north-north-west wrote:Seems excessive. Nor is it anything I've heard of people doing. A bivy bag as a back-up, perhaps, but no more than that.
It's not like it's technical diving; two of everything is carrying caution a bit too far.
Tortoise wrote:If there's a next time it will hopefully look something like this:
7 days with bigger side trips
Me (about 52kg) with about 12 kg.
RonK wrote:Tortoise wrote:If there's a next time it will hopefully look something like this:
7 days with bigger side trips
Me (about 52kg) with about 12 kg.
hehe - well they do say Tortoise are slow...![]()
Solo on my second crossing and it only took me three OLT's to get there with my load...
Tortoise wrote:RonK wrote:Tortoise wrote:If there's a next time it will hopefully look something like this:
7 days with bigger side trips
Me (about 52kg) with about 12 kg.
hehe - well they do say Tortoise are slow...![]()
Solo on my second crossing and it only took me three OLT's to get there with my load...
Touché, RonK! I'd been toying with going lighter for a good while. But the clincher was when I found myself turned turtle (so to speak) with a 20+kg pack, and a friend picked it up and said, "Tortoise, you have to do something about this weight!"
Actually I forgot to put in the unknown number of people i my last postbut I do enjoy some solo trips, and it only took 32 years of bushwalking to get there.
Tortoise wrote:
If there's a next time it will hopefully look something like this:
7 days with bigger side trips
Me (about 52kg) with about 12 kg.
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