Ultralight hikers, you have a problem

>use women's sized sleeping pad
>consume pureed baby food
>clean with baby wipes
>sleep on infant-sized pillow
How far are you going to take this?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Baby wipes are actually pretty awesome, I'm surprised UL would have them.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Oh I'm sure they pre-squeeze them to remove the excess water weight.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Never understood this shit, nor do I understand the aerodynamic cyclists.
        >yeah bro let's exercise except make it as easy as possible
        No.

        >How far are you going to take this?
        Further and more comfortably than you.

        Skurka calls it “stupid light” when people begin to risk their safety or seriously impact their comfort (to where it interferes with restful, recuperative sleep). Anyone claiming they sleep fine in a 1/8” ccf pad is probably lying, just like anyone saying they’ve broken multiple SmartWater bottles.

        ngl tbh senpai I'm convinced if ultralighters are concerned about an ounce here and there they would be better off putting down the macdonalds instead of buying 400 dollar nano carbon gigasilk threads cause they're sweating the weight of their shoelaces.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          This.
          No doubt they start their hike by mutual masturbation, both literally, and about the amount of weight they saved.
          >yet no doubt they swallow

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            UL'ers are the type of gay that is rightfully called a homosexual.
            Just because you're gay doesn't mean you have to be a gay.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Indeed. Certainly recommend them for a "final wipe".

      • 11 months ago
        he/her/they

        Water bottle > anus > clean
        Simple as

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Poop backsprays into your bottle
          >youre now a coprophagiagay
          I cannot risk this, I just cannot.

          • 11 months ago
            he/her/they

            >he doesn't have a dedicated bum bottle
            Do you even PrepHole?

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why use a sleeping pad? Couldn't you just make a shelter out of brush and twigs and then take it apart in the morning?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      ultralighters tend to be long distance hikers focused on maximizing how many miles+hours they hike in a day and minimizing how long they spend at camp.

      Never understood this shit, nor do I understand the aerodynamic cyclists.
      >yeah bro let's exercise except make it as easy as possible
      No.

      ultralighters hike 2-3x as many miles per day as you would. your most intense hike of your life is average to me. i find that people who don't 'get it' tend to live in flat regions and moderate climates where nothing around you really necessitates geargayging. fair enough.

      [...]

      It will depend greatly on your physical strength and physical fitness.

      Not everyone can carry 50 lbs or more for 30 miles in a single day. Maybe with a lighter load, but hauling a giant pack let alone a rifle with magazines and body armor and pouches is hard work.

      There are certain physical feats that require certain physical standards. Not everyone has the same standard for what is difficult or heavy, what is a fast pace or a slow one. These things become much more important when you are hiking, camping, hunting, or just working in a group.

      >It will depend greatly on your physical strength and physical fitness.
      true
      but its not always a DYEL thing
      i suffered a major spinal injury and i was told i'd never be able to carry a pack again. thanks to ultralight Black folk, i can now mountain climb again, my doctor even approves. i'm an ancientgay. 20 years ago with the gear available i wouldn't have been able to. simple as.

      also here's something you're not getting:
      the first 10-20 pounds you drop, you don't lose out on any quality of life or even durability with your gear. the gear is all the same. it just costs more because you're buying titanium not steel and things like that. how much "performance" am i really missing out on because my spoon isn't steel?
      you're weighing the conversation like there is some inherent advantage or benefit to heavier gear. that's just flat out wrong. there's cases where its definitely true but certainly not always. its very easy to drop weight without missing a single thing.
      i bet i can shave 5-10 pounds off your pack just by meal planning better and teaching you how to read nutrition labels. and you'll eat better, more refreshing and energizing foods than you did before.
      the moronation is when people keep trying to push it farther and sacrifice QOL massively to shave fractions of a gram.
      much like anything, with ultralight, don't go full moron.
      if you have a sane mentality about ultralight, the only argument that can be made against it is that the gear is too expensive for some people. fair enough.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        See the thing is though, not everyone is an UL moron because they don't want to walk 10000 miles in a week or whatever. Here's a list of PrepHole activities which necessitate heavier loads
        >Outdoor photography
        >SAR
        >Bushcraft (inb4 "not real PrepHole)
        >Rucking
        >Luxury camping
        >Rock climbing approaches
        >Backwoods hunting/fishing
        >Canyoneering
        >Mars exploration (deep-desert expeditions)
        >Mountaineering/alpine skiing
        Your definition of PrepHole is not other people's definitions of PrepHole. The reason why people hate ULtards is cause y'all assume everyone wants to trail-run the PCT in a week instead of enjoying the outdoors in their own way. And frankly, frick ULtards and geargays for their consoomerist tendencies. For every yard of DCF and high-tec waterproof down rain jackets you stuff into your pack, that's another 5 tons of CO2 in the atmosphere and more contribution to the shitty death of all the outdoors.
        Also, just as a personal thing, some of us have joint or ligament problems and need those "creature comforts" just to complete a hike. I've slept on hard clay with nothing but a blanket and a tarp underneath me and that is the most pain I've ever experienced after waking up in my entire life. I'll keep my sleep pad + foam combo, tyvm

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Mountaineering/alpine skiing
          If I could drop 15 pounds from my ski touring loadout without taking out a small loan I would do it in a goddamn heartbeat. Those steep couloir bootpacks are brutal, and those long flat approaches take its toll on me. Just because I need the gear doesn’t mean I want to be heavier.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          You had me until the climate rant
          Imma buy 3 brand new pfc-laden goretex shells just to spite and nullify your effort

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          you listed a whole bunch of activities that highly benefit from ultralighting, where lighter weight gear is the current trend everyone is moving towards.
          outdoor photography has to be the #1 reason people get into ultralight. camera gear is heavy, so bringing less camping gear makes sense.
          SAR isn't recreation.
          Bushcrafting, Cabins, Homesteading it makes sense to not ultralight because you're 3 miles from the parking lot or hauling gear somewhere and permanently leaving it there. That's not talking down on it that's simple min/maxing, the same mentality as ultralighters applied differently.
          Rucking is an exercise thing. You're purposely weighing yourself down. I do it on all my day hikes with extra bottles of water. Its not something you'd ever do when trying to do serious hiking.
          Nobody has ever suggested ultralighting when you car camp or take your girlfriend 5 miles from the parking lot.
          Ultralight gear is the big thing in rock climbing right now. Have you gone rock climbing recenly? Everyone counts grams now. Turns out not having to haul so much heavy shit out is nice.
          Canyoneering same deal.
          Nobody has ever suggested ultralighting for hunting. Why would I not ultralight when fishing?
          Long term travel in the desert there is nothing but advantages from ultralighting. Each gram less shit you carry is a gram more water.
          Have you missed the last ~40 years of mountaineering? The siege style multi camp approach has been losing popularity and a lot of summits can be done without these days because gear is so much lighter and better. This is sort of what ultralighting grew out of and how it originated.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Some do this with a eigth inch foam over top. Duff is not reliably available in burn zones, alpines, meadows, or deserts.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Never understood this shit, nor do I understand the aerodynamic cyclists.
    >yeah bro let's exercise except make it as easy as possible
    No.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Some of us enjoy going out because we like the outdoors.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I thought the philosophy for ultra light was when backpacking, the faster you are, the more likely you are to complete a route. For instance, if I wanted to hike the PCT, and could do it a weeks faster in ultralight, I should because I'm way more likely to complete it

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        All these morons have never done a through hike anon. They think it's totally valid to take an Alice pack with a canvas tent and wool blanket 3000 miles and that would be just fine on your body and knees compared to the dude with 6 kilos of base weight. They don't know shit. You don't have to sleep under a tarp on a piece of plastic but it sure as frick makes sense to be bringing the lightest gear you can stomach the price tag on and cutting out moronic unnecessary shit. They are just /in/ larpers and feel free to ignore them.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          through hiking is a larp. a series of walks from grocery store to grocery store. through hikers are rich tramps. glam tramping homosexuals.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >thinks the only thru hikes are the AT and the PCT
            You poor, poor moron.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              The CDT is the only one in the US with any significant remoteness. Trans Canada qualifies as well.

