What's the weight of your BIG FOUR?

[kevperro]

• ULA Catalyst 47oz.
• Tarptent Sublite (with various stakes groundcloth etc..) 24oz.
• Exped UL7 16.3 oz.
• Marmot Arroyo bag 27oz.

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Total 114 oz or about 7.14 lbs.


I'm thinking of buying a ULA Ohm 2.0 for my 3-5 day hikes which are a much larger proportion of my hiking these days. That would cut off approx another 18oz and gets me down around 6lbs.

[Juice]

winter weight
zpacks zero 30 = 5oz
MH phantom 15 = 33oz
cuben tarp and
tyvek ground sheet= 9.2oz
generic foam torso pad 1/4in = 3.5oz

=50.7oz or 3.17lbs
exchange neo air for foam pad = 61.2oz or 3.82lbs

summer weight
zpacks zero 30 = 5oz
MH phantom 45 = 19oz
cuben tarp, tyvek groundsheet and MLD bug bivy = 15.2oz
generic foam torso pad 1/4in = 3.5oz
=42.7oz or 2.67lbs
exchange neo air for foam pad = 53.2oz or 3.32lbs

I've started to question my mental health-

[timmy_toes]

tarptent zpack heximid - 4.9oz (with stakes and guidelines)
zpack quilt 20 degree Long - 18.3oz
gossamer pad torso length - 6oz
zpack blast 22 (carbon fiber stays) - 8.6oz

total - 39.2oz

[Wags]

Enjoying that Zpacks quilt? Anxious to see some longer term reports on them. Joe's a great guy!

[rocketsocks]

Pack 4lbs. 8oz. / Sleep pad 1lb 6oz. / Bag 3lbs. 4oz./ Tent 3lbs.=(12lbs. 2oz.) I look forward to shaving (slashing)this number.Yeah more gear sniffing.

[tammons]

Thats as heavy as my entire pack less food and water.<br><br>If you ever want to lose some weight on the cheap......<br><br>Buy a used golite JamII and strip it out a bit. Used goes for about $50.<br>You will need to reduce and keep down your overall volume a lot to use it. Stripped out a bit it weighs about 18 oz.<br><br>Buy some M90 fabric and some climasheld XP from thruhiker and sew up a quilt. Easy since you only have to edge sew it.<br>M90 taffetta is really comfy too. Nice stuff. <br>Summer 2.5 oz apex 45 dF quilt at about 15 oz - $90 materials.<br>or a 5 oz apex 25dF quilt at about 24 oz - $110 materials.<br>If you cant sew find somebody that can. Very easy once the material is cut out.<br><br>Sleeping bag Sales I have seen recently - <br>Synthetic<br>Summer - NF lynx - 40dF - $115 shipped and 28oz.<br>Cats meow - 20dF - $125 shipped and 44 oz<br>Both synthetic. Bulky and most likely would not work with a JamII.<br>Lot of Down bags on sale too.<br><br>If you prefer down, do it right once and drop some $ on a high quality down bag if you can afford it.<br>The golite ultra 20 is a really nice down quilt. Not made anymore but you can still find them used. <br>I slept in mine down to 14dF in a hammock. Weighs about 21 oz.<br><br>Buy a cheap&nbsp; blue pad and trim it and cut it in half - $10 and a used prolite 3 small. Got my last prolite for $30 used.&nbsp; New on sale $45. 15 oz total.<br>Alternatively if you are really hard core get a full length Gosemer gear 1/8" pad for your legs in summer. $8 and 2.5 oz.<br><br>Buy a Eureka spitfire, toss the steel stakes and buy some titanium stakes from Quest. Comes in at exactly 48 oz.<br>Saw one the other day for $90 shipped, new.<br><br>That will put your big 4 summer pack with a CS quilt at about 6# for about $300<br>Keep everything else under 6# and you are set.<br><br>5 oz alcohol beer can cook kit - Almost free<br>Sawyer squeeze water filter and some chlorine and a dirty bottle - 8 oz - $50 on Ebay<br>Driducks ultra-lite2 rain suit - 10oz - $20 - No good for bush whacking.<br>Campmor extended poncho tarp is a good one and weighs 9 oz and adds a lot of versatility to a wet tent setup.<br><br>Carry Very little of everything else. <br>UL Cloths are the most expensive IMO. Fleece is a space killer.<br>Buy your pack last to make sure everything fits.<br><br>You could even lose more weight by just going with a 5x9 extended poncho tarp, tyvek bivy etc.<br>Quest sells 1.25 oz tyvek and its perfect for a cheap light bivy and you can glue it. About 8 oz and $5 per yard.<br>I use frostking sliding door film (polycro) for a ground cloth. 2 oz and $15 worth makes 2.<br><br>

[tammons]

Sorry about the text above.
WB site threw a curve ball at me but as you can see if you can decipher the gibberish above you can go UL for pretty cheap.

