Couple attempt Mt Whitney carrying 100lbs each!

That’ll learn from their mistakes.. Next time, they’ll carry an extra pair of boots.

Ha ha! to Terran Terran’s reply!!!!!!

Are they influencers?

Or under-the-influencers?

If those are their packs in the photo, then there has to be some sort of typo – there’s no way to fit 150 lbs of gear in those packs!  Maybe they read about someone packing sand in their packs to level out their campsite, but other than that I just don’t believe it could be possible.  The 5 gallons of water is more plausible – I suspect that they were each carrying one of those 2.5 gallon disposable water containers with the built-in spout.  That didn’t show up in the gear shot because they had been emptied before heading out from where they were rescued (my speculation).

Before I found BPL, I had an Arc’teryx Bora 80 pack that weighed about 12 pounds empty (with the fanny pack/lid).  I was able to put about 60 pounds in it, but only by using pretty much all of the attachment points (and that included 5 liters of water on a trail that crossed a stream every two miles or so).  That was a long time ago when I was younger, fitter, and miserable on the trail.

Kevin – I suspect that photo may be the load once it was broken it up for transport? And they credit a passer by for helping them carry it out.

I’ve been on the fringes of a couple of SAR teams, and they are usually very careful about their reports.

There was clearly something up – it took the couple 9 hours to travel 2.7 miles, at which point they collapsed with blisters and exhaustion…