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Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

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258 points arnon | 2 comments | 21 Sep 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source

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madaxe_again ◴[21 Sep 25 13:38 UTC] No.45322633[source]▶
This is great and all, but for me it feels like much more of an achievement when I reach the summit with 30kg+ of mixed gear and child on my back - and there’s nothing quite like the feeling of putting it all down and feeling like you might just float away.

Then again I am the kind of masochist who used to run ultramarathons with a backpack full of rocks just for the jollies.

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1. dylan604 ◴[21 Sep 25 14:16 UTC] No.45322943[source]▶
What does it feel like to put it all on again to go down? That is the absolute worst for me. I’ve had lug all sorts of heavy gear to some crazy uphill locations for photo/video shoots, and none of that is designed to wear comforatably on your back. Downhill back to the truck after going up hill and then doing the shoot has on more than one occasion made me think “I’m too old for this”
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2. madaxe_again ◴[21 Sep 25 14:30 UTC] No.45323054[source]▶
Just “here we go again”, with a few squeaks and pops from various body parts, as I’m not quite the unblemished young thing I once was. These days the luggage also likes to yank my hair and kick my kidneys, and occasionally violently lurch to one side or the other without warning, which definitely makes matters exciting.

Empathise on the gear-lugging - I have Sherpa’d full size solar panels up a pathless and sheer mountainside, and it was not fun - although again standing up there with two tonnes of hardware going “heh, I hand lugged all this here” was gratifying.

At least I didn’t have to carry them back down.