Sea to Summit Ultralight

Tyndall Creek to tarn above Guitar Lake: 13.5 Miles Sept. 21st, 2011. This was a relaxing day with low mileage and easy terrain. I stop...

This is a simple summer quilt with 1" baffles. After fooling around with a lot of different designs, dimensions and materials this fin...

I will be doing the first section of the Sierra High Route this September with my backpacking buddy Dan. Although this portion of the SHR...

Some good ideas are simple. The first time her Kindle gets dropped in a stream my wife will be hoping this was one of those good simple ide...

Most of the lightest dry bags and pack liners that I've found are around 2 ozs, and that just seems way too heavy. So I made a simple r...

The Cuben Fiber iPhone Shoulder Pouch is essentially a slimmer version of the popular shoulder pouches already offered by some cottage manu...

The Cuben Wedge is a simple tarp shelter design borrowed from the groundbreaking ultralight backpacker Glen Van Peski of Gossamer Gear. I h...

After reading many of the MYOG posts on BPL I started to get comfortable making most of my gear last summer. This is my humble attempt to g...

The quilt described below can be used as a sleeping bag or a warm puffy jacket, which is nice! I am new to making my own gear and just re...

After seeing some of the cuben hybrid material used on the Zpacks Exo backpacks, I decided to try some on my own version of a cuben pack.  ...