              Every single one in Europe doesn't get more than a days walk from a town. The Ice Age trail is basically walking along snowmobile trails dotted with bars. The AZ trail you can die on just due to heat, and outside the cities the hotels are dives, but come on.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >The CDT is the only one in the US with any significant remoteness
                You got called a moron and doubled down. Do you think the big three hikes are the only ones?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The post you replied to mention thru hikes other than the big 3, and you are calling the poster a moron?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            This is correct for most thru hikes.

            The CDT has some stretches that require several days of actual camping in the wilderness, but all the rest are all town to town. Hikers still complain
            >oh no I missed the trail magic setup handing out free burritos and beer!
            >oh no the motel I stayed in last night wasn't very clean!
            >lol my mom didn't include as many Twizzlers in my supply drop as she did in the one 100 miles ago.
            >there was a spider in the shelter I slept in last night but the 60 other hikers there with me helped chase it out.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            The CDT is the only one in the US with any significant remoteness. Trans Canada qualifies as well.

            Every single one in Europe doesn't get more than a days walk from a town. The Ice Age trail is basically walking along snowmobile trails dotted with bars. The AZ trail you can die on just due to heat, and outside the cities the hotels are dives, but come on.

            kinda true but if you've ever done it before you know its completely within your power to skip the towns and either avoid them or pass through.
            if you want true remoteness in north america look into section hike distance stuff. there's an absurd abundance of choices in that ~600 mile length range. i grew up in the yukon and i can highly recommend the reservations around here. also the northwest territories as a whole. truly the middle of nowhere.

          • 11 months ago
            5'10 245lbs mountain of a man

            Wow you mean you have to find a place to restock on food from time to time and don't live off the land like your ebin PrepHole fantasy?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >through hikers are rich tramps

            Through hiking is actually pretty much the cheapest activity you can do. Your expenses are food and a budget motel room once a week.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bro you're moronic, being efficient in the gear you use allows you to perform better, why is that hard to comprehend? Cyclists and ULgays do it because they can go faster and for longer than they would otherwise be able to, this is a fact and not open to discussion. Anyone that has hiked any significant distance in a day, 30+ miles, knows how much weight impairs your progression.
      There are obviously levels to this, at some point, which depends from person to person, carrying 5lb more might not make to much of a difference but 10!or 15 and upwards definitely do.

      The problem with UL is not the goal of going light, the problem is ULgays jerking off trying to prove how light they can go and how much of cooonsumer and brand obsessed prostitutes they are.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        All these morons have never done a through hike anon. They think it's totally valid to take an Alice pack with a canvas tent and wool blanket 3000 miles and that would be just fine on your body and knees compared to the dude with 6 kilos of base weight. They don't know shit. You don't have to sleep under a tarp on a piece of plastic but it sure as frick makes sense to be bringing the lightest gear you can stomach the price tag on and cutting out moronic unnecessary shit. They are just /in/ larpers and feel free to ignore them.

        It will depend greatly on your physical strength and physical fitness.

        Not everyone can carry 50 lbs or more for 30 miles in a single day. Maybe with a lighter load, but hauling a giant pack let alone a rifle with magazines and body armor and pouches is hard work.

        There are certain physical feats that require certain physical standards. Not everyone has the same standard for what is difficult or heavy, what is a fast pace or a slow one. These things become much more important when you are hiking, camping, hunting, or just working in a group.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sure, but it doesn't matter who you are or what you are doing, if you throw away dumb shit you don't need, get a smaller pack and lighter gear, it becomes easier to do the same work and you can go longer and further for the same amount of effort you were putting in before so why would you not? You don't even have to spend stupid money to go lightweight, there is plenty of mid price gear that is still suitably light without spending six hundy on a tent.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I completed an ironman with blue jeans and a shitty walmart mountain bike that was badly unserviced

        Did not train either

        Maybe grow a pair?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Sure you did. Listen here bucko, it doesn't matter how great you're and what you're able to achieve under shitty circumstances, if you go lighter you'll perform better and spend fewer calories. End of discussion.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Literally wrong, without weight you walk using a different technique. You try to walk with a weightless technique while using weight. It's your own fault.

            It's not faster, it's a technique that you only use without extra weight. If you try with weight, you slow down. There is a weighted technique that sucks without weight but is perfect for weight.

            I will be at camp at the exact same time, with tons of stuff and I will enjoy my time and you wont. You are inferior.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >durr I have le secret technique that no 8000+ mile thru hiker knows about

              Just frick off already fatty

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Literally just walk with your hips you ankle swinging moron. The length of your legs makes your stride with almost zero fricking energy.

                I can walk indefinitely with my entire body weight. I have no limit to this. Any man(no manlets) should be able to do this. This is basic.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Take your meds. Your trolling for yous so frick off.

              >Fricking f1 gays trying to save weight off their cars when they could keep adding weight and go just as fast with the same energy expenditure

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I will now explain your lack of intelligence to you.

                My statements refer to the physiology of my body is relation to passive movement. I DO have a predictabls amount of ground I can travel relying on the shape of my bones rather than my muscles.

                If I wanted 40 miles, you are right I would need to go lighter weight because this is NOT a passive speed and therefore I am recruiting totally different muscle groups in totally different frequencies.

                I can carry 175lbs on my back for 30 miles every day indefinitely. To bump this to 40 miles I would have to drop to sub 45lbs almost immediately.

                There are body mechanics that you can manipulate for a lot of gain. If you do not even know how to walk with your hips rather than your ankles do not speak to me.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Post your hiking data then.
                You won't.

                >Coming to a slow board to troll
                Sad.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >hiking data

                Unfortunately I am not a homosexual that keeps track of these types of things

                Literally all of my friends (except the 5'3 one) cover ground just as smoothly as me. You are a broken wimp.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I accept your conceding.
                Bye.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Thank you for accepting that humans can indefinetely carry their bodyweight on their backs given the speed does not exceed their physiologically passive pace. For many people this is upwards of 30 miles.

                https://i.imgur.com/X8nrLv9.gif

                >I will now explain your lack of intelligence to you.

                Verification not required.

                Female.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why don't endurance athletes....like marathon runners or sprinters or cyclists or swimmers...carry body weight anvils during competition?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                See

                I will now explain your lack of intelligence to you.

                My statements refer to the physiology of my body is relation to passive movement. I DO have a predictabls amount of ground I can travel relying on the shape of my bones rather than my muscles.

                If I wanted 40 miles, you are right I would need to go lighter weight because this is NOT a passive speed and therefore I am recruiting totally different muscle groups in totally different frequencies.

                I can carry 175lbs on my back for 30 miles every day indefinitely. To bump this to 40 miles I would have to drop to sub 45lbs almost immediately.

                There are body mechanics that you can manipulate for a lot of gain. If you do not even know how to walk with your hips rather than your ankles do not speak to me.

