Light-Pack Bushwalking Links?

The internet gives you a good way to research lightweight gear before you visit the bushwalking shops. Some lightweight gear may not yet be available in Australia. It can, however, often be ordered from overseas with minimal hassles. The following are some of the sites we used to research our light-pack information. Ease of use is a personal opinion based on how easy we found it to get the information we were looking for.

Warmlite. This is an American site. Relatively easy to use. Lightweight gear. Been around a long time.

Golite. An American site. Will ship to Australia. We've tried some of their gear and liked it. Easy to use site.

REI. An American site. Largest retailer in the US. (Co-op) Own gear plus many others. Easy to use.

Mountain Equipment Coop. Canadian site. Largest retailer in Canada. (Co-op). Own gear plus many others. Easy to use.

Paddy Pallin. Australian site. Paddy Pallin stores. Own gear plus others. Good site. Easy to use.

Mountain Designs. Australian site. Own gear. Easy to use.

Snowgum. Australian site. Own gear plus others. Relatively easy to use.

Wilderness Equipment. Australian site. Own gear. Easy to use. One of the few sources of good rectangular fly sheets.

Kathmandu. New Zealand & Australia. Own gear. Relatively hard to find gear without constantly going back and starting over. Site under development and no where near complete as of February 2003.

Macpac. New Zealand. Own gear often sold in Australia. Site is resaonably easy to use if you know exactly what you ae looking for. It is, however, difficult to browse.

Korjo. Australia. Own travel gear. Good pillows. Look at product range, then personal comfort. Site easy to use. Can order direct.

Backpacker Magazine. American site. Backpacker magazine. Good gear reviews. Links to one of the most useful sites of all ...

Gearfinder. American site, from Backpacker magazine. Choose your criteria and get comparisons of dozens of different tents, sleeping bags, stoves or whatever.

Finally, another page of links.

Peak to Peak Ultralight Page. Another American site. This one has links to many other sites including private ones where people describe what they've done to minimise their pack weights on long trips.