Mon 10 Sep, 2012 11:05 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 7:17 am
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 7:46 am
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:30 am
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:32 am
Franco wrote:There was a thread at BPL where someone quoted a study where the suggested maximum (regular use) weight was the weight you can hold standing one one leg within 20% less of the time you can without.
so if I understood the idea correctly , if you can stand on one leg for 3 minutes withou a pack you should be able to stand on one leg with your full pack for at least 2:20 .
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:36 am
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:57 am
phan_TOM wrote:..... others, like guides in the mountains chaperoning clients or doing food drops, can run up mountains all day long with 40kg and smile all the way.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:59 am
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 9:47 am
Miyata610 wrote:LOL. I wish!
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 9:54 am
phan_TOM wrote: No doubt some people would struggle with that much weight and others, like guides in the mountains chaperoning clients or doing food drops, can run up mountains all day long with 40kg and smile all the way.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 10:06 am
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 11:22 am
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 11:29 am
phan_TOM wrote:
And yes Tony, I agree, taking only what's necessary is a good philosophy, as long as you don't end up being 'stupid light'
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 2:47 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 3:11 pm
Explorer_Sam wrote:When we were in Anaconda Bendigo, a young man there that was helping me to fit a pack suggested that you should have no more than 7 kg in your pack on a three day walk.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 4:40 pm
Explorer_Sam wrote:suggested that you should have no more than 7 kg in your pack on a three day walk.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 5:01 pm
Gusto wrote:The more experience you'll get in the Bush, the less experienced some sales people appear.
Gusto wrote:I was in a shop last year that told me that anything other than a freestanding tent was '$h!7'. He was quite forceful about his opinion, and was even prepared to back his opinion by stating how many nights he'd sleep in a tent a year. I subsequently didn't really want to engage in conversation with him about tents as he was rather dogmatic. I did tell him that I was used to sleeping under a tarp with no poles whatsoever, so I felt that I could handle the complexities of a tunnel tent. Ultimately I didn't but a tent from this shop.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 6:24 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 6:35 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 6:40 pm
Tony wrote:To me stupid heavy is carrying 1 gram more than you have to.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 6:54 pm
north-north-west wrote:Tony wrote: There's more to walking than speed and weight.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 6:56 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 7:04 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 7:11 pm
north-north-west wrote:Tony wrote:To me stupid heavy is carrying 1 gram more than you have to.
The trouble is, sometimes you can't know what you will definitely need until you're out there needing it.
There's very little in my kit that doesn't get used every walk - some of the 1st aid gear & the PLB. (I am, of course, excluding my photographic equipment.) With the camera gear, I think my regular winter kit weighs in at about 17kg. I could reduce that to around 12kg if I left the camera gear at home. But I'd regret it. There's more to walking than speed and weight.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 7:21 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 7:44 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 7:51 pm
north-north-west wrote:The trouble is, sometimes you can't know what you will definitely need until you're out there needing it.
There's more to walking than speed and weight.
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 8:11 pm
Tue 11 Sep, 2012 10:22 pm
doogs wrote:Depends on the individual, anything from 15-50kg I'd guess. Personally on the trips I generally do 25kg is a lot, but on well formed tracks such as the OLT a coupla 6 packs could easily be added
Wed 12 Sep, 2012 12:09 am
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