                They are using their muscles in a completely different way, even to jog or speedwalk is far too much energy for this technique. :

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why don't endurance athletes....like marathon runners or sprinters or cyclists or swimmers...carry body weight anvils during competition?

                There is no athletic competition where you are relying on hip pivot rather than explosive force, this does however allow you to move indefinitely. Even 200 mile races are a totally different degree of energy expenditure.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sure there are. FKTs on hikes are a type of competition. Why don't people who chase FKTs carry anvils?

                Why don't rock climbers? They do very few explosive moves, it is mostly very controlled slow movement.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                30 miles a day is as much as anybody should desire, and it's literally not limited by weight.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Your claim now is that everyone who set out to complete a self-supported FTK did it wrong, as they could have carried massive packs with extremely heavy ground pads and a fresh change of clothes everyday but they don’t know how to walk so they had to suffer with very lightweight packs.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ok.

                So in your opinion, due to a change in the way the muscles are being used the physics if complete different such that the relationship between energy and work completely inverts?

                Presumably the physics you reference cease to apply around race walking speeds. Maybe even FKT speeds for hiking?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yes anon people setting trail records are doing it athletically and will probably just be naked while they do it too.

                30 miles however is double what any hiker having fun would walk in a day, and is completely within your passive capacity at extremely high weights.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                30 miles a day is as much as anybody should desire, and it's literally not limited by weight.

                Do you carry an anvil while hiking?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I will now explain your lack of intelligence to you.

                Verification not required.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >nor do I understand the aerodynamic cyclists.
      >yeah bro let's exercise except make it as easy as possible
      Because it's not simply exercise, there's a performance goal of being as fast as possible, not as fast as possible with limitations. Even with aerodynamics and lightweight bike, you're pushing yourself to the limits to shave of the minutes and seconds.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >nor do I understand the aerodynamic cyclists
      Have you ever done it? Shit feels amazing. The goal here isn't for it to be easier, the goal is for you to be faster and/or go farther.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        What you mean is:
        >as you cycle more, it doesn't get easier
        >you just so faster and further

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Greg, is that you?

          • 11 months ago
            he/her/they

            No, I'm just troling pol...too much work to take it off between posts.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >No, I'm just troling pol.
              no you're just an idiot, trolling has to be funny, you're just another moron shitting up the board.

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >you're not a troll, you're an idiot
                (you)s pay the same, Bob, they pay the same

          • 11 months ago
            he/her/they

            Also, are you looking for Gary?

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    cutting their junk off, reduces the weight directly and the hormone change reduces muscle mass.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >How far are you going to take this?
    Further and more comfortably than you.

    Skurka calls it “stupid light” when people begin to risk their safety or seriously impact their comfort (to where it interferes with restful, recuperative sleep). Anyone claiming they sleep fine in a 1/8” ccf pad is probably lying, just like anyone saying they’ve broken multiple SmartWater bottles.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah I do it because it just makes walking more comfortable. In an ideal world I could walk around with just the stuff I can put in my pockets, but I need a good place to sleep, stuff to eat, and water to drink.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ive broken Nalgene bottles

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Anyone claiming they sleep fine in a 1/8” ccf pad is probably lying
      I've slept in just a bivvy bag on the forest floor. It's not that bad.

    • 11 months ago
      he/her/they

      >can't sleep on anything but a mattress
      What's wrong with sleeping on a tarp on top of dirt?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        It interferes with restful, recuperative sleep. If not, then why do you sleep on a bed at home instead of a yoga mat?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I sleep best on a hard surface.
          Dirt is plenty soft.
          But not doubt not as soft as you and your hands.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >If not, then why do you sleep on a bed at home instead of a yoga mat?
          i do actually, ive slept on the floor since i was in my early twenties and realized living a cushioned life is the reason why modern society is so shit

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        here's the real answer since anon got it wrong somehow:
        a tarp has no insulative value and the ground sucks the heat out of you at night more than anything. having a barrier between you and the ground is just as important to staying warm as your sleeping bag is, if not more-so. the amount of insulation needed depends on your comfort level and how cold it is outside.
        when its hot outside you can sleep on nothing. most people who do this carry a super thin sheet of 1/8in foam just so twigs and shit don't dig into your back like a more effective version of the tarp in that situation. lighter weight too.
        if you replace the word 'tarp' with 'ccf pad' though, then the answer is because getting good sleep is very important if you're spending long durations of time in the woods traveling long distances. for a night or two they're just glamping. nothing wrong with some creature comforts. especially if you already own the pad because you need it on longer trips.
        about 15% of long distance backpackers prefer to just sleep on a piece of foam, i'm one of them, i also sleep on the floor when i check into hotels YMMV with that.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I can understand the insulative thing.
          That's about it.
          But if you want to go super light, easy enough to use leaves with a tarp.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            leaves aren't very insulative.
            i live in the kind of place where if night comes and you're not prepared you can easily die.
            you're likely on your first year of backpacking if you're asking, or live on a tropical island, or something. you're not smarter than every single person who came before you since the 1990's. i promise.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >easily die
              I'm from Saskatchewan, plenty of cases where someone's car breaks down, they carve out a snow bank and sleep, they are perfectly fine.
              Snow insulates well.
              For a wet night near freezing, this is the most challenging a tarp will keep you dry.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                sure but the boot trail by my house gets 1-2 deaths every year. tourists don't know how to handle prolonged rain and cold.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That, and they're probably extra skinny (no metabolism).
                Interesting...

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                he's talking about using a tarp as a ground mat/sleeping pad, not pitching it. you're right but anon's post wasn't talking about pitching a tarp.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >he has never rolled up in a tarp to protect from above and below

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                are you moronic, illiterate, or just insufferable?
                scroll up. read the conversation you're replying to. anon specifically mentioned using the tarp as only a ground pad with no mention of pitching it. also describes rolling it up in leaves.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                who the frick carries a tarp that big?
                would the extra tarp material required to do this really weigh much less than a sleeping pad?
                what the frick are you even talking about? have you gone backpacking before?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >who the frick carries a tarp that big?
                anybody who carries a rain poncho

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >tarp no good
                Tarp can be used to protect against wind and rain for you and your bags.
                >size/weight
                A 15 foot by 15 15 tarp, heavy duty, will weigh about 3 pounds, and take the space of a laptop.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >who the frick carries a tarp that big?
                anybody who carries a rain poncho

                >A 15 foot by 15 15 tarp, heavy duty, will weigh about 3 pounds
                so we're talking about 1.5 pounds for something with an R value around 0.2 to 0.5
                a thermarest neoair xtherm is an r value around 7.3 for 1 pound.
                you're both severely moronic if you read my post, and still think a tarp is anywhere near as thermally efficient per weight as a sleeping pad.
                can either of you come up with a single reason why you wouldn't just bring a sleeping pad, other than being poor?

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >r value
                Imagine using the r value of something 1/20 of an inch thick.

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >tarp -> leaves -> tarp
                You'll get 2" of 0.5 R...instead of 1/8" of 7.3 R.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >has never traveled before
                >has only been in environments with plentily available dry leaves
                >has never been up north where its wet
                >has never backpacked in the winter

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                I've lived inside of quinzhees. I don't subscribe to your idiocy of using big numbers to justify spending huge money.

