I fully understand your beginning struggles as I went through a similar process at the beginning. I bought a cheaper backpack, tent, sleeping bag etc… Like you stated in your post I was thinking to myself oh I got this I can carry this heavy backpack 20 miles… Well needless to say I did maybe 1/3 of the trip camped and went back to the car vs finishing as I was whooped and didn’t sleep very well that night. I have since got bit by the backpacking gear bug and LOVE gear and have different gear for different reasons/seasons etc… I love the gear almost as much as the destinations.
I looked at your lighter pack and you are doing well as my setups are usually around the 15-20 lb mark (depending on the trip) myself. I don’t bring a lot of camera gear though. Maybe some moment lenses for my phone but it takes “good enough” pictures for me. I’m scared to take a “good” camera as I don’t want to start adding lenses to my setup since the picture quality is so much better :). The only suggestion I could think of would be the 20000 battery bank. If you usually do shorter trips you may not need such a large battery bank and get a 10000 Nitecore NB10000 which weighs 5.26oz.
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