Wow that’s really light. I just started using a banana (super heavy) in the same fashion. I did see another backpacker doing the same with a pistachio but that’s just going to far.
Are you guys nuts, because I heard one say he would use his shell for shelter, and the other would use his skin for a ground sheet. Yep they must be nuts, peanuts.
I'm inspired!! For my next thru hike I'm just going to throw on my lone peaks, hike naked, eat mosquitos or from hiker boxes, drink rain water, & if its cold I will snuggle in with another hiker for the night... In all seriousness this is crazy & I salute you sir. Good watch & safe travels.
I have watched this before. I keep watching it because I am still trying to figure out if you are human. I take more stuff with me walking to the corner store. Is your blood green?
That setup is redonkulous! Beyond ultralight! To each his or hers own! I know i want to survive my hikes...You gotta give yourself a little more comfort. I would be miserable personally. But if it works for you thats what matters. Stay safe man! Hike on!
With the goal of a FKT attempt, the choices make sense. But this is a pack list for one in a thousand hikers or one in ten thousand, if that. The gear list is an inspiration, but almost every person should make it less ridonculous! 😉
@@StevenGlandsburg5 I think you can charge in some shelters or when he was in town for supply runs. Otherwise he probably didn't use his phone much at all. Towel for what?
@@StevenGlandsburg5 no battery bank sounds odd to me. If I use my phone for music and NAV., which he said he also did, I might charge every day. Something in my calculation doesn't add up, because i presume you're not resupplying every day.
Props on the rubber band wallet your the 1st ultra lighter I've seen use that I was just thinking the other day it's odd I haven't seen that... I use a broccoli or asparagus band or just a regular tan one and I've used that for the last 15 years or so my chiropractor told me I could give that a try and slip in in my front pocket to try and save my back and it helped a lot
So no cooking or cold soaking for food, just bars, gels, and energy gummy type foods? Hot meals in towns when you can? That was cool to see your setup! Smallest pack I’ve been able to get down to is 25L but being up in Cental Alberta, Canada our weather/seasons/mountains dictate warmer choices so a bit more bulk. Good luck the next time you do it!
Thanks! It's definitely a unique setting on the AT to be able to go that light. I've since gone on even wayyy lighter trips down south but only for short periods.
My INCH bag kit recently came to 70lbs, not including water. See the video. Now I have been reducing weight, and a lot of it is from micro managing. I am working on videos to show how I have been lightening it.
After watching this, My pack sleeping bag and sleeping pad at 10 pounds, just sounds heavy to what you have here. I am impressed by what you have done with the gear set up! NOBO 2020 i be happy if i can keep all my gear with food and water to 30 pounds. Enjoy the Video!
Yes, I will do a setup video by the end of the month and I would be honored to share it to show alternatives, esp. since I'm using it on the PCT. One super lightweight item I took with me last year on the PCT/JMT trip were women's clear plastic hair coloring gloves. They saved my hands in the freezing rain at high altitude!
Do you carry a first aid kit? Map and compass? A knife? Or scissors at least? Interesting setup but I'm not convinced this is safe. Seems great if everything goes as planned, but what if things go sideways?
Great video. I hope to attempt a timed hike myself. But mine will be a supported SKT. I've done the math, and if I can manage 8 miles a day, and take only 91 zeroes {every fourth day}, I'll have a day to spare. Two if I attempt it in a leap year.
@@GraysonCobbkayaks I'm mostly joking. It's a chore for me to get a week off. A year would be impossible. {at least for the foreseeable future} But 8 miles a day sounds about right for these old bones.
Hi, still trying to figure out the size of the compression sack you have, just bought the EE 50 enigma and want the same sack. Is it the 3.3L size? Thank you
I'm over here trying to get my 3 day weekend base pack weight under 12lbs and my friends are making fun of me for trimming things down....meanwhile this MFer decided to hike 2,000 miles with 3.5lbs of stuff he can basically fit in his pockets. 🤣
This was all he took.. but with lots of resupplies he'd have to pick up in towns along the way he probably bought cooked food often.. as all that food is only a day or two worth.. so he's need to resupply often.
