there are other camping/hiking/thru-hiking communities and i would like to know what kind of content you want to see : long-term travel with a backpack? hiking only? what’s for you the difference between backpacking and hiking?
For me hiking is a day trip and backpacking is at least one night. I would keep the two separate as planning and what’s required are different.
I want to see any and all cool trips that are involved enough to necessitate carrying gear. Day hikes, multi-day through hikes, alpine mountaineering, even bumming around Europe during your gap year before university.
I’ve always seen them as similar, but hiking to me means you’re back at home in the evening while backpacking involves setting up camp after hiking.
as far as i understood, there is ‘dayhiking, hiking, thru-hiking…’.depending on the length of your hike.
I will associate hiking with mountains and nature For me, backpacking is more general : city travelling or include electronics and more ‘nomadic’ way of life, not focussing only on mountains and nature. The difference/challenge with ‘travelling’ is to have only a backpack when you are a long-term traveller.
Hikes of alot of kind excluding the ones with car, tips about backpacking, trips someone did, videos of gear, tents to buy. Tbh I just wanna get to know the gear and make a good decision
I created [email protected] to focus on, as it says, backpacking in the wilderness, regardless of ultralight, lightweight, luxe, etc. The qualifier there is that it is wilderness that follows Leave No Trace principles. I like a backpacking community that is broader, including wilderness and urban backpacking and hopefully discusses things like gear, food, routes, safety, communities, etc.
all backpacking communities are welcome : we offer an alternative to reddit and i’m happy with all these new communities.
I came for an alternative to r/ultralight. It seems as though this will be the catchall for any backpacking type community, at least for now.
yes, that’s the idea : urban backpackers, wilderness backpackers, anyone who embrace the philosophy : ’ I just want my lovely backpack ’
Until this community grows large enough that it would become distracting, I’d like to see some rules around posting gear for sale/trade.
I saw that lemmit.online can be used to mirror subreddits until Lemmy grows so there is https://lemmit.online/c/GearTrade, but it means having to open Reddit if I’m interested in anything. I mostly watch the stream to get ideas.
I’d also be interested in seeing some gear reviews. I’m not necessarily against links to “reviewer” content (like Darwin Onthetrail) either, but I mean informal reviews by community members.
While I’m not cutting down my toothbrush I do also like to read about ultralight mods, so I hope folks post some here because the “ultralight” communities I’ve found are pretty dead right now.
