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Why do you need such a large capacity? Under 40 liters is good for the Camino.I'm just sitting here having a weigh-in and am slightly shocked to find my 40 litre rucksack weighs just over 1.5Kg so am wondering if anyone has got any suggestions for a lighter one (I'm UK-based). It has to be between 40 - 50 litres ideally. I'm off work tomorrow so the hunt will begin!
Still waiting for my current job to tell me when I'm finishing. Now the packing and playing has started, I want to go Caminoing as soon as possible, maybe even starting over the Easter break. Bring on the sunshine!
So? To save some weight you want to lighten your wallet? Your new pack is going to weigh something too. How much weight will you end up saving? If the old pack is any good, if it fits, if it keeps the weight on your hips, if it's comfortable why get a new one? Especially when it is about the same size as the old one.I'm just sitting here having a weigh-in and am slightly shocked to find my 40 litre rucksack weighs just over 1.5Kg
And @amancio knows what weight is reasonable to carry on your back.I find that is quite a reasonable weight for a rucksack with that capacity
1.5Kg doesn't sound out of line to me. My 36l Osprey Stratos bag weighs 1.45Kg. I'd worry more about the weight of the items that you're packing in it. I've tried on lightweight bags but found them not to be comfortable. I'm sure there must be a lightweight bag out there that I'd find comfortable, but I haven't found it yet. The Osprey bags are my favorite. They just seem to fit my body.I'm just sitting here having a weigh-in and am slightly shocked to find my 40 litre rucksack weighs just over 1.5Kg so am wondering if anyone has got any suggestions for a lighter one (I'm UK-based). It has to be between 40 - 50 litres ideally. I'm off work tomorrow so the hunt will begin!
Still waiting for my current job to tell me when I'm finishing. Now the packing and playing has started, I want to go Caminoing as soon as possible, maybe even starting over the Easter break. Bring on the sunshine!
Have finished laughing but am still thinking about this one. Were you wearing the pack when it got hit by the bus that was undoubtably on the wrong side of the road?Mine survived being hit by a bus in Paris on day two of my travels. The bus
was on the wrong side of the road, as I saw it
This is the modern equivalent http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/50-litres-plus/UC169-172.html
If you love your old pack, like I love mine, then don't be distracted by the romance of getting a new pack. My pack weighs 1.9kg and is 57 litres plus 12 litres. Far too big according to all accounts. But superbly comfortable.
40-50L? Que? Pour-quoi? Wuffo? I'll assume you are a big-boned lad.
Go to Cotswold (other retailers are available) take all your camino gear with you in your over-weight pack. Tell them what you want and why. Put all your camino gear in their suggested pack and go for a hike around the block and preferably up a couple of flights of stairs in the nearest multi-storey carpark (they may ask you to leave a deposit).
If it fits, buy it. Oh, and while you are there have a chat about why you want to take quite so much gear on a spring - summer camino
If you love your old pack, like I love mine, then don't be distracted by the romance of getting a new pack. My pack weighs 1.9kg and is 57 litres plus 12 litres. Far too big according to all accounts. But superbly comfortable.
You haven't mentioned that huge bottle of wine.With all my luggage, I got [my pack weight] down to 5.9 kg in total, then add water and a bit of food and you are ready to rock!
Don't forget the vino tinto! The reward for each days walk. So great that Spain and Portugal make such excellent wine.The side benefit of my slightly heavier pack - because it is so comfortable I don't feel it, but I assume my body has to work a bit more and that consumes a few extra calories with every step...anyone for chocolate and churros?
You haven't mentioned that huge bottle of wine.
I had some fun with the giant prop Deuter pack in Astorga.Haha! that big bottle is just a prop outside Villafranca de los Barros in Via de la Plata,
I had some fun with the giant prop Deuter pack in Astorga.
