or your total gear wt is WAY too much. That's IF you know how to make another 30 lbs of other gear suffice, that is. Very few do, of course. With 4 lbs of back pack, 6 lbs of water, several pounds each of tools, shelter gear, extra clothing, etc, it leaves VERY little space or carryability for all the little things that everyone THINKS that they just HAVE to have. Funny, the Indians had almost none of that stuff, and they made it ok.
Bill Moreland had 11 lbs of other surival gear, for 13 years in the Idaho wilds. He never used a cabin, or an axe. The first 11 years, he had no gun, either. Snow gets 10 ft deep in Idaho, and it's cold as a witche's tit for half the year, then the bugs eat you alive for most of the rest of the year. THIRTEEN years of that, no tent, no sleeping bag, no water filter, no medical gear.
Bill Moreland had 11 lbs of other surival gear, for 13 years in the Idaho wilds. He never used a cabin, or an axe. The first 11 years, he had no gun, either. Snow gets 10 ft deep in Idaho, and it's cold as a witche's tit for half the year, then the bugs eat you alive for most of the rest of the year. THIRTEEN years of that, no tent, no sleeping bag, no water filter, no medical gear.