@@TC-yx1qt I'm going to do the AT with a 3 oz total weight (not baseweight), consisting of my credit card and one of those miniscule smartphones that cons stick up their butts to smuggle into jail. I will be resupplying however a lot more, every day in fact in towns where I will eat in restaurants, and resupplying my sleep in hotels. Because I will be going off trail a lot to go into town I will have to take taxis from the trail to town every evening and back in the morning. Because ultralight is so last year, I wanna go hyperlite. Also I leave my lighter and EDC pocket knife, which are on me when I go to the shops to buy some milk, with my mom when I go thru-hiking, she puts them down in the basement, where I live.
Curious how you would update your gear with the newer options out there. Right off the bat, I think you could go much lighter with some of the backpacks out there now, that are even larger in volume than your ultralight running vest. Fun to go back and see.
That's a good question. I haven't given it much thought but I think you're right. I would be interested to take a look at Salomon's recent line to see if there were a better pack for the job. I wouldn't want a higher volume pack mostly because I wouldn't need it but it would be cool to see some textile innovations and maybe a more minimalist setup than the one I chose for this trip. Would likely make my own pack for the next time I get out there but we'll see! Thanks for stopping by Brent!
I want to make fun of you like so many of the other commenters...but I can't. I have half a toothbrush and my zipper pulls are all 80lbs braided fishing line. My Smart Water bottles (heavy I know) have mitten hooks tied onto them with the 80lbs line and shock cord loops on my shoulder straps keep them from bouncing. Today I replaced a thick shock-cord with a thinner shock-cord that was excessive length on another item. But I still carry a wood-burning stove and an Aeropress Go. I'm focusing on getting a real comfy winter setup going, so coffee and fire are my friends. This summer I'm going to have to try going crazy-light for a few nights somewhere. I might have to look into that style backpack you're using for making a nice summer setup. If it weren't for crazy guys like you showing your ultra-minimalist setups I'd still have a 25lbs or more pack. So thanks for being inspiring. I've learned that all those little grams turn to ounces, and all those ounces turn to pounds.
Nobody can believe how lightweight your gear is, however you didn't finish did you, and did your lack of gear and probably therefore lack of enjoyment have anything to do with you not finishing?
Regarding the shoe choice, I was leaning towards the Saucony Peregrine's also, but for the JMT. You said you wouldn't have used them for the AT attempt again, but what about something shorter like the JMT which wouldn't need as much durability.
I used them on a thru of the JMT a few years ago and they worked great! The JMT is so dry that you don't have to worry about the uppers rotting away in the mud. Have a great hike!
papa bless bleach in small amounts can purify water. Use too much, it could be detrimental (he mentioned GI issues), use too little and you could get sick. It’s finicky and generally not recommended but doable.
I can go UL...I carried 0 lb's in a 0 liter pack. I was hungry, thirsty, cold, hot and miserable...most of all I had zero fun and entirely missed the point of hiking.
Shivors it’s easy to sit on UA-cam and criticise, at least he has attempted it. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. -T. Roosevelt
When I do through hikes I carry a peanut eat the peanut then used the shell as shelter.
Brilliant. Stealing this method.
Awesome!
Wow that’s really light. I just started using a banana (super heavy) in the same fashion. I did see another backpacker doing the same with a pistachio but that’s just going to far.
Have you guys gone nuts now? Lol!
Are you guys nuts, because I heard one say he would use his shell for shelter, and the other would use his skin for a ground sheet. Yep they must be nuts, peanuts.
“For water treatment I use bleach” that made me laugh so much, I can’t even call myself ultralight now
I'm inspired!! For my next thru hike I'm just going to throw on my lone peaks, hike naked, eat mosquitos or from hiker boxes, drink rain water, & if its cold I will snuggle in with another hiker for the night... In all seriousness this is crazy & I salute you sir. Good watch & safe travels.
Wait... this dude cuts his inflatable, changes the zippers BUT leaves the tags on his quilt? :D
Lol sponsorship :)
Dude you took on the AT with 10 lbs!? What a BEAST! You’re my idol! Please bless me with your magic hands ❤️
For real though that’s awesome and super impressive! Very well done! Taking notes! Thanks for such a great video!
