Gear I Stopped Carrying: What Mark Denney's Worst Gifts List Taught Me About Traveling Light

Gear I Stopped Carrying: What Mark Denney's Worst Gifts List Taught Me About Traveling Light

Twenty years of pre-dawn departures from Bend teaches you something that no gear catalog ever will: what you don’t carry matters as much as what you do. Every extra pound in that bag is a decision you’ll second-guess at mile four of a trail in the dark. So when I came across Mark Denney’s holiday gift guide framed entirely around gear he wouldn’t recommend, I felt a genuine pull of recognition.