                Also, remember, R value is insulation per inch of thickness. R means NOTHING in itself.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                its a 2.5 inch pad, el pseudointellectual midwit

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >2.5 inches
                Not when you lie on it

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                7.3 * 0.5 / 2.5 = 1.46
                Congratulations, you carried a pad when you could have carried a tarp and used some leaves.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That's quite objectively false. The R value comes from an ASTM standard for sleeping pads and even before the revision it was a number assigned the pad as is. Ie (R value of material * thickness) = R' [listed value of pad]. The R value definition you're looking at is probably for house insulation, which was adapted for it. New ASTM method is the first official standard I think.

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                R isn't uniform if the thickness isn't...
                Tell me, does the matt stay 3 inches when you lie on it?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Of course it compresses, that's not what the standard is for though. It, like practical test standards, is a consistent reference. A foam pad with an R value of 1.5 is less insulating than one of 2.5. A inflatable of 6.9 is more insulating than either. Just like down loft helps make sense of temperature ratings of different fill powers and down weight. Now what is true is that like most practical tests it is not all encompassing. It doesn't account for the type of ground you're on for instance. A common phenomenon is that many people report feeling cold on nylon air pads even when it's technically insulating from the ground, but not on closed-cell foam hence people doubling up with foams on top.

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >a reference
                Yes...but something with R=1 will perform different above/below body than something less firm with R=2.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Also, remember, R value is insulation per inch of thickness. R means NOTHING in itself.
                yes it does
                what are you going to do, measure the average pad compression when your customer base ranges over 100 pounds?
                there's a reason people like me own businesses and people like you post on /vg/

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >r value
                I looked it up.
                While it's not per inch, it does matter how thick the insulation is.
                7.3 when uncompressed, yes - that is the material above the person.
                But for below the person - take 7.3, do this:
                7.3 * compressed thickness / uncompressed thickness
                YW

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                R Value in not per inch. It is the unit in which Thermal Conductivity is specified.

                R per inch is per inch, but the R stated for sleeping pads is the total R of the assembly.

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >for the assembly
                Ambiguous

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-value_(insulation)

                R is amount of heat per temperature difference across an amount of material over a period of time.
                Simple as.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I'm the Anon who posted

                >who the frick carries a tarp that big?
                anybody who carries a rain poncho

                and I do bring a sleeping pad. That doesn't change the fact that a rain poncho (which is more like 9 ounces and fits in your pocket) can be used as a tarp and is the right size to wrap oneself in as the other Anon described.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >15x15 tarp
                You’ve never camped more than a few days, and only in fair weather. You’re fat. You’ve never backpacked more than a few miles, and even then your focus was on camping rather than hiking. You don’t even know the difference between camping and hiking. Your feet are softer than the inside of a vegana. You think pemmican and whole potatoes are a good choice for hiking food. You think pack weight isn’t important. You have no idea what you’re doing.

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                Spectrum much

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >deconstructed sleeping pad
                sounds like some gay shit i'd order at a "fusion" restaurant in LA
                what are you, queer? why can't you use a sleeping pad like a normal person?

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >normal person
                >on out
                OOF

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >roll up in something waterproof
                Enjoy your condensation nightmare.

              • 11 months ago
                he/her/they

                >condensation
                Imagine not enjoying the morning tarpfull of tarp-water.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Anyone claiming they sleep fine in a 1/8” ccf pad
      youre a fricking soft-ass pussy if you cant have a restful sleep on the cold hard ground. what do you need a tempurpedic mattress every time you go to the forest

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >tatami
        I sleep at home on a pretty hard mattress, it is a Plank.

        I don't sleep directly on dirt because it is a heat sink. In the summer no real issue but most of the rest of the year you'll probably die from hypothermia, depending on where you live. I sleep on a pad just for the R value.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Poors seething they can't afford zpacks

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Some of us don't want the bears to see us jacking off through the tent wall

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Bear can catch me jacking it all he wants because I'm cruising with the best lightweight tent on the market.

        • 11 months ago
          he/her/they

          >any tent will protect against a bear
          Best to just hoist yourself from a strong branch, but not strong enough for a bear.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Now that you brought it up, most of my PrepHole jerks are in the wide open. I have done some in the tent but most have just been trailside for birds and squirrels and all the creatures could see.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    There's a thread about trail diapers, so I guess all the way.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Anyone ever read dune? I wish we had that electric tent material that Paul and Lady Jessica use after fleeing the harkonen thoppter and crashing in the desert wastes, being forced to PrepHole.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >using a sleeping pad
    >bringing a pillow
    not a real UL'er

    t. real UL'er

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You sleep on a plastic sheet or what dude? My kit is down to basically frick all but I can't compromise on a tent because bugBlack folk are the worst and I just cannot sleep on the shitty foam pads, I mean I can but I get a dogshit sleep, for what the pad weighs it's kind of essential for me. Kind of jelly of the dues who can just get a good sleep on a rock.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        They are bugs you don't have to throw out such hateful language it's not necessary

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          /sfg/ sends their regards, frick bugBlack folk

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why would you want to bring a pillow? Just use a bag of your clean clothes/towels?

      Yeah, I bring a few spare towels.

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >be fat frick OP
    >multiple women and children blow past him on the trail as he takes yet another break.
    >’REEEE FRICKIN ULTRALIGHTERS MAKING IT TOO EASY’
    I packed heavy at the start and that shit fricking sucks. But why do Americans think you have to do everything one way or another? You can adopt UL principles as well as bringing some luxury items. This seems to be mind blowing for a lot of people.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Physics is not negotiable, at least not on planet earth.

      It is 100% scientific law that no matter a person's fitness level they can go further faster the less mass they carry. Everyone who tries to argue this as somehow relating to "toughness" is objectively a moron. Name the last fat guy to win the Tour de France or an gold in the Olympic marathon.

      >and take enormous strides downhill

      Kiss goodbye to your knee joints and ankles fat c**t, fortunately you don't go PrepHole or move in any fashion anyway so your clogged heart will give out long before.

      [...]
      have a nice day larping fatty and go for a walk once in your life. At least have the decency to post on the usual fat people boards instead of sullying our nice board with your lard presence.

      Post physique fatty

      Do you even realize you're a complete lunatic

      Get some professional help and I dont mean with weighing your clothing

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ok fat

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >be me
    >normal sized man 6ft, 175lbs
    >carry 60lb rucksack 30 miles per day, and not be sore whatsoever the next day
    >see this thread

    i am amused that these people exist

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Another larper enters the thread

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >my walking pace is 4.5 mph before I even begin to consciously increase it
        >one of my steps is 2 of yours
        >I get up stairs 3 times faster than you just from my gait

        You are simply inferior it's okay, not everyone can be lanky and walk infinitely like me.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Ok dude, at least try to make your gigachad larp believeable next time, some people on this board do actually go outside.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I am literally a normal sized man and every one of my peers is my equal. You live in pussy world.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Ok

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Physics is not negotiable, at least not on planet earth.

          It is 100% scientific law that no matter a person's fitness level they can go further faster the less mass they carry. Everyone who tries to argue this as somehow relating to "toughness" is objectively a moron. Name the last fat guy to win the Tour de France or an gold in the Olympic marathon.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Lol you are wrong and dont know how angles work you dont even know how to walk and here you are talking 4th grade science class you bill nye little b***h

            Put 200lbs on your back and move our hips instead of your ankles, wow its fricking nothing you dont even feel it. Use your ankles to walk, holy shit this is hard. Learn to walk. Jackass.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              It is similiarly immutable that some people are just sad little b***hes and will give up sooner than a person carrying twice as much as them. Anyone who acts like autistically reducing weight by grams will be a magic cheat code to replace physical fitness and determination is an idiot.

              have a nice day larping fatty and go for a walk once in your life. At least have the decency to post on the usual fat people boards instead of sullying our nice board with your lard presence.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >t. wristlet

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Post physique fatty

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            It is similiarly immutable that some people are just sad little b***hes and will give up sooner than a person carrying twice as much as them. Anyone who acts like autistically reducing weight by grams will be a magic cheat code to replace physical fitness and determination is an idiot.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              There are three sides to the ultralight “debate.”

