Originally Posted by jmcb420

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.