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What is your weight limit on your day pack?

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Hi guys,
What is your weight limit on your day pack for a morning to sunset hike? no sleeping in the woods?

How much are you willing to carry if you are going to be walking for 2 to three hours to your destination location?
 
Day pack, no more than 6 pounds before water and maybe 15 after. Depends on how hot it is and whether I can collect water there.
 
Just because I'm only doing a day hike it doesn't necessarily follow that my load will be massively less. It just means there are some things I don't need to have. That frees up slots for fun and luxury items that I may not carry when I'm already well loaded if I'm in the mood for them. Unlike with a bergan I'm not restricted by weight only size. The little pack I use has a capacity of 25 liters. In principle I could cram it full of the heaviest stuff I carry, water, and it would still come apart long before I did. For all practical purposes that means there is no upper limit, especially only for a couple of hours or so.

Two things worth noting:

That I've stated the above it doesn't follow I do that all the time. That's just where my ceiling is.

I don't always treat a daypack day as a lazy day. It's in my interests to practice carrying load for when I carry load. Rather than wait 'till a couple of weeks before a trip and then start rehearsing with a big bergan full of rocks, I seize naturally occurring opportunities to practice too. Using the daypack to carry useful things affords me that bit of practice and does something functional. If I didn't have those heavy items I'd only have to fill it with rocks to get the same effect. Win / Win.
 
This past summer I did a few single day hikes. Usually I was out for at least 12 hrs. because I took a shuttle to where I hiked from. My pack had to have enough food and drink for the whole day. I think it probably weighed about 10 to 15 lbs. There really shouldn't be a limit. Carry whatever you think you'll need and don't do the weight limit thing.
 
Depends on where I'm going. These days I'm usually not anywhere that the worst case scenerio involves more than an unexpected night in the woods before either finding my way out, or being found. And I don't go hiking/camping in extreme weather anymore. My day pack consists of things that might come in handy, i.e. first aid kit, bug repellent, candy bars, etc.. I always have a couple of knives along, as well as fire starting materials. And a firearm. Usually under 10-15 pounds.
 
Being that most of my hikes are limited by time constraints, I carry a heavy pack for the sake of exercise. The heavier it is, the better workout I get. If I were to go somewhere for distance, I would limit the pack to not much more than enough water, my survival kit, first aid kit, and a couple Cliff Bars. 10 pounds or so?
 
Depends on if my son is with me. With my boy I tend to go overboard with "just in case " stuff. When he is with me I am pushing 15 lbs.(includes extra water even though he carries a canteen).

Me alone? Id say around 8-10 lbs.
 
for me, water water water, bread and dried meat or some nuts, maybe a couple cans of soup with easy off lids, a bit of salt and a bottle of hot sauce, a bit of para cord to play with, a few knives to play with, see how well they hold their edges, more playing. a book, DEET oh, and more water.

about 25-30 pounds, mostly water weight, next summer I'm going to add a spray bottle since I don't sweat much even when it's hot.

I'd also recommend adding a metal coat hanger, my personal experience with a backpack and a failed adjustment buckle (link for a pic of the type of buckle I'm talking about) http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/4877769/Brokenstrapbuckle-main_Full.jpg

Just take the hanger and bend it into the shape of the buckle, I had one break while out hiking, one shoulder carrying th weight is no fun, fixed it after I got home, doesn't look great but it holds the weight very well.

I'm now in favor of metal buckles instead of plastic for this reason alone, and I carry another section of hanger incase the other buckle decides to break on me.
 
This is what I've been taking lately, about 7 pounds + 40 oz of water...? (I'm guessing on the weight)

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I'd say mine is about 15 pounds including 2 liters of water. Less in the summer time. 15 would include a jacket and my gb mini.
 
Probably in the sub-10 pound range, as I'm looking to cover ground quickly if need or desire dictates. I figure if I can't comfortably run with my daypack, I'm probably carrying too much for a day hike. I also find the way gear is packed and cinched down plays as big a factor as overall weight when you're going for shorter hikes(a longer ones for that matter).
 
Guyot w/ 1 liter water.
Izula
Fatboy loaded with gear.

Usually comes in around ~7 lbs.
 
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