              >counting grams
              This is what OP is talking about. I don’t think these people are as common as the internet would actually have you think. Even places like backpacking light and r/ultralight are a mixed bag.

              >anti-ultralight heavyweight LARP
              These are people who don’t hike very far (or at all), but will tell us about their 60lb pack anyway. They deny abject reality, and don’t even understand the concept or reason behind a lighter pack, hence non sequitur arguments about speed or getting exercise. Even in this thread we see someone claiming 30 mile days.

              >reasonable light weight arguments
              People who actually hike understand the basic principle behind having a lighter load, and the balance between comfort at camp and comfort while hiking. You can’t think this way if you’re a autist, as it involves shades of grey. Many even know that there’s a difference between hiking and camping (something the anti-ultralight crowd is oblivious to). This is what people in this thread are talking about.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Its pretty simple. Time / Stride = Passive basic lower end of mileage

                For me, there does not exist a day that is below 30. Physically impossible to do less if I am moving.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                This. Hiking is just walking from A to B, so all you need is food and maybe rain gear. Camping involves actually stopping somewhere and staying for the night.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nope you completely missed the mark.

                My take on it is this, a camping trip is when you’re going out with the intention to CAMP at an location (or series of locations) and enjoy your time camping.

                Hiking, and most of the UL crowd specifically falls under long distance hiking or more technical hikes, are going out specifically to HIKE a route. Part of that HIKE may involve stopping and sleeping, so they will need to set up camp, but that’s not the goal of what they’re doing and the camp aspect is entirely secondary.

                Again, this is on a spectrum. Many times the activities of hiking and camping are basically equal in importance, hence the balance between camp comfort and hike comfort by getting your pack weight just right. UL people just take this to the edge of one spectrum, which is prioritizing the hike above all else.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >this is on a spectrum
                It isn't the only thing on a spectrum

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                No, he’s right. Hiking and camping are separate things. If you’re doing both on one trip it’s called backpacking.

                >this is on a spectrum
                It isn't the only thing on a spectrum

                Ha!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >It's not XYZ
                >Here's my take on how it's XYZ
                Checks out

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Dear god you are mentally ill. Idk why im surprised this is PrepHole(nel)

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            t.baby legs

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Are you me?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lol the larpers back. Lets see how far the goal posts move and what lies we can uncover.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the movement was birthed by this guy
    He spent his life walking the trails with his wife and this book was the result of his experiences and preferences with gear
    His drive was to be able to walk much longer distances each day than a traditional trail hiker

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      forgot to add image

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        the movement was birthed by this guy
        He spent his life walking the trails with his wife and this book was the result of his experiences and preferences with gear
        His drive was to be able to walk much longer distances each day than a traditional trail hiker

        Being heavier takes you further

        Source: I am a forklift that expends almost no energy uphill as I move from my hips not my ankles, and take enormous strides downhill.

        Liteeally easier to do the heavier you are, and since I cheat the uphills so well it's pure benefit.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >and take enormous strides downhill

          Kiss goodbye to your knee joints and ankles fat c**t, fortunately you don't go PrepHole or move in any fashion anyway so your clogged heart will give out long before.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Study calculus and physics

        • 11 months ago
          he/her/they

          A troll like you could only find success on a brainless board like out.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It is funny to see /in/ larpers shitting on a dude who has more collective miles than 100% of this board combined if you take out the bros who have done through hikes.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Hero worship should be bannable on PrepHole

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >baby wipes
    they are amazing thou. highly recommended

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >equating camping to formula 1 racing and sprinting

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I recently moved back to innawoods and have been doing daily hikes and weekly overnight/two night trips and part of that involved replacing all my old gear with new fancy stuff. It's incredible how light everything is now. My quilt, pad and tent are now smaller and lighter than my old sleeping bag used to be. It's really nice because getting my base weight down lower means I can offset the weight of a camera or something. Can even fit my overnight set comfortably in a Coulee 25L.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >magic walking technique that defies laws of physics and thermodynamics and allows you to carry your bodyweight on your back without increasing your energy expenditure
    PrepHole is the easiest board to bait

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You failed physics and body mechanics

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The most basic equation in physics is F = ma.

        Google what the M stands for....

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          [...]
          Do you carry an anvil while hiking?

          You have no idea how the body works, how metabolic pathways work, how strids efficiency works. You are baby legged and get tired easily because you dont know how to walk.

          You can test this yourself, walk only with hip pivot. Wear weight for this. If you charged up a hill tossing your ankles forward, you will be tired, if you simply hip pivot your heartrate wont even be higher and youll be at the top of the hill.

          >im literally talking to someone that tried to run before they could walk

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Nice.

            Do you carry an anvil while hiking?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Let me make this clear: A load is necessary for smooth hip pivot, unloaded there is an entirely different mode of walking.

              You ankle swinging idiot, you will get tired so fast.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Still not clear on the presence of an anvil on your hikes, or the quantity you haul.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                An anvil would not lend itself well to hip pivot, it would certainly sit too low in any pack. You are silly and butthurt that you just now learned an extra type of walking.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >it would certainly sit too low in any pack
                Up to this point you were suggesting that mass does not affect the distance or speed a hiker can travel.

                Are you now claiming that it does?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Anon, weight =/= mass and you know this.

                If the mass is such that it prevents hip pivot, you are simply carrying something you shouldn't be. All mass must be such at it remaina above your hips. Simple.

                Your fake arguments dont get rid of this ancient and valuable method of walking, fyi.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >weight =/= mass
                Where do you hike that gravity varies?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >cant walk
                >cant physics

                No surprise, also for less gravity see northern canada.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ah yes of course. Northern Canada is well known for having different gravity from the rest of the planet.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >he didnt know

                Your claim now is that everyone who set out to complete a self-supported FTK did it wrong, as they could have carried massive packs with extremely heavy ground pads and a fresh change of clothes everyday but they don’t know how to walk so they had to suffer with very lightweight packs.

                You lack reading comprehension.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Good morning sir

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ah yes, mgal.

                This is a non-standardized measure of acceleration due to gravity, which is mostly influenced by air density. A tiny influence on this is the distance from MSL which is why you see mountainous areas with lower mgal.

                If you go to the absolute top, Everest summit, you will not be able to measure the difference in the weight of your pack versus at sea level.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                NTA, but you’re wrong. I’ve worked as a metrologist for 15 years, and while I mostly deal with force and torque instrumentation, I’ve dealt quite a bit with high precision magnetic induction laboratory balances.

                You absolutely can weigh the difference in a mass at different points on the Earth. AoG does matter, but only on high precision instruments. If I’m calibrating a 220klb dynamometer, it won’t matter. The instrument doesn’t have the accuracy to detect the tiny variations that occur due to gravity. Where my lab is located, the difference between a 1kg weight and 1kgf (kilogram force) is roughly 0.03%. The combined accuracy of a 220klb dynamometer is +/-0.3% of full scale.

