Skurka's the featured guest at the Lightweight Backpacking + Skills Clinic tonight at 7 p.m. at Boulder's Neptune Mountaineering, Table Mesa Shopping Center 633 South Broadway ($5).
Here's more on tonight's clinic, via Neptune:
Lightweight backpacking is safer, more comfortable, less expensive, and more fun than conventional/heavy backpacking. This clinic will demonstrate how and why. It will be given by distinguished long-distance backpacker Andrew Skurka, a lightweight pioneer who has hiked 25,000+ miles since 2002 ... Clinic attendees will be given the knowledge and skills to go on a 3-day 3-season backpacking trip with no more than 20 pounds of gear and food (sans water).
The clinic begins with a big-picture discussion about lightweight backpacking: why go light, core principals, steps to lighten up, etc. A show-and-tell of lightweight gear follows -- Skurka will demo an assortment of packs, shelters, stoves, clothing, and more. To finish, the audience assembles a single lightweight kit that is applicable to the environmental conditions and trip objectives most common on their trips.
For more on Skurka and his many adventures, visit AndrewSkurka.com
