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Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank

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Zanni ◴[21 Sep 25 12:52 UTC] No.45322277[source]▶
Why your [ultra-light hiker] friend suddenly has [the world's lightest] power bank.

I remember Colin Fletcher, years ago, writing in The Complete Walker about trimming the borders off his paper maps to save weight, which seemed like an insane over-optimization to me. But then, I'm not an ultralight hiker.

I am impressed folks are getting their loads down to 10 pounds though.

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2OEH8eoCRo0 ◴[21 Sep 25 13:34 UTC] No.45322596[source]▶
Ounces equal pounds and pounds equal pain.
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lightedman ◴[21 Sep 25 20:50 UTC] No.45326512[source]▶
Pain equals gain.

Most ultralight hikers optimize for low weight, I optimize for low weight and maximum leftover space to haul a ton of weight back.

https://imgur.com/a/ezPqNG1

Cuz trust me, you don't wanna leave that behind when you find it.

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zparky ◴[22 Sep 25 14:13 UTC] No.45333760[source]▶
yours will be an unpopular view, for good reason. however it is funny imagining you hiking back with a backpack full of stolen rocks.
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1. steve_adams_86 ◴[22 Sep 25 19:26 UTC] No.45338283[source]▶
Is it really so bad? My son and I have hiked out to fairly remote places and dug up some rocks to find fossils. I know there are more there and very few people are likely to visit the spot, let alone to find fossils in the dirt. We leave very little trace at all. Is this actually frowned upon?