                Force and mass are absolute while weight can vary. If I’m calibrating a force instrument with weight, I have to compensate for gravitational differences. There’s a formula I use. And my lab is barely above sea level.

                A laboratory balance, however, is accurate enough for gravity to be an issue. The difference is negligible across the US, but substantial from place to place. Now when I say “substantial” I’m talking about fractions of a percent.

                Being that it’s so small, you’d never notice it in your pack. I think the difference due to AoG from Everest to sea level is like 0.4%, and even sea level can vary as the Earth isn’t a perfect sphere (or perfectly flat, lol).

                The Anon who brought this up probably just googled it or learned about it in middle school.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >NTA, but you're wrong
                >Being that it’s so small, you’d never notice it in your pack.
                >The Anon who brought this up probably just googled it or learned about it in middle school.
                Lot of that going around it seems.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Weight is a force that goes in the opposite direction as force of resistance (string tension, or surface reaction). It goes in the same direction as gravity on the flat surface, but otherwise it's different. You should've paid more attention during physics classes, anon.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Post hikes, post load out, post body.
            You won't, you delusional homo.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >be a homosexual redditor RIGHT NOW or ill reeeeee

              Laughing at you. I am speaking simple truths you can test for yourself.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Providing evidence of the shit you're talking out of your butthole makes you a redditor
                Ok schizo

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >t. Obese

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bringing up law of thermodynamics is a sure sign of a midwit redditgay.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ok fatty.

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    holy frick why is this thread so awful. theres no way that every thread on this board is this bad

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hahahahahahaha

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It’s one Anon. I’m pretty sure he’s shit up other threads as well. He’s made this weird claim about walking a certain way before, as well as the claims of 30 mile days combined with the “let me tell you why I’m so intelligent” types of remarks. Maybe I’m a schizo, but I think it’s the same person.

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I've gone pretty deep on weight saving, I'm a bikepacker so weight really does matter.

    I've focused on provisions over the past couple of summers, I take primarily dried foods with me, powdered egg, porridge and milk powder, dried fruits etc, I make my own flapjacks and venison jerky. Foraging has probably delivered the most significant savings by way of not weighing anything until I pick and eat it. Mushrooms, berries, tubers and roots, fruit, wild salads etc are pretty abundant if you know what you're looking for, I have a technique for catching cray fish that involves tying a net across a stream, last year on one occasion I netted more than 80 of the frickers, only took the biggest though.

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >consume pureed baby food
    "Yes"

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      if you can find baby food on sale its top tier

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why does every UL thread inevitably turn into a shit-flinging shitshow?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Larping terminally /in/ fats, like much of the rest of the board.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        This. It doesn't matter how much weight you take out of your bag, your computer chair is still holding up 400 pounds of shut-in

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I tried ultralight but if only makes sense if you're on a bike/running. Lightweight is where its at, light but not homosexual light

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    You people pack ultralight because you want to maximize your hiking efficiency and brag online about how you dont bring food and instead subsist on bear cum.

    I pack ultralight because Im a lazy frick who doesnt want to carry too much.

    We are not the same.

  23. 11 months ago
    he/her/they

    >ultra light
    >everything in your list is unnecessary
    Whew lad

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >ultra light
    In America this is meaningless
    Most could lose 15 lbs of body weight within a month.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It is about the gear not the person.
      The reason for that is as long a a piece of gear does its job, lighter is better. But what matters for the person is watts per kilogram.

      You can starve yourself to get lighter but if you lose too much muscle doing it you are hosed. Allow always lower body fat is better until you get into the low single digits for men or below 12ish percent for women.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >watts per kg
        Yes.
        But do you not live in America?

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Went on a multi day trip recently with a bunch of ultra light gays, you should have seen the look on their face when I pulled a Nemo Roamer XL Wide pad out of my backpack. I think Ultra lighters are legit the most beta weak pussies on the trail if they can't handle a 5lbs pad in their pack.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The real flex is pulling out jello cups and eating them throughout the day.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >is that BEER in an ALUMINUM CAN?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >beer in cans
          Bottles are the real chad move

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      i respect it, doesn't affect me if you keep pace reasonably. but i believe it. there's a big difference in attitude between the oldgays who created ultralight organically by min/maxing before it was commercialized, and the new generation of onions latte product consumer reddit ultralighters.
      the way i see it is, they're kind of cringe, but i'm fine with it because i get to benefit from all the technological advancements that come with it becoming mainstream and appealing to west coast tech job rich onions yuppies who will gladly beta test all the new fabrics and materials and construction methods before i buy them.
      who cares what other people do? i just want the best gear for what i do in the woods. sometimes its ultralight gear sometimes its not.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >is so new he doesn’t know about auto-onions
        >calls others Redditors

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          i refuse to acknowledge the existence of the filters, just use PrepHolex and reverse them, break the conditioning

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i sleep on a jap floor bed at home, i would have a harder time falling asleep on your nemo than my ccf. if there was something heavier that was comfier to me i would probably bring it. there's a few things not worth compromising on with ultra-lightness and your sleep is one of them. sleeping less hours is counter-intuitive to the goal of lighter pack = more miles.

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >pillow
    Do you really bring a pillow hiking??

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    any sort of shelter you build every day is nonsensical. the idea fades away from your mind the first time you've ever done a multi day backpacking trip. in a survival situation its one thing but for recreation or long distance travel its simply too many hours wasted in the day to plan around it vs just carrying a shelter, which doesn't weigh very much if you have ultralight gear. an ultralighter's entire sleep system and tent and everything probably weighs about the same as a winter sleeping bag you'd use. its not a lot of weight. those insulated pads have the best insulation per gram of any object you could bring. the foam pads are really only viable for people who are fine really toughing it, which is 15% of people at most.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >walk an entire fricking day
      >somehow cant find a nice spot to be a shelter along the way

      Not only are you a pussy that cant do even 5 minutes of work but if you were smart nature would do most of the work for you

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >5 minutes
        >no consideration for energy expenditure
        >never been to a desert or other location without readily available supplies
        >just use leaves
        >doesn't know what seasons are yet
        as i said you're incredibly inexperienced and green. don't try to invent the wheel when you're a brand new beginner to the outdoors. save that for when you have some experience under your belt and a little hair on your chest first. you're theorycrafting about something you've never even done before. go out in the woods on a reasonably cold day, try it and come report back to us.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Didnt read because your first assumption was wrong, you are just a little pathetic baby that is useless in the wilderness

          I am laughing at you

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >your first assumption was wrong
            its not an assumption. your posts make it incredibly EVIDENT you've spent VERY little time in the woods.

            [...]
            Who are you replying to

            Hello pablo! Que pasa!
            I'm replying to the poorgays who can't afford a sleeping pad, homes!

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    All I see here is a bunch of fairy-boys who don't know how to walk using their hips.

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    anon use your brain for 1 minute here
    what is a inflatable sleeping pad made of
    what is a tarp made of
    your choice is a rectangle of tarp material
    or basically the same material shaped and heat welded to have air pockets, with some insulation glued to the inside
    what advantage or benefit am i gaining from the shittier one?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      you're poor and don't want to buy a thermarest & cope, there isn't much more to it is there?

      Who are you replying to

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    you're poor and don't want to buy a thermarest & cope, there isn't much more to it is there?

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't use a tent until it's -20

    Don't @ me you're all pussies get fricked

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >guise im smarter than every company and every hiker since 1990
    no

  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    this is such a bad thread

    • 11 months ago
      he/her/they

      Yeah, glampers are worse than cancer.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, ULers are a fricking plague.