[STICK]

My winter set-up (in the southeast, so it may be others 3 season):

ZPacks Cuben Fiber Blast 30 Backpack & Multipack: 10 oz
ZPacks Cuben Fiber Hexamid Solo Plus Tent w/ Beak, cuben Ground sheet & Stakes: 17.7 oz
Marmot Helium Sleeping bag: 34.5
NeoAir: 13.8 oz
1/4" XLPE CCF Pad (48x20): 6 oz

Total: 82 oz / 5.1 lbs

My summer set-up:

ZPacks Cuben Fiber Zero Pack (Small) & Multipack: 5 oz
ZPacks Cuben Fiber Hexamid Solo Plus Tent w/ Beak, cuben Ground sheet & Stakes: 17.7 oz
Hammock Gear 50 F Burrow (Custom): 12.9 oz
NeoAir: 13.8 oz
1/8" Gossamer Gear Thinlight Pad: 1.7 oz

Total: 51.1 oz / 3.2 lbs

[timmy_toes]

i have yet to give it a field test super busy working and saving for my trip in april, but hopefully going to get to try it out next week! Thunder swap here i come

[AndyB]

Gregory Z65 -67 ounces
Big Agnes Fly Creek- 36 ounces
Marmot Arroyo -31
ridgerest-9
143 ounces, 8 pounds 9 ounces
The pack is not the lightest, but I love it and I appreciate the "overbuiltness" of the suspension plus I'm brand loyal to a fault.
My Gregory Shasta, during my 95 thru, weighed over 6 pounds empty,lol so while not ultra light, it's light enough to be a huge difference to me.

Andy

[AndyB]

might get a quilt, that will shave off another 6-8 ounces. Still on the fence

[Oak88]

Keeping in mind some of us are large people...

Pack- Osprey Exos 46 Large - 39 oz
Tent - Big Agnes Fly Creek UL- 34oz
Sleeping Bag Western Mt. Alpinlite 6'6" 33 +2 oz overstuffed
Sleeping Pad Neo Air Long 14.9 oz

Totals 127.9 oz = 7.99375 lbs.

7.99 sounds better than 8 lbs only 799

[Eywa Dude]

Pack: Gossamer Gear Mariposa Plus - 22 oz.
Tent: Tarptent Moment - 30 oz.
Sleeping bag: Feathered Friends Swallow (15 deg. with 900 fill) - 26 oz. (the website isn't updated, this is the true weight quoted to me by Feathered Friends)
Sleeping pad: Therm-A-Rest NeoAir XLite - 12 oz.

Total= 90 oz., or roughly 5.55 lbs.

[Sandy of PA]

Pack:Homemade with stay and sitpad from Gossamer Gear 24 ozs
Tent: Z-Packs Hexamid Tent with extended beak , Solo-plus cuben ground sheet, stakes 17.8 ozs
Quilt: Homemade down using Thru-hiker Kit 22.4 ozs
Pad: Neo-Air All Season Large shortened to fit with BA pump sack 21.7 ozs
Total: 5lbs 5.9ozs

[Bloomer]

Summer
Pack : ULA CDT Large - 21 oz
Tent : TarpTent Notch - 26oz
Bag : Montbell Long #5 (40) - 17oz
Pad : BA Ins Air Core Long - 23oz (replace?)
Total = 90oz or 5 ibs. 7oz.

Winter
Pack - ULA Catlyst Large : 49oz
Tent - BA Copper Spur : 48oz
Bag - BA Grouse Mnt long : 54oz
Pad - BA Ins Air Core long : 23oz
Total - 174oz or 10lbs 14oz

[Firefighter503]

Pack: ULA Catalyst - 47 oz
Tent: Tarptent Contrail - 24.4 oz
Bag: Montbell U. L. Super Spiral Down Hugger #1 - 36 oz
Pad: Thermarest Neo Air Regular - 14.5
Total: 121.9 oz or 7.6 lbs

For summer I switch the Montbell #1 out for a #5 that weighs 16 oz for a total weight of 101.9 oz or 6.4 lbs.

I am pretty happy with where I am at right now as far as base weight goes. I could probably switch to a Circuit and have some weight savings, but the rest of my pack weighs like 15-16 lbs total in the winter with all of my clothes in it that I would ever wear, so about 13-14 lbs base.

[tammons]

I am now at about 5.1# in summer +- 35-40dF.
Contrail, MYOG quilt, GG 1/8 pad, Neoair small, Mariposa.

6.5# will take me down to about 5-10dF with a thicker quilt, and more pad.

SUL summer bare minimum type stuff - 3.9# but that includes a poncho.
Poncho Tarp, Bivy, quilt, lighter pack etc.

[Ohio Grown]

Lightheart Solong 6: 29 oz (seam sealed)
ULA Circuit: 36 oz
MH Phantom 15: 31 oz (spring)
MH Phantom 45: 17 oz (summer)
NeoAir Xlite Reg: 12 oz

Spring: 6.75 lbs
Summer: 5.8 lbs

[Zigzag]

Z-packs Exo wGG torsolite pad-18oz., Neoair 20x72 pad, 13.2 oz., WM Ultralite to start, 29oz. switch to WM Summerlite in May, 19.0z, Tent, Golite shangra 2 w/6" bug netting sewn on bottom, Floor Cuben 1.43 custom sewn with 5" bathtub, total under 2 lbs. Tarp supported by BD ultradistance caron poles.

[Prada]

Wow, I see some really beautiful LOW numbers here. I love it and I'm jealous of some of you. I LOVE my comfy equipment tho.

MSR Hubba and footprint- 50 oz
Deuter ACT Pack Lite, 65 + 10- 63 oz
Neo Air All Season, Large, with sack- 25oz
Exped Waterbloc 800 5* bag and liner- 59 oz

for a total of 197oz, or 12.3 lbs.