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This question pertains specifically to packing up your gear for a minimum of an overnight outing in the Backcountry and actually getting out the door. *Not asking about RVs, campers, “hunting rigs”, horse trailers, wall tents, or cross country drives. Not because I don’t care about your camper, RV, horse trailer, hunting rig, or annual trip out West, but because I’m trying to be comparative. Also not asking about day hunts because that’s less gear. If you want to talk about how long it takes you to pack your King Cab adjusting tire PSI for the weight displacement of not having your wife in the cab (yes, I believe you when you assure us she was Miss Stephensville, TX 1998), start your own thread.
This is my 3rd weekend in a row scouting for 1 or 2 nights out. I come back from the weekend with ears stopped up from the 6,000 foot elevation change, unpack and lay my sleeping bag and puffy out, hang up my rain gear, drape my tarp over a bike to dry, clean my boots, throw away food related trash, put my optics, stove, pad in a gear bin and hang up my pack. The next weekend rolls around and I think, “all of my gear is within 10 feet of each other, I have a supply of dehydrated meals and snacks in the pantry, all I have to do is make a couple of PBJs, throw my gear in my pack and I’m out the door”, yet, it seems to be impossible to actually get out the door in under an hour. Thinking a little more progressively this weekend as the days are getting noticeably shorter, I want to be out for 2 nights, I have a 75 minute drive to get there, 4 hour hike, set up camp, 20 minutes to hike up to a glassing point and enough time to productively glass the evening shift. reckon I can get out the door by 1 pm on Friday afternoon so cutting it close on getting some actual glassing time in, I decided to pack up on Thursday afternoon to save myself some time. Not stressed about getting out the door, but kind of blowing off work so I need to be efficient, Still took me 45 minutes.
Am I incredibly slow, or does this seem about right? Seems like this should be a 15-20 minute affair for anyone who does this sort of thing regularly.
To be clear:
I compressed my quilt and puffy into sacks, loaded them in the bottom of my pack.
Put my tarp in a stuff sack double checking that I have stakes. Put in pack.
Folded my pad In Half, placed in pack.
Stove and pot, placed in pack.
Went up stairs, rounded up some dental floss, melatonin, dehydrated meals, oatmeal, couple of Vias, snacks, pot brownies (its Colorado) ... put them in a stuff sack and placed them in the pack.
Optics, tripod, glassing pad, all put in their correct places.
Filled up a reservoir of water, loaded it in the pack
Checked my TP supply, loaded rain gear, baselayer bottoms, gloves, insulated hat etc in the pack.
Began cinching the pack down as tight as possible.... boom: 45 minutes have gone by.
What’s the deal?
This is my 3rd weekend in a row scouting for 1 or 2 nights out. I come back from the weekend with ears stopped up from the 6,000 foot elevation change, unpack and lay my sleeping bag and puffy out, hang up my rain gear, drape my tarp over a bike to dry, clean my boots, throw away food related trash, put my optics, stove, pad in a gear bin and hang up my pack. The next weekend rolls around and I think, “all of my gear is within 10 feet of each other, I have a supply of dehydrated meals and snacks in the pantry, all I have to do is make a couple of PBJs, throw my gear in my pack and I’m out the door”, yet, it seems to be impossible to actually get out the door in under an hour. Thinking a little more progressively this weekend as the days are getting noticeably shorter, I want to be out for 2 nights, I have a 75 minute drive to get there, 4 hour hike, set up camp, 20 minutes to hike up to a glassing point and enough time to productively glass the evening shift. reckon I can get out the door by 1 pm on Friday afternoon so cutting it close on getting some actual glassing time in, I decided to pack up on Thursday afternoon to save myself some time. Not stressed about getting out the door, but kind of blowing off work so I need to be efficient, Still took me 45 minutes.
Am I incredibly slow, or does this seem about right? Seems like this should be a 15-20 minute affair for anyone who does this sort of thing regularly.
To be clear:
I compressed my quilt and puffy into sacks, loaded them in the bottom of my pack.
Put my tarp in a stuff sack double checking that I have stakes. Put in pack.
Folded my pad In Half, placed in pack.
Stove and pot, placed in pack.
Went up stairs, rounded up some dental floss, melatonin, dehydrated meals, oatmeal, couple of Vias, snacks, pot brownies (its Colorado) ... put them in a stuff sack and placed them in the pack.
Optics, tripod, glassing pad, all put in their correct places.
Filled up a reservoir of water, loaded it in the pack
Checked my TP supply, loaded rain gear, baselayer bottoms, gloves, insulated hat etc in the pack.
Began cinching the pack down as tight as possible.... boom: 45 minutes have gone by.
What’s the deal?
