ErichFromm wrote:I don't see the point in labels, UL, SUL, Light or otherwise. I do however want to save my knees as much as possible, and take advantage of new technologies and materials to that end. In past months I have a new backpack (Osprey Aether), new sleeping bag (Katabatic Gear palisade quilt) and just today received my Tarptent DR. Pretty happy at putting together some nice, quality and light, equipment. Most of my hikes are up mountains however, and I can rarely rely on finding water... So it doesn't seem to make that big a difference having a backback that weights 500gm less when I'm already carrying 6 litres of water
So ideally someone will come out with UL water and all my problems will be solved....
Thats how I use to think ErichFromm, but I now realise that if I lower the weight of all the other components in my kit I may be able to carry that same 6l of water without any penalty, where as before it was an addition burden to my pack and my body.