Thread: Ultralight Hunting Gear List

@burtonator that’s a great list of lightweight gear but I’m not sure if you’ve got the correct weight for a pair of Trango TRKs (840g for a pair?), looks like they weigh 600g/boot so 1.2kg for a pair?

Personally I’m not sold on the lightweight boot concept. Recently I gave some serious thought to leaving the meindl islands at home (about 1.8kg for a pair) and using my “lightweight” boots (1.4kg) for a Kaimanawa hunt, but I was damn glad I took the meindls. Walking home through chest high tussock in the dark and stepping in the odd hole that’s impossible to see with a headlamp, sidling round some very steep but soft country up in the beech on the way to the tops, and then descending a sketchy and very steep rock/clay slip down to a tussock valley, I was glad to have that extra ankle support and stiffness in the shank when it came to negotiating the steep stuff. People claim fatigue is an issue with heavier boots and there’s some truth to that, but if you have good base fitness/strength and maintain adequate hydration and nutrition during the hunt, this issue is minimised