TSS 03 — How much should your pack weigh for a 7-day hunt?

The Hunt Backcountry Podcast

by Exo Mtn Gear

Sports, Sports:wilderness, Health & Fitness, Wilderness

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Steve and Mark answer a listener question about how much a pack should weigh for a 6-7 day hunt. They also discuss the differences between "base" pack weight and actual pack weight at the trailhead, how to shave weight from your pack, the balance of weight/comfort, and more. Oh, and they have a follow-up on yesterday's discussion regarding boots. Connect with us and let us know what you want to discuss on future TSS episodes by emailing [email protected]. What does "TSS" stand for? The Supplemental Show? The Shutdown Show? The Stopgap Show? We're not sure, but we will be using the TSS episode name for future episodes are NOT our "normal" episodes that focus 100% on backcountry hunting.

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0:00.0	Steve morning. Happy Friday. Oh come on. You're messing with slow man. You're making too much noise.
0:12.0	Retake. Retake. Retake. Steve, happy Friday. How's it going bud?
0:18.8	A fantastic man. How you doing? It's good. It's weird that it's Friday because you kind of like
0:24.3	these days I'm losing track of what day it is. Yeah, yeah, working from home here is, uh,
0:31.2	yeah, it's just like you're like being on summer vacation or something. The day's kind of all
0:35.1	meld together. Yeah, podcasts and every day totally things are different man.
0:40.5	Um, yeah, we just wanted to get back on again follow up on yesterday a little bit. Steve,
0:46.4	you want to hit some more boot talk. Um, so we'll get to that answer some listener questions.
0:51.2	Um, you guys keep the feedback coming. We appreciate it. Again, if you have questions,
0:55.6	something you want us to tackle would be happy to chat about it. Uh, we'll just dive over it
1:00.4	and Steve, a question we got recently is what would your goal weight be for a six to seven day hunt
1:06.8	and do you include water weight when you talk about pack weight? So first off there. Uh, yeah,
1:13.8	so whenever I talk about pack weights, uh, food and water are left out because those are the only two
1:19.5	things that, um, are variable, they change throughout the duration of a hunt, you know, water
1:24.6	changes, minute by minute food changes, you know, you're going to drop by pound and a half every day
1:29.1	you're out there. Um, and so those ones I always leave out and I always, I also leave out with weapon.
1:35.3	Um, I just, you know, that's, it's typically like a bow. It's going to be in my hand. Uh, it's not
1:42.0	something that I really account for because in some guys could have, um, you know, a bow could
1:46.8	vary so much and weight that is don't think it makes sense to, um, to put in there. Guys could have a
1:52.4	seven pound rifle or a 12 pound rifle and probably everywhere in between that people pack out
1:57.1	there in the woods. So when I'm talking about weight, it's just my gear, right? The gear that I'm
2:03.1	taking with me, um, the everything that's inside the pack outside of food and water. Makes sense.
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