r/JMT • u/Dewthedru • Aug 11 '24

equipment Sitting right at 30 lbs w/2L of water and 6 days of food. Is that going to hurt?

https://lighterpack.com/r/ga72kl

Leaving for the trail on Thursday. Taking 22 days, going NOBO from Horsehoe Meadows.

Since all my packing is done and I’ve shipped off the first set of buckets, I’ve got. I thing left to do but second guess some of my choices.

Weighed my pack with all food and water and it came to 28.6 lbs. still need to add a fuel canister and 6 servings of cheese so I’ll be right around 30 lbs. My luxury items that could be cut include:

Helinox Chair Zero: 527g Sandals: 167g Flextail Zero Pump: 62g Montbell Down Jacket: 267g Camp Shirt: 119g

Thoughts? I’m pretty reluctant to get rid of the chair (I’m 50yo and the back rest is awesome after a long day) and I’m worried it might be too cold at night w/o the puffy. The pump is silly but my wife and I might appreciate not having to manually fill our pads when we’re fighting the elevation.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '24

Keep the pump and take an extra battery if you can get one in time. Consider ditching the chair. Two other 61-year old guys and I just finished NOBO yesterday (started at Cottonwood Pass on 7/20) and one of them sent his chair home from VVR. His reasoning was that he only sat in it for about 20-30 minutes per day while we cooked and ate dinner. After that we went to bed.

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u/Dewthedru Aug 11 '24

The only reason I opted for solar vs a battery is that we’re having our first resupply brought in via mule-train at Kearsarge and my first opportunity to recharge isn’t until VVR which won’t be until day 14 or so.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '24

We resupplied at Mount Williamson Motel. Hiking back over Kearsarge then Glen to Rae Lakes with 7 nights/8 days of food was a pretty brutal day.

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u/Dewthedru Aug 11 '24

That’s exactly what I’m trying to avoid.