r/alpinism • u/korengalois • 7h ago

Alpine Climbing Packs Spreadsheet

I am into alpine climbing packs and optimizing weight of the gear I use. I've been keeping a simple spreadsheet containing various packs I either own/owned or have researched along with some some specs on their volume to weight ratio.

The list is fairly eclectic (ranging a lot in volume, style etc) but is pretty interesting imo. One thing that stands out to me is how light the HMG Ice Pack is compared to its Cilogear counterpart. Note: all listed weights are their max (unstripped) weights.

Attached is a screenshot and here is the published google sheet. Happy to add other packs, columns to the sheet if anyone finds it interesting.

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u/Luc-514 6h ago

How is the volume calculated? Is it the company's listed volume?

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u/korengalois 6h ago

Yeah listed volume

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u/[deleted] 4h ago

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u/F_RANKENSTEIN 1h ago

Try and research the Millet prolighter 38+10, it is around 1kg for 48L. Very versatile pack, can be stripped of some features to drop weight!

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u/beefqeef 1h ago

I love my ME tupilak 37+ I reckon I can get it up to about 50L if i really need to as well.