>>4249246So, *I ACTUALLY* backpack - dude, this is 4chan, we all go backpacking and hiking with our german shepherds and shit because we're all fucking autistic and hate people - and unless you are doing some self flagellating thru hiking where you refuse to ever utilize civilization on the way, a pound literally doesn't matter. Ounces are pounds and pounds are pain is what a marine says, carrying survival needs plus weaponry and body armor. Civilian sight-seeing backpacking is so easy to keep light that minmaxing the camera of all things is priority nada. I don't even carry water, I carry filters and tablets. The thing I make an effort to save weight on is actually what the marine who repeats that prioritizes - weaponry. I carry a plastic 10mm and only one spare mag and a .22 pistol and one spare mag. But I'm not a marine in the sandbox or whatever.
Feel free to make an exception for hunting elk because you also need to pack in butchering tools and pack out meat.
Then again, when I bring the good old german shepherd, the german shepherd carries some of the load and I have some paracord I use to make sledges for him to drag stuff around. He's a 100lbs lean working line dog with a flawless wolf-like athletic build, and he'd probably BTFO most huskies in a sled race, so I don't even have to make that exception.
>>4249247An equivalence just flew over my house.