>>1490408Ye caught me. Haven't been backpacking proper in the three years since getting my bike license. Please disregard my training as a cub scout, boy scout, wildland firefighter, and soldier. Also ignore the three pocket rucksack, two knives, two tarps, and parachord in my parents' garage. And the 15lb pack in my apartment containing a knife, a machete, a first aid kit, more parachord, a hammock, a wool blanket, a tin cup, a fly fishing rig, two lighters, and a camp stove. With room left for clothing, food, and water.
It's not like I can construct anything I didn't bring along. Or walk 12 miles daily, laden, for a living. And I definitely don't have seven pockets on my field jacket, and four on my jeans.
But please. Tell me again how ultralight modern materials are still too heavy to separate your compass, knife, lighter, compression bandage, fishing line, and map from the rest of your kit. Teach me how the same quantity of stuff changes weight when you change pockets. Or why women have carried an emergency kit since the advent if feminism, but you can't be bothered.
(I don't actually own a scale. Can't weigh my pack, but I will tell you it weighs less than my old body armor.)
