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Old 03-24-17 | 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by BigAura
Here's my ultralight-list where everything fits inside two Ortlieb front panniers (25L) except tentpoles, food (other than a couple of energy bars), and base clothing I wear. It does include 2-man tent, small cook-set, and warm clothes
I won't look at your list...I don't look at anyone's packing list nor do I share my gear list (or even make one) as a matter of policy...but you do bring up something that people post over and over again that I just don't understand. Why do you put the soft parts of the tent in the panniers? I've never understood the logic.

Tents come with their own bag as a general rule and the tent poles probably don't fit in the panniers. This means that the tent poles ride outside of the bag...usually on a rack deck and usually on the back one...so why pack the soft part of the tent separately in the panniers? I can use the space for other things that don't have their own pack.

The other problem I see is that the vast majority of the time that I pitch a tent, the tent is damp or even wet in the morning. When packed in the tent bag, the whole tent eventually is wet and needs drying when I set it up at night. I could imagine putting the tent into a pannier and getting everything wet inside the panniers as well.

I'm not saying that you are doing it wrong but I just don't see the idea behind the practice.
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