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    Allison Sayre
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    @teamalli

    Locale: PNW

    http://outside.away.com/outside/gear/200905/ultralight-backpacking-gear.html

    Thought you guys might enjoy this. Among their recommendations:
    15 oz stove
    21 oz cookset
    24 oz sleeping bag
    54.4 oz tent

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    Ashley Brown
    Member

    @ashleyb

    Thanks Alli.

    To be fair, it's not a bad list for someone new to lightweight. Plenty of Exos, Inov8 390, and Marmot Hydrogen owners here. And the tent is a two man (kinda) free-standing. Cookset and stove is overkill when you can have a small canister and 5oz greasepot.

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    Joe Clement
    BPL Member

    @skinewmexico

    Locale: Southwest

    Probably half the weight of whatever Backpacker magazine is recommending now.

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    George Phoenix
    Member

    @perrito

    Locale: Joisey

    These guys are pathetic. Most of these items are certainly their advertisers' light items. The term "ultralight" is ridiculously misused as a catch phrase far too often. Too bad there's no place for a comment on the page.

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    Jared Cook
    Member

    @rooinater

    Locale: Northwet

    the stove and cook system should be lighter otherwise I could see a lightweight backpacker carrying the tent or anyone that can't wrap their head around a tarptent or tarp setup. my 2 person cook system weighs about 12oz, and my solo weighs 4.5oz… including the stove to pot to spork to lighter…..

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    Allison Sayre
    Member

    @teamalli

    Locale: PNW

    Sure, those three items are great. But a 21-ounce cookset? Like a previous poster said, you can just use a k-mart greasepot (mine weighs 3.625 ounces without the strainer), which costs $7. That's 1/10th of the price of the kit they mentioned. And it's even more bizarre because the Eta-Express is like a jetboil, it comes with a pot.

    Maybe I'm annoyed because in my outside e-mail it was advertised as "world's lightest gear". No mention of tarps, alc stoves, or the NeoAir for dog's sake.

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