>>2836338>in almost all cases you're better carrying the water you need in with youSpoken like a true /in/ fag.
I'm usually one of the guys saying you can carry more than you think, if you've got the proper gear (alice all the way), but seriously, carrying water?
Let me give you an actual frame of reference:
In summer, I need around 5l / day just for drinking + ~1l for rehydrating food. Per day. With a normal weekend trip (friday afternoon to sunday evening), that means having to pack ~15l just for eating and drinking. In the evenings, when I'm also carrying water for washing up for the last hill, that would mean carrying 20kg of water + ~3kg of water bags. 23 kg in total.
in winter, it's even worse, since the dry air dehydrates you at night, too. There, it's closer to 7l / day, which brings us to almost 30kg of water + containers. That means using a bigger pack, since even my large molle alice won't fit that much with the rest of the gear, so I'd have to carry my largest pack (savotta xl + pouches).
I'll spare you the exact calculations, but that would bring my normal pack weight of 12kg during the day and 15 kg for the ladst ascent to somewhere around 50kg, even with otherwise spartan, minimal equipment. With comfortable gear (tent instead of tarp, groundsheet instead of just a pad, cooking vessels instead of cup noodles etc), weight would get closer to 60kg. There's no reasonable way to cary that much weight crosscountry.
And obviously, with proper trips, the numbers get even worse - for my longest trip so far, I would've had to carry over 100kg even assuming I would've resupplied at every village I passed through, or ~500kg if I'd just resupplied in the towns I resupplied food in.