{"id":983,"date":"2005-09-26T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-09T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T20:31:15","slug":"lighten-up-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/lighten-up-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighten Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a companion to the previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/allen-mikes-rea\/.php\"><em>Allen and Mike&#8217;s Really Cool Backpackin&#8217; Book<\/em><\/a>&#8212; same droll cartoonist, different author: Don Ladigan, teacher of light backpacking at the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>The revolution started by Ray Jardine in his <a href=\"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/beyond-backpack\/\"><em>Beyond Backpacking<\/em><\/a> (2000) continues. Every year sees drastically lighter and cleverer gear, and the savvy to match also grows apace, as you&#8217;ll find in this book. &#8220;Ultralight&#8221; even has a definition now: it&#8217;s when your pack and everything in it (except consumables such as water and food) weighs 10 pounds or less. Backpacking becomes a jaunt instead of a slog, and that liberates the whole experience.<\/p>\n<p>How about a luxury breakfast with minimal kitchen gear and zero clean up? See the example below&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy intro to ultralight backpacking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}