by phan_TOM » Sat 01 Nov, 2014 1:48 pm
Great seeing everyone's setup and the variety of gear used. There's some seriously light kit becoming the norm.
My latest 3 season setup, weights are approximate.
OP McMillan 3000
MLD Duomid 1400 (with silnylon fly, solo inner, carbon fibre pole, tyvek groundsheet, pegs and guylines)
Synmat 7 UL with schnozzel pumpbag - 500
EE revelation 50f - 400
total - 5300
add 500g in winter when I take my WM Sycamore instead of quilt
If I know I have the room to pitch it and/or the weather looks miserable I've been taking my golite SL3 fly instead of the duomid fly, I have on the last two trips and it's been awesome to have all that space & it's just as easy to pitch. Doing this brings the weight up to 5600g, practically skipping along.
Camera gear is still the killer but the new camera setup almost halves the weight of my photography gear
There is an Osprey exos 58 on the wishlist which is the only change that I want to make, the McMillan is fantastic but simply too big for most of my trips. I find near the end of packing for a trip and with space to spare I tend to fill up the remaining space with whatever is lying around, nature abhors a vacuum...
ALWAYS be yourself.
Unless you can be outside, then ALWAYS be outside.