I like carrying a light, frameless pack and I’m quite comfortable doing with weights reaching into the high teens. Around 20# it becomes less fun and at 22 or 23# I’m highly uncomfortable.
I have yet to find a framed pack that I like carrying. I have thought about adding something stiff to a frameless pack like a sheet of coroplast (fluted polyethylene) but never tried it. I haven’t had much luck with a folded or rolled CCF pad except with a Ridgerest rolled up burrito style but it uses a lot of volume, I don’t like sleeping on a CCF pad and it ends up pretty heavy as frames go.
I just saw this GS thread from Luke which shows a DIY pad using a hoop and stay from ULA. I’m wondering if anyone else has tried similar setups and if they have proven effective.
