Ultralight Done Right: Light Reads–Low Weight Books

You need a good read on any over-nighter. Just don't pack War and Peace. With these books, you'll stay on the ultralight track.

A little light camp reading:

1. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (62 pages)

2. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (112 pages)

3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (112 pages)

4. Animal Farm, George Orwell (113 pages)

5. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse (120 pages)

6. The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (123 pages)

7. The Stranger, Camus (160 pages)

8. BACKPACKER (one issue = 7.2 ounces)

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