kilt belts and backpacking

**Kilted KT** · 6th April 06, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Sounds like you're doing my thing: making sure that you have absolutely EVERYTHING because you know that the people that you're with (in my case my family) are going to be carrying the bare minimum or less. I'm the walking drug/grocery/camping supply store...who's the only one who remembered to bring moleskin even though he never seems to need it himself? Who has several spare lantern mantels in his bag? I'd like to think that my group thinks of me as resourceful but it's more like paranoid and obsessive.

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AA

Yup, you nailed it on the head. I've got to be able to provide for up to 100 7th graders, most of whom have never never even been away from their playstations, much less actually out in the woods. My pack has weighed 60 lbs some years.

**Mattg** · 6th April 06, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by Kilted KT

Yup, you nailed it on the head. I've got to be able to provide for up to 100 7th graders, most of whom have never never even been away from their playstations, much less actually out in the woods. My pack has weighed 60 lbs some years.

I did that last summer when I worked at a kids camp in Colorado. I carried about 75 to 100 lbs on a day hike. Lucky for me it was food so the trip down was with an empty bag:rolleyes: Unfortunetly I wasn't kitled though

**way2fractious** · 6th April 06, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Sounds like you're doing my thing: making sure that you have absolutely EVERYTHING...

Maybe it's our ability to think ahead? My son (in the white hat) chides me about my pack weight, but he cannot deny the value of the field repair kit when his pack bag tears loose from the frame and needs to be sewn, or the clovis pin breaks, or the snap buckle breaks, etc. My camp sandals saved him on one trip and his sister on another trip. I still think HE should carry it all so I can enjoy the trips more.

**Southern Breeze** · 6th April 06, 01:50 PM

Whether or not the kilt straps are problem seems to be based on the pack used and how much weight is carried. I'm currently using a Gregory and on a 7-10 day trip carrry 30-35lbs. Thats in the summer and in the southern appalachians.