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As far as the heavy packs..

That's something my uncle got me started on.
When we used to backpack when I was younger, we would go and stay in the Western Sierra back country for two weeks at a time.
We got all the hard hiking done in one day and stayed at Margaret(sp) Lakes the rest of the time to relax and rest up.
Of course I was younger and he would load my pack down and I'd bounce around like a rubber bouncy ball not even noticing the extra weight.

Every time I go to the Eastern Sierras I end up not needing half the stuff and staying less than half the time. We used to actually use all that stuff during those longer missions.
There's no way I need that much for this hike.

I'll have to adjust the way I do things back there for sure.