Homemade Backpacking Gear

Since I began backpacking, I have found relying on gear that I've made myself to be not only more ultilitarian, but very rewarding.  This site is a humble effort to create a repository for homemade-gear ideas that I've found both progressive and practical.  You might wonder what that strange metal-looking thing is in the upper-lefthand corner of every page.  It's the Belt-Buckle windscreen which I consider to be my first and most original contribution to the UL backpacking community and, thus, a fitting icon for my site.

The mainstay of this site is the Gear Laboratory where I post articles by myself and others.  Feel free to submit your own ideas and I will be happy to publish them.  Please keep checking back for updates and I hope you find the information here helpful. 

May 28th, 2007

My new website is up and running!  It's still a work in progress but I plan to keep working on it over the next few weeks.  Please check it out at backpackingvideos.com and let me know what you think.  I'd appreciate your feedback.