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For over two years now, I've been doing overnight or two-night hikes using a gear kit that weighs in at around 5.5 pounds. It's going to be very hard for me to go to a lower weight without giving up some significant margins of safety. But with the kit I'm using I've been out in temperatures down to about 28°F, and in significant wind and rain storms.
I'm a very lean 6'1" and 185 lbs. So gear for me does weigh a bit more that gear for someone who is 6 inches shorter, but only by perhaps 4 or 5 ounces total.
For the sake of comparison, I do think a more useful measure is percentage of lean body weight, rather that a fixed base weight. Perhaps we should have a 5% full-skin-out base weight challenge. For example, I've been measured recently as having 15.5% body fat, so my lean body weight is about 157 pounds. That means that I should shoot for a 7.8 pounds full-skin-out kit.
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