      • 11 months ago
        he/her/they

        The ULers remind me of iphone users. Willing to use any logic to justify spending $1k on a piece of foam.

  35. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I dint even bring a pillow. I use a camelback bag filled with water

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Sounds like it would get chilly

  36. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >sleep on infant-sized pillow
    Since ultra-lighters are also probably diapie hikers (so speedy) they probably just use their pamps as a pillow. Snoof well ultralight hikers!

    • 11 months ago
      he/her/they

      >they hate us because we're efficient
      Bet you're American

  37. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Okay so now we will all say the weight in pounds that we are comfortable carrying for 20 miles per day(a strong thru-hike pace).

    6.2 ounces, anything more than a T-shirt and I begin to buckle under gravity

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      How do people not get bored with thru-hikes?

      I ride my bicycle 50ish miles to red river gorge with a 60lb rucksack on my back, ride a bunch of miles through the trails(lots of off trail where I just carry my bicycle too), or alternatively I'll just stash my bicycle somewhere and hike around or go swimming and climbing, then I ride my bicycle 50ish miles back home. All with a 60lb pack, I even bring a couple books sometimes lol.

      That's a 2 day trip for me, can do it every weekend. Of course 3 day weekends are better but I do like the pace of doing it all in 2 days.

  38. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    *debunks the entire premise of ultralight*

    You never had to carry your shit on your backs, FYI.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >hiking a 45lb pack like this is more comfortable than hiking a 15lbpack on your back

      holy frick ultralighters are probably mass suiciding as we speak

      • 11 months ago
        Not a UL'er

        It's either:
        >weigh 120lbs and only be able to carry a 15lb sack
        OR
        >build 20lbs of muscle to weigh 160lbs, be able to carry a 45lbs sack

        Protip: You can't gain muscle, easily and naturally, without gaining fat.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          An adult male is 6ft and 200lbs, minimum.

          • 11 months ago
            Not a UL'er

            >mfw 5'11.5" manlet

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >He follows the Weight % rule
          No option 3 dont be a b***h, carry what you need, and if you are rucking 40lbs, dont be a b***h about it, and hike/train/lift more to get more muscle.
          >Protip: You can't gain muscle, easily and naturally, without gaining fat.
          Holy frick actual limp wristed homosexual outting himself.
          You do know that one of the best ways to burn fat is to build muscle right? You would not come on here and say something so stupid like, "You cant gain muscle with out gaining fat." When one of the most proven ways to gain muscle is to eat fat and protein as fat is turned into energy which is needed to build muscles right?
          Holy frick dude lol.

          • 11 months ago
            Not a UL'er

            >everyone builds muscle the same way
            Metabolism varies per one's genetics.

            >just build muscle
            Bodybuilder detected.
            Sorry, but strongmen are stronger and have more energy.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              >Metabolism varies per one's genetics.
              And no genetics in the world changes the objective fact, proven though literally thousands of years of proof, that lifting shit, while eating protein and fat will in fact build muscle, how much fat you need to eat, depends on your metabolism.
              But the statement that "You cant gain muscle with out gaining fat." is 100% fricking false lol.

              >Body builder
              PFFT not even, all i do i lift and walk every day, its not fricking hard, and guess what, i eat pizza, and and other fatty foods all the time, and guess what, im loosing body fat and gaining muscle while doing it.

              • 11 months ago
                Not a UL'er

                >>But the statement that "You cant gain muscle with out gaining fat." is 100% fricking false lol.
                While it's POSSIBLE to build muscle without fat, it's time inefficient - which is the only resource we can't get more of.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >While it's POSSIBLE
                You can stop there, saying its possible is the same as saying im right you can do it, and its not that hard to do.
                >it's time inefficient
                I wont disagree, but that was not the statement made. Some limp wrist said "YoU CaNt GaiN with OuT GaiNingFat" which is just 100% fricking not true.

              • 11 months ago
                Not a UL'er

                >it's possible to build muscle without gaining fat
                Ask me how I know you're a twink.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ask me how i know you have never heard of clean and dirty bulking.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Ask me how I know that you value form over function.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                just face it the statement "You cant gain muscle with out gaining fat," is objectively wrong. Thats all that was being argued, so, i know im right, and if you just admit your wrong you will feel better.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                If you're going to be autistic, then here is info too:
                So long as you're not fasting, and probably even then, you gain fat when eating ANYTHING.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Post the drawing of the fatass with justifications like "this is the body that fights bears" on it; I know you have it saved

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Post your ass.
                Just use your grinder pfp.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      What happens when youre not on a nice trail? Or it's been raining and muddy as shit

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      how do you pass the crux section

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        That device is literally wheels and walking sticks, it would assist you on any terrain

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          have a nice day dude what is wrong with you

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >gets btfo
            >seethes

            Many such cases, ultralight debunked by ultracart

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >gets btfo
            >seethes

            Many such cases, ultralight debunked by ultracart

            Both of you, have sex.
            Wh*te boi sex, that is.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      remember the time a obese proto-redditor tried to use one of these to walk across america?
      https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3720872

  39. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The homosexual ultra light camper
    >Muh super light material
    >Eats like fricking ass hole
    >Sleeps in tent thin as a sheet of 1 ply TP
    >Does not wipe ass
    >OMG Its an animal! Quick play dead!
    >DUDE! i gotta have these gadgets
    >Builds shity fire from twigs and sticks
    >Bro i got a life straw its fine
    Vs
    The chad Moto expeditioner.
    >Fricking grunts up through the woods on 300lbs beast of steel, oil, and gas
    >Packs hearty meals that would be filling even after a day of physical labor
    >Packs full sized axe, can fell a tree and bush craft a shelter if he needed to, gets a roaring fire
    >Sleeps like a fricking king while out traveling.
    >Carries more then enough water for himself, his bike and a forest animal he might find.
    >Bear coming into my camp? Put it in neutral show nature the power of 400+ CC of man made steel and fury, like a beast screaming to the wood that you are the king of the forst for the time.
    >Can pack full rife if needed.
    >You traveled only how far in a day? Oh yeah i traveled 5 times that distance in an afternoon.
    >20L? My small rackless saddle bads are 40l

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >climbs over a boulder
      nothin personnel kid

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >He actually thinks a motocycle cant rock crawl.

      • 11 months ago
        he/her/they

        >as though ultra lighters have the physical ability to pull themselves up over any barrier

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Muscles are extra weight you know

          • 11 months ago
            he/her/they

            MFW I can't tell if you're joking or an ULer

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'm not an ULgay, thank you very much

          • 11 months ago
            Not a UL'er

            I bet you cringe thinking that someone thinks you're a UL'er.
            I'd feel the same.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              It causes me physical pain

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I have a ninja 400 street bike and kinda regret how I can't roll up gravel roads like you ADV rider can. I should probably get cheap saddle bags to accompany my 60L waterproof duffle I strap to my pillion seat with ROK Straps. Any recommendations for storage? t. hammock motocamper newbie

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Depending on how in the shit you wanna go, will depend on the bike you want.

