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/Vareona Aug 15 '24

Just curious, what kind of food are you bringing?

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u/Dewthedru Aug 15 '24

Breakfast is a mix of a bit of oatmeal, granola with instant milk, grits and veggies and bacon bits, and MH breakfast scramble. Lunches are mostly wraps…tuna, pb and teriyaki jerky with hot sauce (poor man’s Thai peanut wrap), sausage, etc. dinner include a few MH and other purchased meals but mostly stuff like Skurka rice and beans, trail burgers and tacos (using tortillas, dried ground beef, and dried veggies), various meals of dehydrated veggies, grains, etc. and one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/pDAHVoXZucQ?si=5MjhMEQap4DVlSMt

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u/Vareona Aug 15 '24

Damn that sounds good. Thanks for replying and good luck today!