Autumn Flower
Ultralighter
Ok here goes my latest dilemma.
I have a Gossamer gear mariposa (about 800g) and generally extremely happy with it.
I am aware however that it is a little overkill as I hardly ever use the 60l capacity.
I want to downgrade and just saw a lovely zimmerbuilt quickstep second hand.
Very tempted to buy!!
36l, 277g but no hip belt or chest straps which very much worries me (lack of support).
But then I was thinking:
I can only use it for short summer trips as it's so tiny.
The small amount of items I can manage to squeeze inside are so light that if I put said items in my mariposa it's so light that it doesn't matter anyway because it's not heavy. Who knows the mariposa might actually carry it better too as it has good support.
So why bother with such a tiny pack?!!
Am I seeing this wrong??
Can someone enlighten me in case i missed something?
However of course a cuben Fibre 45 - 50l bag with a significant weight saving would be perfect ( and also has hip and chest support)
Anyone selling ???
Basically it doesn't make sense to buy the zimmerbuilt, right?
Thank you for input and your views
I have a Gossamer gear mariposa (about 800g) and generally extremely happy with it.
I am aware however that it is a little overkill as I hardly ever use the 60l capacity.
I want to downgrade and just saw a lovely zimmerbuilt quickstep second hand.
Very tempted to buy!!
36l, 277g but no hip belt or chest straps which very much worries me (lack of support).
But then I was thinking:
I can only use it for short summer trips as it's so tiny.
The small amount of items I can manage to squeeze inside are so light that if I put said items in my mariposa it's so light that it doesn't matter anyway because it's not heavy. Who knows the mariposa might actually carry it better too as it has good support.
So why bother with such a tiny pack?!!
Am I seeing this wrong??
Can someone enlighten me in case i missed something?
However of course a cuben Fibre 45 - 50l bag with a significant weight saving would be perfect ( and also has hip and chest support)
Anyone selling ???
Basically it doesn't make sense to buy the zimmerbuilt, right?
Thank you for input and your views
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