Fastpacking is all about moving quickly while carrying everything you need on your back. A beautiful blend of trail running and backpacking, it involves mostly running from A to B in order to cover as much ground as possible in a much shorter timeframe than you would if you were hiking. Because you’ll spend about 80% of your time running, however, weight plays a significantly greater role than on standard backpacking trips: pack too heavily and you’ll quickly feel it in your shoulders, back, knees and ankles.
Whenever you’re heading out to camp in the wilderness, your shelter will be one of the most important things on your kit list, but also one of the heaviest. So just how light should a tent be for fastpacking?
