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What is considered lightweight for a week of trekking?
5kg baseweight (everything non-consumable, including your backpack, minus worn clothes)
this was enough for me to do a 28 day alpine hike with gaps between food pickup of up to 10days.
2.5kg is ultralight -
The most I carried on my 25 ish day hike was about 16kg (including water) and that felt tough. Definitely check out what food you'll need to carry and what you can just re-stock on, makes a huge difference. I relied on dehydrated food (most of it surprisingly tasty) as we were using posted resupplies - no shops available.
platypus
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What is considered lightweight for a week of trekking?
I’m doing C2C in August - some camping, some hosteling. I anticipate having less than 15kg in my pack on a daily basis but I’ve not done much research so far on how much we can rely on shops being open and how much food we’ll need to carry.
I’ve done almost zero walking with my full rucksack yet. I probably need to start factoring that in.