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May 27, 2009 at 6:02 pm #1236597
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 tentMay 27, 2009 at 6:13 pm #1503974Thanks 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.
May 27, 2009 at 6:20 pm #1503976Probably half the weight of whatever Backpacker magazine is recommending now.
May 27, 2009 at 6:25 pm #1503978These 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.
May 27, 2009 at 6:40 pm #1503985the 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…..
May 27, 2009 at 8:05 pm #1504004Sure, 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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