@@ArkansasPublicHunts Haha I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Impressive Grayson. Love the setup. You have inspired me some more. Blue Boy
I have watched this before. I keep watching it because I am still trying to figure out if you are human. I take more stuff with me walking to the corner store. Is your blood green?
Hahaha this comment made my day. Bleed red just like the rest of us!
The magic compression sack? Quilt down jacket rain jacket tarp and head lamp all in there this is a major trick people would love to see on the trail
Holy crap! To each their own, as long as you’re having fun and not hurting anybody! And holy crap lol!
Fun would be a strong word :)
That setup is redonkulous! Beyond ultralight! To each his or hers own! I know i want to survive my hikes...You gotta give yourself a little more comfort. I would be miserable personally. But if it works for you thats what matters. Stay safe man! Hike on!
With the goal of a FKT attempt, the choices make sense.
But this is a pack list for one in a thousand hikers or one in ten thousand, if that.
The gear list is an inspiration, but almost every person should make it less ridonculous! 😉
No trowel? No battery bank?
@@StevenGlandsburg5 I think you can charge in some shelters or when he was in town for supply runs. Otherwise he probably didn't use his phone much at all. Towel for what?
@@TC-yx1qt you can't charge in the shelters. Trowel not towel
@@StevenGlandsburg5 no battery bank sounds odd to me. If I use my phone for music and NAV., which he said he also did, I might charge every day. Something in my calculation doesn't add up, because i presume you're not resupplying every day.
Dude changed out the zipper ties... i respect the dedication but cant say i fully understand it.
I considered that on my INCH bag but haven't gotten to it yet.
Wow, I am impressed. Compared to you I am carrying a heavy load...
Impressive kit! My base weight is around 11 lbs and I’m amazed by your minimalism! Thanks for sharing!
Watching you stuff all those things into such a small stuff sack physically hurt me!
Props on the rubber band wallet your the 1st ultra lighter I've seen use that I was just thinking the other day it's odd I haven't seen that... I use a broccoli or asparagus band or just a regular tan one and I've used that for the last 15 years or so my chiropractor told me I could give that a try and slip in in my front pocket to try and save my back and it helped a lot
The toothpaste dots idea is brilliant!
So no cooking or cold soaking for food, just bars, gels, and energy gummy type foods? Hot meals in towns when you can? That was cool to see your setup! Smallest pack I’ve been able to get down to is 25L but being up in Cental Alberta, Canada our weather/seasons/mountains dictate warmer choices so a bit more bulk. Good luck the next time you do it!
Thanks! It's definitely a unique setting on the AT to be able to go that light. I've since gone on even wayyy lighter trips down south but only for short periods.
My INCH bag kit recently came to 70lbs, not including water. See the video. Now I have been reducing weight, and a lot of it is from micro managing. I am working on videos to show how I have been lightening it.
Yo thank you so much for the DIY toothpaste tabs tip. I'll have to try that!
After watching this, My pack sleeping bag and sleeping pad at 10 pounds, just sounds heavy to what you have here. I am impressed by what you have done with the gear set up! NOBO 2020 i be happy if i can keep all my gear with food and water to 30 pounds. Enjoy the Video!
Nobody Hiker hows your hike?
Absolutely impressive! Well thought out. Bring only the essentials!! 👍👍👍
I'm just starting and carrying litterally 10 times the weight... I have a long way to go
It takes time!
Have you experimented more with the 50 degree EE quilt? I want to try and see how far I can push one too
Coldest I got it was 28 degrees and near 100% humidity. I'll say...I slept a little.
where did you get those 1 gram stakes?
They're terra nova stakes
Did I miss the shelter/tent. In the vid. What did you sleep under.
in poncho tarp as a rain gear
That's insane bud! I can't believe everything fits in that bag!
You need the Palante Joey! Would be so much better without a zipper
Light? UL? You are the nuttiest nut out there. I am in awe.
Amazing video! You were a real inspiration to me. I bought a hiking vest and plan to go ultralight on my next major hiking trip this year.
