all right we have all been there. carrying a heavy pack on a backpacking
trip stick around grab a coffee I'm gonna
give you three easy ways to get the weight down in that pack if you've never
been to my channel before walking them out of your doors I'm Maddie
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make sure you got your coffee like I said we're talking three ways to lower
the weight in your backpack for your backpacking trips let's get into it so
the first thing that you need to look at doing to help you save weight is just do
a catalog of all your gear I'm not going out and I'm not trying to endorse these
guys I'm not sponsored by these guys or anything I just I use lighter paccom and
that's what I see a lot of other people use so that's just what I'm gonna
reference but like if doing it up on your own in like an Excel spreadsheet or
whatever works better for you and you're more comfortable with that suite if
you're write it down on a piece of paper kind of person do it that way also but
what I suggest doing is take your pack take all of your gear that you would
carry on a backpacking trip don't include few food don't include the
weight of water but like you know you take your water bottles everything like
that and like weigh everything weight every single piece of gear
individually so take your cook kit weight your pot weigh your stove weigh
your spork weight everything individually write it all down that way
you've got to listen you can see where your weight is for every single piece in
your backpack I'll put a link to lighter pack column down below I'll put a link
to my lighter pack list as well so you gotta take a look at my gear see what
I'm using for gear if that ain't for you at all that'll be
there for you so once you've got everything weighed out in your pack you
might be like me when I first did it and I looked and I was like holy crap I have
that much weight in this this weighs this much once you've got that once
you've got that gearless written down you know you you see where all your
weight is you know and you kind of see how everything really does add up you
might see like I did you see all the little tiny things that you carry that
really add up how did good friend once tell me that
bounces equal pounds and pounds equal pain and it's it's totally true gear is
cataloged now we're jumping into number two number two is new gear purchases and
no I'm not I'm not saying like break the bank right now and just rush out to buy
a whole new load out of gear like I mean if you want to and you've got the funds
to do that all the power to you and go for it if you're like me I kind of have
to break my gear picks down like maybe one or two decent purchases per year so
I yeah I kind of got to be really smart about what I pick up so that's what
we're going with with number two is smart gear choices really does tie in
with number one because you've got your catalogue list of the gear you've
already got and say like myself last year my big gear purchased last year was
my new pack if you can see it hanging over my shoulder here my Osprey EXO's 58
um when I went and bought a new pack I had already gotten my list of gear so I
knew kind of what my weight was gonna be at and I was low enough that I didn't
need the load hauling capabilities of one of the more bigger burly packs so I
was able to go with the Osprey EXO's which in itself cut about 3 pounds out
of my backpacking kit but even if you're not in the market for a new pack say
like myself this year one of my big gear pickups this year was uh inside here a
new Under quilt which not gonna show off just yet
but if you're interested in seeing that brand-new
20 degree custom Specter under quilt from Little Shop of hammocks let me know
the comments down below if that's something interests you if you guys want
to see some more hammock stuff we got some more hammock stuff coming up the
third thing to help lower the weight in our backpacking kids and it doesn't have
a like it doesn't it doesn't definitely go in this order this one is probably
gonna happen as soon as you start making your list is gear redundancy and when I
say that when I said catalogue are your gear and I said like break everything
down like honestly take it to the take it to the extent of like weighing out
stuff like your stuff sacks when I got rid of stuff sacks in my pack I honestly
shaved off a pound the advantage of getting rid of stuff sacks is for stuff
like this where you've got your brand new underquilt in the stuff sack you've
got let's not pretend this is now Dean let's say this is your I don't know
clothes bag or something write stuff down into a nice little compression sack
they break down into nice little gear tubes and you end up with all this
wasted space in your pack you get rid of the stuff sacks this packs down and it
fills out all those little gaps in your pack when I load my pack I'm not gonna
lie like I honestly like I put everything into that trash compactor bag
and I start stuffing it down and then like I honestly get up and I like stand
in my pack and I just stand on my trash compacter bag squish everything down
everything pack sounds super small it enabled me to actually go to a smaller
pack because once I got rid of the stuff sacks and I started using up all that
wasted space in my pack from like all those gaps with like just a little like
gear tubes everywhere I was able to like shrink my gear down go to a smaller pack
the new pack is lighter they all work together so yeah those are my three tips
to help you lighten up your backpacking loadout so hopefully they helped you
guys out hopefully that helped you guys start
shaping those pounds off your back starting drilling your time on the trail
a little more if that helps you guys out let me know in the comment section down
below you got any questions at all you know if
I if I missed something on one of these tips that you want a little more
clarification on or a little bit more in-depth on let me know in the comment
section down below I'd love to help you guys out as always I'm Madi thank you
guys so much for watching I'll see you guys on the next one