Originally Posted by
bikamper
I usually take a small tent, bag, pad, single burner stove, an MRE or two, small mess kit and a change of clothes.
That's not far off from what I packed. I just found it difficult to load my tent and pad...its only a 1 man backpacking tent, a little Eureka Solitaire but I could not for the life of me pack that, a pad and a bag and not have it end up Huuuge.
Maybe I need to not use the various packing sacks these things came with and improvise the packing a little more.
That and I suppose loading up the front end is a good thing.