Lightweight kit

I have been playing around with lightweight kit for some time now and have nearly got to a stage I am fully happy with.

The only thing I plan to upgrade are the sleeping mat and sleeping bag and then maybe the rucksack.

The full kit not including food and water weighs in at 3.6kg.. remember the rucksack weighs around 1kg alone!

Contents:

Berghaus Munro Rucksack - Aprox 1kg

4 Season Foam Multimat

Alpkit Rig 7 Tarp

Alpkit Hunka Bivy

Sleeping bag

Cordage and tent pegs

MSR Titan Kettle

500ml Clip lock tub with cosy

2ltr Platypus water bottle

Evernew burner and trivet

Alpkit Spork

Basic first aid kit

Petzl Zipka headlight 

Lighter

Meths

This is everything I need excluding food and water and using this pack I have plenty of room left over. Most of the room left over is because I usually have my Multimat inside but I either want a smaller packing mat or I will be using the foam mat and strapping it to the outside of the pack.

If you have any recommendations for a rucksack, sleeping bags and mats please leave a comment.

Thank you for reading.

Lightweight kit test

Starting to enjoy a light load..who doesn't?

Today I took my lightweight overnight kit to see how comfortable the weight is and to put a post together.
This kit is not complete as I need to add a bivy but the one I would like is currently out of stock. There is room in the pack for the bivy and space left for some clothing and more water.

The Kit is carried in a 35L Berghaus Munro - 1KG

Contents of the top pocket: Meths, Evernew titanium stove with trivet, titanium spork, Petzl Zipka headlight and first aid kit.

Contents of the pack: 

Sleeping bag

Multimat adventure - 475g

Alpkit Rig 7 Tarp - 514g

Cordage and tent pegs

Platypus water bottle with 1.5L of water

Windscreen

500ml ClipLock tub with cosy

MSR Titan Kettle

This kit in total weighed 5.4 KGs. The bivy will add an extra 525 grams and for an over nighter I may add an extra liter of water so my full weight will come in at under 7KGS.

Food and coffee I store in the pot seen here with the cosy.

My cooking set up is very simple. The MSR Titan is only used for boiling water so always stays clean. When the plastic pot is used I add a little hot water, shake it and its clean again.

Fruit and nut porridge

Coffee after the porridge

The Alpki Rig 7 tarp, great tarp and packs so small!

Some beautiful views where I hiked and the pack was comfortable to carry. When thinking of going lightweight I was skeptical because I thought would have to compromise comfort but I couldn't be more wrong! Much more comfortable when hiking and all it requires is a little more money on times, a little more research and planning.

Thank you for reading.