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If you are new to this area then welcome - Please remember that although the same ultralight philosophy can be used in all environments that the specific gear and skill required will vary greatly. It is very dangerous to assume that you can just copy someone else's gear list, but you are encouraged to ask questions, learn and start reducing the pack weight and enjoying the freedom that comes.

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Base pack backpacking the mass of the backpack and the gear inside - not including consumables such as food, water and fuel
light backpacking base weight less than 9.1kg
ultralight backpacking base weight less than 4.5kg
super-ultralight backpacking base weight less than 2.3kg
extreme-ultralight backpacking base weight less than 1.4kg
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First aid kit

Postby Bill P » Sat 26 Feb, 2022 4:34 pm

I’ve started to get serious about weight reduction of my first aid/repair kit . It was 570 grams. But with my new titanium tweezers, I’m down to 567grams already!
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Re: First aid kit

Postby JohnnoMcJohnno » Sat 26 Feb, 2022 5:25 pm

Good work Bill. Make sure you weigh the different brands of bandaids too. I saved 3g going from Bandaid Waterproof tough strips to Elastoplast water-resistant plastic strips.
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Re: First aid kit

Postby ChrisJHC » Sat 26 Feb, 2022 5:54 pm

JohnnoMcJohnno wrote:Good work Bill. Make sure you weigh the different brands of bandaids too. I saved 3g going from Bandaid Waterproof tough strips to Elastoplast water-resistant plastic strips.
Not sure if this was tongue in cheek (like the OP), but I’d go for performance over weight.
Some of the plastic band-aids are rubbish.
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Re: First aid kit

Postby north-north-west » Sat 26 Feb, 2022 7:27 pm

Elastoplast used to be good, but these days they're rubbish. Bandaid Tough all the way for me, and bugger the weight.
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Re: First aid kit

Postby Warin » Sat 26 Feb, 2022 7:38 pm

Bill P wrote:I’ve started to get serious about weight reduction of my first aid/repair kit . It was 570 grams. But with my new titanium tweezers, I’m down to 567grams already!


Oh dear, :twisted:

Swiss army knife small tweezers (they come in two sizes) weigh 0.80 grams on my scale. Victorinox is the brand.

--------------- I do wonder if I have been red flagged with weight scales that go down that far. These go to a 500.00 gram max.
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Re: First aid kit

Postby ribuck » Sun 27 Feb, 2022 1:41 am

Warin wrote::Swiss army knife small tweezers (they come in two sizes) weigh 0.80 grams on my scale.

Yes, but did you ever manage to do anything useful with them? They are so flexible and blunt as to be useless. If tweezers can't pull out a splinter, what's the point taking them?
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Re: First aid kit

Postby Warin » Sun 27 Feb, 2022 9:24 am

ribuck wrote:
Warin wrote::Swiss army knife small tweezers (they come in two sizes) weigh 0.80 grams on my scale.

Yes, but did you ever manage to do anything useful with them? They are so flexible and blunt as to be useless. If tweezers can't pull out a splinter, what's the point taking them?


:?: I have managed to pull out splinters with them... more than once.
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Re: First aid kit

Postby north-north-west » Sun 27 Feb, 2022 11:49 am

ribuck wrote:
Warin wrote::Swiss army knife small tweezers (they come in two sizes) weigh 0.80 grams on my scale.

Yes, but did you ever manage to do anything useful with them? They are so flexible and blunt as to be useless. If tweezers can't pull out a splinter, what's the point taking them?


I've removed splinters, thorns, glass ... they're adequate for minor problems.
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