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"DADDY"
In my world, 100lbs is a 100lbs......dead or alive.
In that case I've packed 140-190# loads.
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You would think a couple of the regular posters here hang out with a blue ox and cut down entire forests with a single swing with some of the b.s. they claim.
Sure I can pick up and carry 100lb, as noted I could walk a few miles around the neighborhood and do it. I wouldn't be opposed to a couple mile packout at 7k elevation with a mellow grade with 100lb if I needed to. But that same load at 11k with some grade (its embarrassing how little it takes sometimes) just frys my legs out fast where as 75lb I can continue to move at a steadier pace. I learned the hard way to know my limits up there, my legs last longer. Maybe I'll get stronger to handle 100lb up there but I'm not there currently. Grade and altitude affect my load choices.
Last year my Bull weighed in a 278 at the butcher. That included skull and horns, no lower jaw. Quartered with legs cut at the joints and trim meat. I did 3 loads and one was significantly lighter. I could barely get the pack on and stand up with the 2 big loads. I had to set it on a stump and back my way into it. I'm 6 feet 190 and bench press 345lbs and consider myself pretty strong. These 125-150 pound loads crack me up. I imagine there are some people that can do it, but few that actually say they are doing it are truly doing it.
Also, dead vs live weight is a real thing. Ask a horse packer.
Some guys seem to think it's an impossible task. I'm just saying that it's more than possible to carry 100lb loads out of the mountains. Maybe not for the 5'6" 140lb hunters I seem to run into these days, but for a lot of guys.......yes, it's very possible.