An online shop that’s establishing a shop front in the former capital of Germany, Walk On The Wild Side serves your travel and trekking outdoor gear needs. If they can do ultralight, we’ll see in today’s OSS.
If you need to freshen up what this is all about, read the Introduction!
Walk On The Wild Side are an online shop who operate in Bonn, where they’re also slowly establishing a store front. As there’s no regular opening times yet, you can just call in to arrange a visit, in which case you get personal, private service and the possibility to check the gear before you buy. But lets see what they came up with for our OSS ultralight list:
| Item | Name | Weight | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backpack | Lightwave Ultrahike 60 | 1180 g | 188,90 € |
| Sleeping bag | Lightwave Firelight 350 | 658 g | 498,00 € |
| Mattress | Exped SynMat UL 7 | 465 g | 119,90 € |
| Shelter | Exped Vela 1 UL | 1390 g | 369,90 € |
| Pot | Evernew Ti UL Pasta Pot M 1000 | 138 g | 69,90 € |
| Stove | Evernew Ti Alcohol Stove DX Set | 90 g | 104,90 € |
| Cutlery | Nordisk Ti Spoon XL | 17 g | 10,90 € |
| Knife | Swiss Advance Feather Light | 12 g | 7,90 € |
| Lamp | Mammut S-Flex LED | 48 g | 27,90 € |
| Trekking Poles | Helinox Passport TL 125 | 348 g | 119,90 € |
| Shoes | Salomon Speedcross 3 | 614 g | 119,95 € |
| Fleece | Montane Chukchi Shirt | 238 g | 79,90 € |
| Insulation | Montane Fireball Smock | 240 g | 159,95 € |
| Rain pants | Montane Minimus Pants | 125 g | 139,90 € |
| Rain jacket | Montane Minimus Jacket | 220 g | 184,90 € |
| Boxers | Fuse Megalight 140 Boxer | 35 g | 17,90 € |
| T-Shirt | Fuse Megalight 200 T-Shirt | 92 g | 43,90 € |
| Longsleeve | Woolpower Lite Crewneck | 224 g | 84,90 € |
Total Weight: 6.143 g
Total Price: 2.349,45 €
My thoughts on the list:
- Great choices for backpack and sleeping bag
- I have made bad experiences with the Exped SynMat UL 7 so am unsure about it
- The tent, well, it’s a shame they suggested a tent instead of a tarp which they also have
- Great pot and stove, though maybe something like the Trangia Mini Set could have been a good suggestion, too
- Great shoe and garment choices
- A lightweight and affordable list that gives beginners great, reliable kit
Read the German version and comments, where also a water filter has been included (bringing the weight and price a bit further up). General a few items are missing from these lists - there’s no hiking pants or wind jackets in there because likely one can first make use of what one has - go backpacking in a lightweight synthetic pants and use the hardshell if it gets too windy. This keeps the lists simple enough, and we (Carsten and me) feel that if someone goes shopping at one of these shops you’ll get additional items you think you’ll need =) Anyway.
The standing thus far:
| Trekking-Lite-Store.com | 6.157 g | 2.288,80 € | 0,47 € per gram |
| CampSaver.com | 5.316 g | 1.993,80 € | 0,52 € per gram |
| Globetrotter | 8.995 g | 3.272,20 € | 0,36 € per gram |
| Partioaitta | 7.354 g | 2448,15 € | 0,33 € per gram |
| Bergfreunde | 4.657 g | 2.440,10 € | 0,52 € per gram |
| Walkonthewildside.eu | 6.143 g | 2.349,45 € | 0,38 g per gram |
| AVERAGE | 6.437 g | 2.465,42 € | 0,43 € per gram |
Coming next week are Backpackinglight Denmark and Racelite.de.
Disclaimer: The One Stop Shop Series was Carsten’s idea and he gave me permission to translate his posts to English and contact a few more shops around the world. If you can read German, you can head over to his blog and read the next posts with the gear lists from Racelite.de.
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