2025 August Cascades 5-Day trip w/ Austin

Base weight: 9.1 lb / 4.14 kg · Total weight: 12.0 lb / 5.46 kg · 48 items · Total price: $39.95

This will be a 5-day trip in the Cascades in Washington. Summer, so likely relatively warm and hopefully not too wet! Bringing some luxury items I normally wouldn't like a tent, inflatable sleeping pad, and cooking set-up. Notes/Takeaways from the trip: - Backpack was honestly perfect for this trip. I don't think I would change a thing aside from having more durable mesh because we were scrambling quite a bit. The size was perfect for 5 days with a relatively large kit for me, so I could easily push this to 10 days with a more minimal kit. It did cause a bit of shoulder pain the first day or t

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