Reddit mentions of Granite Gear Air Zipsack Ultralight Zippered Pouch - 16L

Kinda depends on what you wanna spend you know? 12-13lbs base weight is perfectly reasonable tho.


Tent is a bit heavy, especially for a one person.

You could drop the extra undies

Puffy is a bit heavy too. Enlightened equipments apex puffy is great and super light. They have some on discount in their warehouse section of the website. Could be worth checking out.

Could probably drop the gloves. I’ve only ever worn gloves in Northern Washington in September.

Technically stuff like sunscreen, toothpaste, ect would be marked as consumable since their weights will vary with usage.

It’s likely you’ll want a little more water capacity. You can get two 2 liter platypus bags for roughly the same weight as the cnoc.

You could drop the ursack in favor of just whatever stuff sack. I used this one and really like it. Granite Gear Air Zipsack Ultralight Zippered Pouch - 16L https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003EMSDBY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_fjSPCbR0VE224

You could switch to a rechargeable headlamp like the Nitecore. Mine weighs 1oz. Haven’t actually used it on trail yet, but it seems great. Also seems to have a lot of good reviews.

No battery to charge your phone?

You could drop the journal and just write on your phone.

As far as books go generally you’re likely to be too tired to do much more than fall asleep with your face in your book. I’ve seen people reading on lunch breaks and stuff, but if you’re into being more social you may just end up hanging with friends while on breaks. There’s almost always books in hiker boxes tho, so you could maybe go that route.