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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.Re: Pack Weight Thoughts
Tue 04 Aug, 2009 10:22 pm
This whole exercise is quite interesting in a way (a painful way).
If I went "ultralight", with the following gear I could get my pack to around 9 kilos, Helen's to 8 kilos, not including food (cost around $2,200)
3 Marmot Helium Sleeping Bags (1 Std, 2 Womens) (2.5kg)
1 WE Echo Ultralight Pack (1.7kg)
Big Agnes Copper Spur UL 3+ Season tent (2.2kg)
Clothes for Laura (5) and I, raingear for Laura and I.
Base weight, less food: 8-9kg
If I went semi-ultralight (Cost around $1500)
3 Marmot Helium Sleeping Bags (2.5kg)
1 WE Karijini Pack (3.2 kg)
1 Coleman Phad Tent (3.8kg)
Clothes and Raingear
Base weight, less food, around 13 kg
If I went cheap (likely, given my cheapness- around $1000)
3 LL Bean Climashield Mummy Bags (4kg)
1 WE Karijini Pack (3.2 kg)
1 Coleman Phad Tent (3.8kg)
Clothes and raingear
Base weight, less food, around 14.5 kg
If I went really cheap- following my original plans (Around $600)
2 Mountain Designs Wanderer 300 Bags (3.8 kg)
1 Mountain Designs Wanderer 300 Bags (1.2 kg)
1 WE Karijini Pack (3.2 kg)
1 coleman Phad Tent (3.8 kg)
Clothes and Raingear
Base Weight, less food, around 15.5 kg.
Any one step doesn't seem worth the money- 400-500 for a kilo of weight. But the difference between the ultralight and the ultracheap is huge- $1600 for a whopping savings of SEVEN kilos is pretty significant. The shift from needing a full-load carrying 20+ kg pack to a ultralight pack makes a big difference, but I wouldn't feel safe doing this with heavier gear.
If I went "ultralight", with the following gear I could get my pack to around 9 kilos, Helen's to 8 kilos, not including food (cost around $2,200)
3 Marmot Helium Sleeping Bags (1 Std, 2 Womens) (2.5kg)
1 WE Echo Ultralight Pack (1.7kg)
Big Agnes Copper Spur UL 3+ Season tent (2.2kg)
Clothes for Laura (5) and I, raingear for Laura and I.
Base weight, less food: 8-9kg
If I went semi-ultralight (Cost around $1500)
3 Marmot Helium Sleeping Bags (2.5kg)
1 WE Karijini Pack (3.2 kg)
1 Coleman Phad Tent (3.8kg)
Clothes and Raingear
Base weight, less food, around 13 kg
If I went cheap (likely, given my cheapness- around $1000)
3 LL Bean Climashield Mummy Bags (4kg)
1 WE Karijini Pack (3.2 kg)
1 Coleman Phad Tent (3.8kg)
Clothes and raingear
Base weight, less food, around 14.5 kg
If I went really cheap- following my original plans (Around $600)
2 Mountain Designs Wanderer 300 Bags (3.8 kg)
1 Mountain Designs Wanderer 300 Bags (1.2 kg)
1 WE Karijini Pack (3.2 kg)
1 coleman Phad Tent (3.8 kg)
Clothes and Raingear
Base Weight, less food, around 15.5 kg.
Any one step doesn't seem worth the money- 400-500 for a kilo of weight. But the difference between the ultralight and the ultracheap is huge- $1600 for a whopping savings of SEVEN kilos is pretty significant. The shift from needing a full-load carrying 20+ kg pack to a ultralight pack makes a big difference, but I wouldn't feel safe doing this with heavier gear.
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