Big thank you to aquatabs for sponsoring this video! I’ve carried their water treatment tablets on every trip since my first thruhike in 2019 and I am so excited to be working with them.

Today, I’m talking about all the things we can learn from the laziness of thruhikers. If you’ve ever wondered how to save energy while backpacking, or how to become a more efficient backpacker, this video is for you! What started as a joke about how lazy I am at camp, led to an epiphany about how we can look to thruhikers for making even the shortest backpacking trips highly efficient. Save energy on the little things, so you can put more effort into making the miles that matter!

The blog version: https://www.eliseott.com/backpacking...

Items that aid my own personal brand of thruhiker laziness:
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Water treatment:
Aquatabs: https://bit.ly/3TTL2OA

Cowboy Camping setup:
Sit/sleeping pad: Gossamer Gear ThinLight foam pad (rolled) 2.7 oz. https://alnk.to/eZFicGi
Sleeping Pad: Nemo Tensor Ultralight Insulated Sleeping Pad: Regular | 15 oz. https://alnk.to/dpqtmTU
Ground Sheet: Tyvek Small 84 x 36 | 4.5 oz. https://alnk.to/6bTp9Y0
Sleeping Bag: Katabatic Sawatch 15 degree 6ft, regular 850fp expedry down 26 oz. https://alnk.to/3nfhsbd *gifted

My light gear list:
https://www.eliseott.com/2023backpac...