Originally Posted by
Dogwood
What size ZP Food Bag are you using with the MLD Burn? ZP's 5-6 day food bag @ 858 cubic inches(14 L) is a huge food bag for 5-6 days chow and IMHO for the 38L Burn. I use the MLD Burn as my go to LD pack but I wouldn't use anything larger than a 10.7 L ZP Food sack in it. OMG ZP suggest their 10.7 L sack holds 3-4 days food! I regularly get 7 days of food in an 8 L S2S Ultra Sil Nano Dry sack at .8 ozs at my cost of $14-16.
This is why I so frequently mention the importance of reducing consumable wt and bulk as a critical component of UL that most often gets ignored in UL yakkity yak. Gear wt is where the crowd mediatates. There would be no way I could employ a sub 40L pack as my go to LD pack with required 6-8 day food hauls and potentiallly heavy H2O wt and bulk hauls, unless I had a strong grasp on consumable logistics.
My question is why are you going to DCF sacks that aren't saving any gear wt costing 2.5X more money? Is there a performance increase in choosing DCF sacks cubes over the S2S Ultra Sil? If there is I'm not aware of it?