Must Be This Way laments the lack of lightweight backpacking gear sold in the UK. Back before there was Go Lite, people just made their own stuff. Heck, Ray Jardine built a business around it. I spent an hour or two hanging around Ray’s site yesterday and I’m getting sorely tempted to order on of his home-made tarp kits. We have a couple sewing machines and Melissa figures stitching one together would be no big deal. This would of course violate my “no new gear this year” New Year’s resolution but those things are made to be broken, right?