>>2420857>knifeBut you don't need a knife. Scissors or a razor blade do food prep to tinder to repairs to hygiene, and a trekking pole is a better weapon against any animal. Describe a realistic outdoors situation where a knife is a necessity short of skinning/butchering, as so far all I've heard is fantasies where people forget their ferro rods/lighters
>Ultralight onlyIt is a design philosophy. if your bag needs 500D Cordura because it gets dragged across granite, as long as it's designed without superfluous features it's ultralight.
>cold soakersCold soaking is perfectly fine method of pre-digesting food and many people use it to walk thousands of miles. In winter or on group trips you might appreciate the warmth and morale of hot food and drink but otherwise, there's no reason you need to cook daily except for pleasure. Distance athletes don't build a fire and whip out the skillet.
>dyneema apologistsIf you can afford it it's an incredible outdoors material, just a luxury because of its relatively short life due to low abrasion resistance. Noise in rain, lack of stretch and larger pack volume are offset against incredible tear resistance, weight and true water impermeability/hydrophobic sealed layer.
Mixed with other fabrics or faced with nylon it can be very durable while retaining strength and lightness, which is why it's commonly used in climbing and is even used in military contracts (for the countries that can afford it).
>huntingThousands of professional hunters and many more amateurs will tell you that going light lets you hunt longer and further and pack more out. What extra abrasion does a sleeping bag, pad or tent receive on a hunting trip that it doesn't on a hiking trail? There are a number of very popular manufacturers like Seek Outside that make hunting gear with modern ultralight fabrics that would blow this airshit stuff out of the water in usability and weight and give it a good run for its money on abrasion resistance and durability.
