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Originally Posted by dyna mo
i went with mont bell, arc'teryx, marmot and enlightened equipment.
my big priority, along with warmth, was ultra light packability. i couldn't find any nf gear that matched these in being uber light and compressable.
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On winter excursions I never worried about the weight of my pack just as long as I could get everything into it and carry it comfortably. Plus when you're climbing certain mountains, you sometimes have the benefit of having a base camps available to you where you can leave the gear that you know you (probably) won't need behind... which I never did. It would have been my luck to cut pack weight and then slip and break my leg on the side of a mountain.
Spring and summer, pack weight cut-o-rama. There's so much shit that you must carry with you in the winter. Spring and Summer are a different story altogether.