bushwhack Rating System

No longer must one try to decipher the deranged mutterings of a victim of jungle warfare. A person needs only to apply the appropriate brush ratings to relate his brutal experience to others.

Bushwhacker

At Bushwhacker, they do what we sell. Bushwhacker is an employee-owned company based in Peoria, Illinois and staffed by friendly outdoor enthusiasts dedicated to help you appreciate your active lifestyle.  Beginner and expert alike will receive knowledgeable advice and excellent values on a wide variety of high quality gear.

Bushwhacker Wilderness Adventure

Bushwhacker Wilderness Adventures features articles and links to information on canoeing, kayaking, hiking, backpacking, winter camping and other self-propelled activities. Bushwhacker promotes living in harmony with nature. Learn the proper skills and you will feel at home in the bush, instead of an alien in a hostile environment.

Bushwhacker Museum

Vernon County decided, a few decades ago, to revive and make something of, at least to acknowledge if not necessarily celebrate, the memory of its Confederate / Bushwhacker heritage, once very much alive, though it had been allowed to fade away with the generation that knew it at first hand.

Bushwhacker Climbing Club

The Bushwhacker Climbing Club is a non-profit organization created by Pacific Northwest area climbers. The Bushwhacker community has been hiking, climbing and socializing together for years, and in 2003 we created a club.

Bushwhacker Bags

At Bushwhacker, all they make are bags: hydration bags, seat wedges, panniers, handlebar bags ... all kinds of bags. They believe their bags are the finest bags available. Providing premium bags is their business. Their only focus. They reviewed the competition, then they gathered the very best materials and craftsmen and made their bags better and stronger.

BackPacker.com

The outdoors at your doorstep.

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