It's great that you can carry such a large pack carrying quite a bit of weight without any problems as a man, but myself, being a smallish older gal, would be totally miserable on the Camino carrying that load! I have a new Osprey 36 liter, but in the women's xs/sm, it's more like a 34. Since I leave in early April, I have to pack for two seasons (hate being cold) and everything just barely fits. Wish it were a wee bit bigger!I am also out of step with the current ultra minimalist trend to micro sized back packs with my 60L pack. Have never found my pack to be an issue. Supremely comfortable, easy to pack with some room left over. Everything is in the pack, nothing hanging on the outside. I carry 22 to 24 lbs including water with no issue.
Everyone differs in this, nice that their are so many choices available these days to suit each individual.
On the AT a 1.6 kg pack is not all that uncommon nor considered too heavy. The pack for my camino is slightly less than 1 kg. it is a ULA Ohm 2 from the USA but comfortable as hell. We have a lot of real ultralight ones here but most wear out fast and are pretty uncomfortable... sooooo...like hiking boots and everything else..different strokes for different folks... whatever blows YOUR skirt upYUP! That works for me as well. My bag is 45 litres and weighs 1.7 empty. BUT it's the most comfortable bag I've ever had and I use it regularly even when I'm not walking/hiking/cycling/pilgrimaging(lol) etc!
Being from the good ole USA, we unfortunately are still using ounces and pounds. My eyes glaze over every time I read on this forum weights listed in kilograms and grams. I always have to do a conversion...and usually I'm a bit too lazy!I dropped down a pack size after my first camino. The fist time, my pack with everything I was taking weighed just under 10kg... I was pretty happy with that at the time!
I've since lost 25kg in bodyweight and my pack when full with my gear now weighs around 6.5 kg... I'm happy with that
I walked originally with a 48L Osprey Kestrel and now I have a 40L Osprey Tempest. My first Tempest suffered from faulty stitching so Osprey replaced it without hesitation but the replacement just doesn't seem to fit right... it's new and the fit is work in progress but I have to agree with @Kanga ... that first 48L pack was very comfortable
p.s. the pack weight dropped from 1.68kg to .98 kgs so I think it was worth changing.
Being from the good ole USA, we unfortunately are still using ounces and pounds. My eyes glaze over every time I read on this forum weights listed in kilograms and grams. I always have to do a conversion...and usually I'm a bit too lazy!
It's great that you can carry such a large pack carrying quite a bit of weight without any problems as a man, but myself, being a smallish older gal, would be totally miserable on the Camino carrying that load! I have a new Osprey 36 liter, but in the women's xs/sm, it's more like a 34. Since I leave in early April, I have to pack for two seasons (hate being cold) and everything just barely fits. Wish it were a wee bit bigger!
Well, that American guest was very rude and he surely doesn't speak for me (I truly don't swear)! ...and oh, yah, Celsius degrees really trip up my Fahrenheit mind, too!I worked in a hotel in Scotland a long time ago. One American guest left the hotel to buy a newspaper only to storm back in a rage a few minutes later: the little newspaper shop round the corner didn't have either the New York Times or the Washington Post, and when he decided to buy a British newspaper instead he was told the shop wouldn't accept payment in dollars. As he passed me in the hotel lobby he was swearing loudly that he wasn't going to change his dollars which were REAL money for any f****** Mickey-Mouse s*** like British pounds. Not a great start for a happy visit. I think that sometimes you just have to work with the situation you find yourself in. As someone old enough to have made the transition personally from imperial measurements to metric, Fahrenheit to Celsius, and the pre-decimal British currency (a frankly bizarre system!) to something boring but rational I have to say it is really not that hard
I agree with you! My daughter and I each have a 40 (+15) liter, and we love it! It fits comfortably, feels good and is large enough for for when we go backcountry backpacking and camping and need to bring more gear. We'll obviously pack it lighter for our Camino, but can't justify purchasing a smaller pack just for this trip.If you love your old pack, like I love mine, then don't be distracted by the romance of getting a new pack. My pack weighs 1.9kg and is 57 litres plus 12 litres. Far too big according to all accounts. But superbly comfortable.
Lol!
My pack only weighs 1kg but i may have went a little overboard on other things.
I don’t think 1.5kg is THAT heavy!
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