A lightweight collapsible hiking cart that goes where you go.

Pack Wheel is honored to be supporting "Walk Across America for Wounded Warriors." The Pack Wheel will be used in a 2,700 mile trek across the country with donations raised being donated to The Wounded Warrior Project.

Backpacking with bicycle panniers on a Pack Wheel... or is it really backpacking? Maybe hiking with a Pack Wheel or... maybe Packwheeling.

Elk Hunting with my son in a non-wilderness area of the Unita Mountains with a Pack Wheel™ strapped to the top of my external frame backpack. If we had shot an elk we were ready to haul it off the mountain without any help or extra trips thanks to the Pack Wheel.

The ultra-light Pack Wheel makes it possible for me to hunt with the Pack Wheel on my backpack and hike out with a whole cow elk on the Pack Wheel — in one trip! At three miles up the mountain I shoot a cow elk. After boning out the elk I place all the meat (149 lbs.) on the cart and carry it easily and safely back to my vehicle. This photo shows me using an early prototype Pack Wheel along a horse trail as I bring the cow elk meat off the mountain. Watch the Pack Wheel in action on this hunt in the video playlist  to the left.

Looking for an easier way to carry the weight when backpacking or hunting? The Pack Wheel is your ticket to getting out on the trail without the back breaking pain of carrying the weight on your back. With a disc brake and a sound, strong, ergonomic design the Pack Wheel is amazingly easy to maneuver along even the narrowest of trails while carrying all the weight of your gear.

We wanted to make sure the cart was perfected before taking it to the market. With over six years of researching, developing, and in the field testing we now have the ultimate, no compromise, ultra-light hiking cart system — the Pack Wheel.

The Pack Wheel makes it amazingly easy to carry your camping gear. It completely changes how easy and pain free it is to haul a bunch of camping gear in areas that would have required backpacking. Youth and smaller framed adults can also carry their own share of camping equipment thanks to the Pack Wheel.

Gear can be carried on the Pack Wheel in many various ways. Here are a few examples:

• Bicycle panniers on the side of the cart other gear bungee chorded to the top
• Backpack on top of the cart
• Pack Wheel Panniers on the side, gear strapped on top
• Game bags in Pack Wheel Panniers on the sides and game bags on top
• Combination of panniers on the sides and a backpack on top

Inspired by Do-It-Yourself hunting adventures, the Pack Wheel™ is a lightweight collapsible cart, small and light enough, that you can carry it on your backpack while you are hunting or backpacking. If you shoot a deer or elk just bone out the meat and use the cart to haul it off the mountain. No extra trips or help required!

At less than half the weight of the closest game cart on the market the Pack Wheel™ adds great flexibility to how you can use it in your own adventures. 

At 8 3/4 pounds (20" wheel, medium)  the Pack Wheel is the lightest game cart or backpacking style cart on the market, period.  The ultimate, no compromise, ultra-light hiking cart system.

The Pack Wheel operates much like a wheelbarrow with the exception that all the weight is balanced over the wheel so that the wheel carries all the weight and not your arms. If using panniers the weight is also lower than a wheelbarrow creating a low center of gravity and in simple terms just makes balancing the Pack Wheel a breeze. Another difference from a wheelbarrow is a brake — not just any brake, but a disc brake system affording the ability to control the cart on the steepest of slopes and snowy or muddy conditions. You'll find that the brake comes in real handy when you are taking a load down a steep trail.

With the weight balanced over the wheel and having a disc brake it is very easy to navigate your way along a trail with a heavy load. If you do encounter an obstacle you just turn the Pack Wheel around pull it up and over, turn around and you are back on your way.

Below are some videos showing the Pack Wheel at work on hunting trips easily carrying cow elk and mule deer off the mountain.

You can learn more about my thoughts, experiences and development of the Pack Wheel™ on my DIY hunting website.