Ideas/phylosophies to reduce my baseweight please

Hi Mik

First aid kit is a bit heavy. I have never carried a space blanket: I have my tent.
Poncho is a little heavy: mine is 200 g.
Otherwise, for Oz winter, it all seems reasonable.

To be sure, 4 kg would LOOK nicer than 5 kg, but it won’t make you travel any faster. At some point one goes from ‘light’ to ‘stupid light’, and for a week in the bush that is not smart. I find that an all-up pack weight of under 12 kg does not have any real influence on my travel.

Btw: I do not carry a GPS, a PLB, or a radio. Never felt the need.

Cheers

Thank you for the feedback Roger. I would like to address a couple of your points.

1. My Poncho is actually a parcho that I bought off ebay so it’s cheap and heavy-ish. I am looking into making my own now out of SilNylon and it will drop the weight by ‘about’ 120g or so making it gor fromm 344g to the low 200s.

2. First aid kit. I have no space blanket in there anymore (might be an old kit description I have not altered) but I have medications, pain killers, tiny amounts of betadine/sudo cream/mouthwash and other non ‘first aid kit’ specific stuff. Mouthwash is for killing ticks btw, they die almost immediately when you dab it on them.
PS;I actually just remeasured it and it is not 300g but only 240…..wonder what I have taken out of it!!! lol

Another interesting point about the space blanket:

We did a ‘survival course’ about 4 weeks ago and someone pulled some reflective bits and pieces out of their space blanket pouch. Upon investigation it was discovered that the space blanket COMPLETELY disintegrated in it’s own pouch!!!! It literally broke down in storage.