Chair Feet

Alf

That’s cool but it also now makes the most expensive chair in the world to save 4oz….

Each to their own

A ground sheet offers the greatest area actually touching the ground, which spreads the load from the chair over the widest possible area and gives the least amount of sinking possible on soft ground so it should be the obvious solution.  But as you say, they can be heavy.  Especially Helinox’s dedicated ground sheet for the Chair Zero, which weighs a hefty 170g (5.99oz).

But these days we have DCF coming to our rescue.  Andrea at HikeLight makes DCF ground sheets for the Chair Zero (might fit other UL camp chairs too, but I haven’t tested that) that weighs a mere 22g (0.77oz).

Back in July I mentioned that I have heavily modified my Chair Zero, so much so that it cannot share the same name anymore…I now call it the Chair Sub Zero instead.

As of now, all the Aluminium tube on the frame was replaced with Carbon Fibre tube, reducing it’s weight to 310g (10.9oz), the original rubber feet (a total of 30g (1oz) were replaced with ultralight moulded plastic versions (a total of 7.15g (0.25oz)), and the original Polyester fabric seat replaced with a one-off modified prototype, made of Monolite mesh, by MTP, which weighs 49g (1.72oz).  This makes my Chair Sub Zero weigh just 359g (12.6oz) (A saving of 135g (4.8oz) over the original weight).

With the Hikelight DCF ground sheet and a Wild Sky Gear real tree camo DCF storage bag (6g (0.21oz)) included the total weight is 389g (13.7oz)…Which, as far as I currently know, still makes it the lightest such camp chair in the world (unless you know otherwise?).

Hmmm…wondering if Helinox reads BPL posts? :)

https://www.rei.com/product/C02349/helinox-ground-strap?afsrc=1

Ha, could be.