        If you wanna really get up into the hills and go up shit, you want a duel sport (Which is basically a dirt bike with just enough bullshit strapped to it to make it street legal) Modern ADV bikes are like the SUVs of the bike world. Sold on the idea of you can adventure, as long as that adventure does not go off well traveled forest roads, logging trails, and or dirt roads thats not to say that with skill you can make anything work but its like trying to drive a nail with a sledge hammer, yeah it works but man...
        If you want a cheap frick around bike, DRZ400, granted you wont be going anywhere fast or comfortable with out aftermarket seats and bar risers, or the KLR650 if you are a bigger lad, which agian, wont zip around to quickly, as both are 5speeds with the DRZ working to cruise at 65, the KLR with cruise at 65 fairly good.

        Lots of storage options for saddle bags, one that is apparently pretty good is called mosko moto but they are expensive as frick.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Damn it I don't want to buy a second bike with the markets the way they are right now but you make compelling arguments! For the moment I'll just have to frontcountry camp on pavement to very short dirt roads. I'll hike the rest of the way innawoods if need be

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            So here is the cool thing anon. You can buy a used DRZ400 for like under 5k easy
            Brand new DRZ off the showroom floor is like...7k?
            KLR i think is like 8or 9k off the show room floor?
            But you can find used shit all over the place.
            I highly suggest getting used to riding in the shit before you go out and do it, as if you are mostly on the streets and well trodden paths, i have to assume you have not had many falls, when you are in the shit, especially while learning, picking up a 300lbs+ bike multiple times can be a REALY fricking ball buster. And you dont wanna be the guy who gets his bike stuck. I would strongly suggest for safty always go with a buddy for inna woods bike camping in terms of if you are goin through the shit, if you are just on hiking trails should be fine.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      i think you guys get in mentalities like this because most of you are 15-20 and poor irl.
      i have ul gear, 8 dirt bikes, and a shop. what now c**t?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is it ever funny to you to have so many objects but most of your life is still working? Like what is your ideal ratio of object ownership to time at work? 8 dirt bikes and 40 hours seems a little awkward.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          What's it like working for another man? I work for myself.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            And how many hours is that peach-breasts?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              i can work as much or as little as i want to.

              >I havet 8 dirt bikes
              Good for you lad, i got one old beat up DRZ400 that is a fricking ox of a bike that i take through hell and back all over the sierra nevada, and does everything i want. Whats your point?

              they're mostly 2 strokes i'm not dick swinging that hard.
              no shame in the game, nice bike.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I havet 8 dirt bikes
        Good for you lad, i got one old beat up DRZ400 that is a fricking ox of a bike that i take through hell and back all over the sierra nevada, and does everything i want. Whats your point?

  40. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I need you to point on the doll where the ultralighter touched you.

  41. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    This man is ultralight, he will need to hit the gym if he is going to be hauling around weapons and ammunition for dozens of miles per day let alone camping equipment.

  42. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just duck walked with a boulder on my back for 6 hours AMA

  43. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Throughout the year I fluctuate between 155 and 195 pounds

    That's a 40 pound swing

    My vertical leap is 12 inches no matter what my weight is

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >i cant jump
      Anon we already know you are white you are on PrepHole

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Wow just wow
        Racist much

  44. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    So apparently instead of hiking with a well thought out and lightweight backpacking loadout PrepHole prefers the following

    >a dirtbike
    >an anvil
    >and you should be the size of john cena

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ask me how I know you're from reddit

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I dunno anon that is a pretty good summary.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The summary is good.
          Thinking the summary is bad is redditism.

  45. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >woman sleeping bag
    mfw too Chad to stay warm, will die in mere 40°f weather but will die a man

  46. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Did the PCT with this loadout, u mad?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      which deuter? never seen any with that color

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      How many dildos did you stuff in that pink bag?

  47. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why are the anti-UL posters on PrepHole more annoying than the UL posters on Reddit? Both are insufferable homosexuals but the extreme here is just so god damn cringe. Like on Reddit you can tell the mega UL gays are just guys who autistically weigh gear but on PrepHole you can tell the other extreme is just a fatty who theorycrafts and doesn’t leave his house.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      You are seething because you are a dumbass ankle swinger. Learn 2 use your hips as god intended

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Show video of you walking.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          So you can jack it to the sight of my legs? No thanks bud. Hip walking is pure natural motion, no tutorial needed.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Show video of you walking.

            No need to larp as me, I insist that people test this for themselves on a steep hill. There are many ways to blaze up a hill. All relatively the same speed, but much different degrees of effort.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              You are not who you say that you are, no yet I am who I say I am. Yes.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Your mom is a prostitute and your father is a closet homosexual

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Video of you walking pls.

              So you can jack it to the sight of my legs? No thanks bud. Hip walking is pure natural motion, no tutorial needed.

              I'll settle for a video of you walking if he doesn't put out.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Why are the anti-UL posters on PrepHole more annoying than the UL posters on Reddit?
      what's important here is that you have found a way to feel superior to both of them

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >>Why are the anti-UL posters on PrepHole more annoying than the UL posters on Reddit?
        >what's important here is that you have found a way to feel superior to both of them
        This is the real takeaway.
        It's all in your mind.
        Just like the importance of UL-tier weight saving.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >other people having moron opinions is all in your mind
          >you shouldn’t feel superior to people on the internet with autism

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >>you shouldn’t feel superior to people on the internet with autism
            Nah that's fine as long as your own autism is stronger.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            You're a bit confused, but

            >>you shouldn’t feel superior to people on the internet with autism
            Nah that's fine as long as your own autism is stronger.

            is not.

  48. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    How do I save weight? Do I have to really dry my toothpaste and get an NU25?
    https://lighterpack.com/r/k6ztfz

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      your razor handle is heavy as frick i have the same one at home
      >shampoo
      >body wash
      >dish soap
      same thing and you have a lot of it
      find a soap that works for all 3 ideally not a liquid soap. free grams.
      >sunscreen
      >Banana Boat Ultra Sport SPF 50
      >234g
      get a bar of roll-on sunscreen, travel size, the kind that looks like deodorant.
      it works better too.
      >blade cloth
      if you use a food safe blade oil, -15g right there free
      >motorbike shit
      do you carry that on you? if not don't count it on lighterpack.
      >more min/maxing
      you can save weight in your food (look up the guy on youtube who made an excel sheet of the most efficient foods)
      and you can also save weight by taking all your consumables like toothpaste bug spray and shit, and transferring them to containers in the size you actually need per trip. right now your ratios of each one seem out of whack. some things you have month's worth of others only days/weeks.
      >dry shaving soap
      how's that shaving soap work? i'm looking for a good dry one.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Thanks for the tips! I'll find a lighter safety razor for camping, and definitely work on the ratios. The sunscreen is too large, you are right. I wanted to show which bag I have on my bike so I threw it on lighterpack and included my multitool which I could remove and use. Pump I could use for my tires or buy an inflatable pad if I need to sleep on the ground, but I haven't decided which one to get yet.
        >how's that shaving soap work
        It lasts forever and works great with my safety razor. I am almost finished my first stick which I bought like 4 years ago lol. I just run it on my stubble to make the lather so I don't waste any mixing it in a bowl.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          > I wanted to show which bag I have on my bike so I threw it on lighterpack and included my multitool which I could remove and use.
          i always just set stuff like that to worn weight or make it its own page. bit easier to get a quick overview that way.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Decent bait

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        What do you use as a razor when backpacking? The Merkur Bakelite only weights 14g but is has been discontinued and I can't find it in stock anywhere. I'd prefer double edged safety razors if possible.

  49. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Post your lighterpack too! Teach me how to become an ultralightmotocamper

  50. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm going to use a lipstick container to hold my shaving soap to save some grams.

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