Things I stopped carrying
- Base weight, 2020
- 11.4 kg
- Base weight, 2026
- 7.2 kg
- Cost of change
- Mostly nothing
Not an ultralight manifesto. Just a list of things that never earned their place.
Gone, no regrets
The camp chair. 900 g to sit slightly more comfortably for forty minutes a day. A folded sleeping mat against a rock does the same job.
The second pair of trousers. Wet trousers dry on your legs while walking, which is unpleasant for twenty minutes and irrelevant thereafter.
The big first-aid kit. Replaced by tape, painkillers, blister plasters and the honest admission that anything worse than that is an evacuation, not a treatment.
The book. I never once read it. Six trips, six books, zero pages.
Kept, despite the weight
A proper stove rather than a tablet burner: hot food matters more to my mood than 300 g matters to my knees. A full-size sit pad. And a spare pair of dry socks, which is the only luxury on this list that I would defend in an argument.