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I recommend:
-Trade the cooking stuff for a half-gallon lightweight pot.
-Trade the bottles for thin plastic.
-Fuck yer coffee it's deadweight.
-Fuck yer camera just enjoy the experience or learn to draw.
-Add a headlamp or trade out the small flashlight for one.
-Trade the nylon thread for a spool of fishing line and a bundle of para cord.
-Leave the cosmetic shit behind you're innawoods.
-Trade the zippo for like 2-6 bic lighters. Unless you're camping for months, you're not going to run out of lighter fuel, and bic lighters are cheaper than a zippo and all of your zippo accessories. Learning to drill a fire with wood is an easy and underrated skill, it takes less than a minute for someone experienced to use a hand drill.
-Leave the sharpener.
-Find a smaller compass.
-Leave the thermometer.
-God leave the ferrorod and light a fire with your lighter.
-Leave the big heavy knives. Get a smaller knife if you can. A pack of razors and some wire will do and save you a lot of weight, learning to knap is even better, but I know, "muhknives". Most people don't even use them.
-leave the chair. Sit on logs or rocks.
-A small tent would be smaller and lighter than those two tarps, and would be bug proof.
-Consider a very small sleeping bag, sub zero if you can get one.
Add:
-A small spool of lightweight wire. Pic related is my favorite shit if you can find it at a surplus store.
-A package of bells from a craft store, depending on where you are hiking. It alerts dangerous animals to your presence, and you can set up a warning system with them if you're sleeping in the middle of nowhere.
-A medicine bottle or small case with some fish hooks, some split shot and a couple of drop line weights, and a few small rubber lures.
-Ziploc bags.
-Salt.
Disregard me if you're only going on 1-3 day trips, it doesn't matter what you bring for short adventures. The first instinct is to overpack and overprepare, but on longer trips, weight and bulk are extremely important.
