Originally Posted by Burton

You seem to have a real problem with anyone's option but your own. It's the TOTAL weight of a pack that needs to be looked at and by traveling with fewer items I travel lighter than you do according to your journal posts.

I could probably afford to drag along half the pots and pans in the kitchen anyway just because I weigh that much less than you do. It really is the big picture that counts. Suggest you just live with it.