High Sierra Topix

Markskor-
you've got the right idea!

rlown-
Longest trek Ive done was six days, years ago, to McGee Lakes (north of Mammoth).
Believe my pack was in the upper 40's/ very low 50's. Most treks are four days & I happily
get my pack around the very low 40's ballpark!

so, in the last two years, I've replaced my thermarest with a new neo-air, A garcia bear can with a Bearikade, an REI down bag with a WM badger, and an old kelty tent with a tarptent.

Dropped 1k for a weight savings of 7 lbs.. Gonna have to pry that Tioga 5500 from my back though, even at 3.5lbs of base weight.

1. ULA-Circuit: 35oz

2. Big Agnes FlyCreek UL1 (w/stakes): 36oz

3. Western Mountaineering Versalite 10degree: 36oz (PCT)

4. Compacter bag stuffsac: 2oz

5. ULA bag pack cover: 2.4oz

6. Patagonia Capoline 2: 5oz

7. Wool beanie: 2oz

8. Gloves: 1oz

9. Headlamp: 1oz

10.Charging kit: 3oz

11. Cell phone: 5oz

12. Fun kit: 4oz

13. GG groundsheet: 1.4oz

14. Maps, journal: 4oz (PCT)

15. Camera: 5oz

16. Cookset: 7oz

17. BV 450 Bear Vault: 2lb 1oz (only Sierra)

18. Personal kit (toilet paper, credit cards, etc..) 4oz

19. Headnet: 1oz

20. Sunglasses: 2oz

21. Sun screen, deet: 3oz

22. Ipod: 1oz

23. Puffy jacket w/pillowcase: 11oz

24. Rain Jacket: 7oz - Rainpants: 4oz

25. Sleeping pad: 10oz

26. 2L Smartwater bottle x2: 4oz
full: 2lbs 5oz

28. Platypus 2L: 2oz
full: 4lbs 14oz

29. Food stuffsac: 3oz

30. Hat: 2oz

31. Fuel container w/duct tape: 2oz

Total basweight: 12lb 9oz (PCT) w/bear vault 14lb 10oz
205.8 oz

Typical summer sierra or winter coastal/desert pack weight before food and water is 12 to 14 pounds.

I bring zero luxery items....just the nessecities. I hike and just use my five senses for entertainment

mp88- did you say I-pod is 1 ounce! I doubt that. Do you mean the electronic Applie I-pod?

I've kind of stopped fooling myself about base weight. Before every trip, I lay out all my crap on the dining table.. Configure the stuff I need for time, duration, and activities (fishing) including food, put it in the pack, and jump on the bathroom scale. Bent the scale on one trip, but that was a special trip.

Then I cull.

I like to fish early when it's cold, and late when it's cold, so I'm not a guy who jumps in the tent if the bite is on. Hence, I might be heavy on clothes depending on when and where I go.

Wandering Daisy wrote:mp88- did you say I-pod is 1 ounce! I doubt that. Do you mean the electronic Applie I-pod?

Ipod shuffle 1oz 2gb 500 songs
I own a fish scale as well as a letter scale, leave nothing to chance. HA-ha

My last 10+ trips I used the same x - frame Kelty as rlown and like him, swear by it, and remember this, most days I was Cross Country. I tried an internal frame pack, but for me it was almost masochistic. As to weight in general I was always comfortable at 40 - 45 lbs. Under 40 was usually on the way out. Over 45 was a grind. Like I mentioned before, when I went with my son(s) It was heavy, slow and go -- very heavy and very slow.

On our way to Benson

mp88 wrote:

Wandering Daisy wrote:mp88- did you say I-pod is 1 ounce! I doubt that. Do you mean the electronic Applie I-pod?

Ipod shuffle 1oz 2gb 500 songs
I own a fish scale as well as a letter scale, leave nothing to chance. HA-ha

Strange new world when an iPod shows up on a base weight list.. 2 of my friends carry iPods, but there's so much going on around you, I don't need the songs..

rlown wrote: Strange new world when an iPod shows up on a base weight list...there's so much going on around you, I don't need the songs..

Still fondly recall listening to a little Willie - Whiskey River - while solo fishing under the Alpenglow last week, 10,500 feet. Pretty Sweet - found myself singing along...BTW, fish did not seem to care either way.