Originally Posted by
Bekologist
Silnylon tarp, bug net. you're not likely to die sleeping out under a tarp for a couple of nights.
For the likes of me, I cannot figure out how the yellow/grey bag got so large for carrying such light weight. Definitely some more straps, i dropped a stuffsack off a rack once while mountain bike touring in the eighties, and had to backtrack at dusk to find it. no fun.
The bag got huge mainly because I have the unnecessarily large pillow in there that hardly compresses down (primaloft) and the down bag can actually go a lot smaller in a better stuff sack, but I didn't bother with it because everything fit. Without the pillow and packing the sleeping bag to about half it's size, I would probably do away with about a third of the size of the bag. But for now, I'm going luxury.
I think I'm also going to look at another sleeping pad in the near future. Maybe more of a torso length one. The majority of my trips would be in nice weather anyway. I'll have to save my pennies before spring break. Waiting on the 2011 tents to get out there as well. Nothing worse than spending 2-300 bucks and then a bunch of lighter, cooler tents get released a month later.