Four years of shaving grams. Tent went for a tarp, cut the sleeping pad down to torso length, drilled the toothbrush, the whole embarrassing routine. Got base weight from just over 6kg to 4.1. Did five days in June with…
Footwear is the heaviest thing you are not carrying in the bag, and one pair is achievable for most trips if it is chosen against the right criterion. The criterion is not comfort at hour one, it is hour eight on hard…
Spent a year and a fair amount of money getting my base weight down. Then went out for five days and carried food that weighed almost twice what I had saved, which felt absurd. I packed by meals breakfasts, dinners,…
Frameless 40L, about 9kg loaded. Whatever I do with the load lifters and hip belt, by hour two all the pressure is on a narrow line across my collarbones and I'm shrugging constantly. Torso length is measured and…
Bought a two person tent on the strength of a 1.1kg figure, weighed the box contents and got 1.49kg including stakes, guylines and both bags. The difference is basically my entire summer sleep insulation, so I would…
Three season UK hills, usually four nights. 8.4kg base: 1.9kg tent (two person, used solo), 1.4kg pack, 1.1kg sleeping bag, 550g mat, 480g stove kit with a 1.2L pot, 900g of clothing including a fleece and a hardshell,…
68kg, first three day trip in September, hut to hut so water carries are short. Twenty percent would put me at 13.6kg loaded which feels enormous next to the gear lists I see here. I would rather know what people…
He does 25 to 30km days in the Cairngorms with a 14kg pack and has done for a decade, and he watched me weighing tent pegs with genuine pity. My days are 15 to 20km and I am at 7.8kg base. I cannot tell whether he is…
850 fill, rated 2C comfort, and I've been cold twice now on nights around 3C. Not dangerously, but awake and shivering by 4am. Sleeping in base layers on a 3.2 R value inflatable, in a single skin shelter. I'm a cold…
Four nights on the west coast in July, and I already carry poles. Tarp plus bug inner is 640g and packs tiny, the freestanding tent is 1080g and pitches on rock or boardwalk. Saving 440g matters to me but so does being…
Four multi day trips now and day one is always awful. The pack feels wrong, everything aches, I question the entire idea by lunchtime. From day two I'm completely fine and by day three I don't want to go home. Is this a…