Originally Posted by
Tourist in MSN
I found the thread I mentioned from a few years ago, which prompted me to take the photo. Link is to that post, in that post I listed the purpose for each bag:
Use stuff sacks or not?
70 liter backpack. Two weeks, but I did resupply food, camera batteries, GPS and headlamp batteries (AA), and butane half way through. Solo, so I was carrying all the cooking gear, tent etc., nobody else to help with the community gear.
Last summer I had a 9 day backpacking trip, used an 85 liter pack for that, the 70 was too small with that much food and stove fuel.
85 is about what I used for my 7 day trip in the Glacier backcountry. My guide had a Dana Designs pack that was even larger. He started out with 84 lbs. to my 55 lbs.