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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.What things really weigh
Thu 01 Jul, 2010 11:39 pm
Hi All
It has cropped up a few times the weight of things and especially what they weight after the end of the trip. I.e. tent with condensation or a large lump of ice, a wet pack, etc. The pack is never as light at the end of the trip as what it should have been given the food eaten and liquids consumed.
Any way I thought I would weight my boots after the last wettish trip. Now minus the mud after a quick scrub they tipped the scales at over 1500 grams each. Many days later of drying out and they came down to 1150 grams or less each. Given the amount of mud removed the 1500 grams would have been on the light side compared to the walking weight. Makes you wonder if spending a fortune to save 100 grams is really worth the trade-offs.
Cheers Brett
It has cropped up a few times the weight of things and especially what they weight after the end of the trip. I.e. tent with condensation or a large lump of ice, a wet pack, etc. The pack is never as light at the end of the trip as what it should have been given the food eaten and liquids consumed.
Any way I thought I would weight my boots after the last wettish trip. Now minus the mud after a quick scrub they tipped the scales at over 1500 grams each. Many days later of drying out and they came down to 1150 grams or less each. Given the amount of mud removed the 1500 grams would have been on the light side compared to the walking weight. Makes you wonder if spending a fortune to save 100 grams is really worth the trade-offs.
Cheers Brett
Re: What things really weigh
Fri 02 Jul, 2010 6:39 am
ooo yes, you need some runners!!
Re: What things really weigh
Fri 02 Jul, 2010 8:17 am
Hi Nuts
Are they the Zamberland full leather high cut with tractor treads sort you wear?
Cheers Brett
Are they the Zamberland full leather high cut with tractor treads sort you wear?
Cheers Brett
Re: What things really weigh
Fri 02 Jul, 2010 10:27 am
har... hey I actually did have some zamberlan runners... made the mistake of leaving them on the verandah 
Re: What things really weigh
Fri 02 Jul, 2010 2:17 pm
Nuts wrote:har... hey I actually did have some zamberlan runners... made the mistake of leaving them on the verandah
So I take they took a runner
Now boots, they would have stayed loyal or given the new owners hours of hell 
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