pack weights

Scott said:

Hi, I just finished packing my rucksack for the Southdown's way next week.
and I'm wondering what the average pack weight is for a rucksack with tent
cooker waterproofs sleeping bag thermarest, 2 litres of water and three days
food is. mine came to 14.1/2kg tonight. Thanks

if your wondering why only three days food, that's because I'm stashing half
along the way.

South Downs Way in just six days! You are a nutter and I claim my £5
--
Phil Cook

Pack weights? This must be one of ukrw's favourite topics! Your weights
sounds good to me. I did an overnight stay on Braeriarch a wee while ago and
my pack weight was about that but with only one and a half days of food in
it.

Cheers, Jiffy

PS: What rucksack have you got? Mine weighs 2.25kg instead of it's stated
1.5kg so I'm looking for something better.

I'm using a lowe alpine frontier 75ltr rucksack. it weighs 2.50kg.
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Pack weights? This must be one of ukrw's favourite topics! Your weights
sounds good to me. I did an overnight stay on Braeriarch a wee while ago
and
my pack weight was about that but with only one and a half days of food in
it.

Cheers, Jiffy

PS: What rucksack have you got? Mine weighs 2.25kg instead of it's stated
1.5kg so I'm looking for something better.

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South Downs Way in just six days! You are a nutter and I claim my £5

Some 25 years ago, I did the SDW in four days :-) Route finding was
difficult! Pack weight then, about 30lb - so 14kg seems a little heavy,
given today's modern materials.

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MatSav

it works out at about 17 miles a day, so I don't think that crazy for doing
it, but I did use to think that walking more than a mile was to far, so
maybe its actually totally insane.
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Scott said:

Hi, I just finished packing my rucksack for the Southdown's way next week.
and I'm wondering what the average pack weight is for a rucksack with tent
cooker waterproofs sleeping bag thermarest, 2 litres of water and three
days
food is. mine came to 14.1/2kg tonight. Thanks

if your wondering why only three days food, that's because I'm stashing
half
along the way.

South Downs Way in just six days! You are a nutter and I claim my £5
--
Phil Cook

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South Downs Way in just six days! You are a nutter and I claim my £5

Should be an gentle and easy walk in 6 days I'd have thought, I did it
in 77 hours earlier this year :-)

Of course I'm not saying it isn't worth taking longer over...

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Boo

Scott said:

"Phil Cook" <[email hidden]> wrote

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South Downs Way in just six days! You are a nutter and I claim my £5

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it works out at about 17 miles a day, so I don't think that crazy for doing
it, but I did use to think that walking more than a mile was to far, so
maybe its actually totally insane.

OK OK I goofed! I forgot that it is much shorter than the NDW.
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Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"