Mine is 7 lbs empty. With what I have in it now it weighs 30lbs. I still lack my main meals for five days, water, and sleeping bag(2.5 lbs).
Just wondering what everyone else is carrying.

Mine will push 50 pounds every year , that is for a 7 day hike. I could go lighter but I like to eat well and have some other things I dont have to have. But the weight has never been a problem for me in the past and Im in better shape this year than I have ever been in.....
,,,,Sam,,,,,

I'm convinced that the fit of the pack is huge. My new eberlestock pack fits better than any other pack has before.

After carrying a military ALICE pack, possibly the worst pack ever... when you put on a well made, form fitting pack, it's like night and day.

My Badlands 2800 pack with gear weight 28#. The total weight for 3nites/4day bivy hunt with food and 1 quart water is 34-35#  

Weight of pack is dependent on hike in to remote spike/day hunts out versus full bivy camp on the move, how many days, time of season.

Sleep system total will vary from 4.5lbs total to 8, depending on tent/tarp/bivy/bag/mat etc.

An average of 1.5 lbs of food per day, cooking stove/fuel/batteries for headlamp(s) etc. all add up quick. How much water are you carrying? Are you able to refill easily, or do you have to have 2-5 litres at the ready to avoid a huge elevation drop.

I think 40-50lbs. for five days (full load) is about right. I cringe at the thought of a daypack weighing more than 15 (and still providing for an overnighter if necessary).

Remember weight going in is workable, it's the weight coming out that is the real test.

Total weight "on the hoof" was 230# for me last year for a week long hunt.  Pack was 42#.  I weighed in at 175#.  Bow, quiver, binos, and the items I wore made up the balance.

 

 

Pack contents.

 

My food weigh 1.5# per day so the pack out was lighter.  Wish it would have been a lot heavier, like with a couple hundred pounds of elk meat  

My camelbak is only about a liter. Will not know the water situation until we get there. I plan on taking an empty gallon water jug collapsed to fill on the way in. After that I will fill my camelbak when ever possible.

I had an MRE main meal in each days gallon ziploc bag but I am going to go with a dehydrated meal for my dinners. That will shave a pound or two off.

We'll be in South central Wyoming at around 9000 feet. Camp on our back but plan on setting up a base camp and hunting out of it each day if we are into Elk.

John you forgot your boots.LOL

John

Real men don't wear shoes in elk country!  :D


Rob

Awesome thread....I am heading to Idaho for elk this year, first time. We will be hunting out of a cabin, I figure a day pack with possibles for an overnight should suffice. In this pic I am doing stadium stairs with 2 10# weight plates in the pack. I don't think I will be any where near 20# in real gear.

35-45#s for the pack in.  About 15#s on the hunt.

I trained for three months with 45#s in the pack, but there is no training for a flatlander and minimum air above 10,500 elevation.

Mine will  be mid thirties regularly

I train with 60ish.  Last year's deer hunt was 52 lbs. In, should be about the same this year.

right at 20#, if i'm not planning to camp.  i've spent some bad nights in the mountains, and i'll hunt harder and longer knowing i've got warm dry clothes and my goretex bivy.

i don't carry any food, though.  i've experimented with fasting up to 5 days with 0 calories, and find i do ok for at least 3 days.

just talking emergency camping.

If I'm packing in, my frame pack, which includes my tent, sleeping bag, pad and vittles, weighs about 50#.  It includes my daypack.  My daypack, which includes butchering gear, game bags, lunch, water, etc.,  weighs about 15#.

Mine usually goes about 28-32lbs but was closer to 45 last week. I went to just under 11000 feet  on a gear test run with the extra weight in water being required as our snow pack here in AZ is gone.

oh.  7-8# of that 20# is water.

i like me some water.

joe

I'm right around 15-30#'s fully loaded, I never pack in more than four days, though I do that four times during the month.   I take a filter for water and a hydration bladder, calls, butchering gear, food, long under wear, bow gear, beanie, gloves, extra socks, headlamp , gps/compass and camera.  Everything fits in the "top pocket" of my bag.

 

when over night throw in a paratipi and 20 or 40 degree bag. Pack is a kifaru longhunter hauler.  Light and fast and able to carry it out no matter how far I go in.

Mine is 20 to 50 lbs depending on how long I'm going out for but I always hope to push the 100 lbs mark with a heavy elk quarter.

I'm usually right at 50 Lbs give or take on a 4-5 dayer.

Overnighters are seldom over 30.

I could shave 5-7 Lbs pretty easy off the 4-5 day weight.  But life would suck.