don't know if this will help or hurt people but my boys(ages 14,15) and I day hiked on 8/18/13 with each of our packs weighing 11 pounds and we were first timers.Fast and light works well with us 6:44 up to the summit . Many thanks to the whitney forums as we went up and down with no trouble and made it back to the hamburgers just as the rains came crashing down.our packs went down to 8 pounds on the return.

Last edited by rerorunner; 08/21/13 09:47 PM.