Awesome! Good luck! Share a video or something of your setup, I'd love to see it and maybe share it on my site to show some alternatives!
Yes, I will do a setup video by the end of the month and I would be honored to share it to show alternatives, esp. since I'm using it on the PCT. One super lightweight item I took with me last year on the PCT/JMT trip were women's clear plastic hair coloring gloves. They saved my hands in the freezing rain at high altitude!
Do you carry a first aid kit? Map and compass? A knife? Or scissors at least? Interesting setup but I'm not convinced this is safe. Seems great if everything goes as planned, but what if things go sideways?
have you ever walk the AT? there's a road every freakin 2 miles, things go sideways when you don't know what you're doing and carrying too much weight
@@musiconly7447 I heard there are also remote parts idk
Great video. I hope to attempt a timed hike myself. But mine will be a supported SKT. I've done the math, and if I can manage 8 miles a day, and take only 91 zeroes {every fourth day}, I'll have a day to spare. Two if I attempt it in a leap year.
Seems contrived to try to get it done in a year. I started in 2009 and still have a couple hundred miles left so I got you beat :)
@@GraysonCobbkayaks I'm mostly joking. It's a chore for me to get a week off. A year would be impossible. {at least for the foreseeable future} But 8 miles a day sounds about right for these old bones.
You really need to lighten this a bit, mate...
I know it was quite a load.
💀
Hi, still trying to figure out the size of the compression sack you have, just bought the EE 50 enigma and want the same sack. Is it the 3.3L size? Thank you
Great video! Wondering what your chest/shoulder width is, I'm thinking of getting the slim size quilt from EE but not sure if itd be too tight
Cool post! I couldn't believe it all fit in there until I saw you do it. That's pretty phenomenal!
Thanks! Pretty hard to believe myself looking back on it!
I'm over here trying to get my 3 day weekend base pack weight under 12lbs and my friends are making fun of me for trimming things down....meanwhile this MFer decided to hike 2,000 miles with 3.5lbs of stuff he can basically fit in his pockets. 🤣
proud to be your 100th subscriber mate!
Grayson were all your meals bars or did you cook any food?
This was all he took.. but with lots of resupplies he'd have to pick up in towns along the way he probably bought cooked food often.. as all that food is only a day or two worth.. so he's need to resupply often.
what TC said!
@@TC-yx1qt I'm going to do the AT with a 3 oz total weight (not baseweight), consisting of my credit card and one of those miniscule smartphones that cons stick up their butts to smuggle into jail. I will be resupplying however a lot more, every day in fact in towns where I will eat in restaurants, and resupplying my sleep in hotels. Because I will be going off trail a lot to go into town I will have to take taxis from the trail to town every evening and back in the morning. Because ultralight is so last year, I wanna go hyperlite. Also I leave my lighter and EDC pocket knife, which are on me when I go to the shops to buy some milk, with my mom when I go thru-hiking, she puts them down in the basement, where I live.
Curious how you would update your gear with the newer options out there. Right off the bat, I think you could go much lighter with some of the backpacks out there now, that are even larger in volume than your ultralight running vest. Fun to go back and see.
That's a good question. I haven't given it much thought but I think you're right. I would be interested to take a look at Salomon's recent line to see if there were a better pack for the job. I wouldn't want a higher volume pack mostly because I wouldn't need it but it would be cool to see some textile innovations and maybe a more minimalist setup than the one I chose for this trip. Would likely make my own pack for the next time I get out there but we'll see! Thanks for stopping by Brent!
Was the calf tear due to a nutrition issue?
Thanks for sharing. Interesting. BTY your eponymous is showing.
I want to make fun of you like so many of the other commenters...but I can't.
I have half a toothbrush and my zipper pulls are all 80lbs braided fishing line. My Smart Water bottles (heavy I know) have mitten hooks tied onto them with the 80lbs line and shock cord loops on my shoulder straps keep them from bouncing. Today I replaced a thick shock-cord with a thinner shock-cord that was excessive length on another item. But I still carry a wood-burning stove and an Aeropress Go. I'm focusing on getting a real comfy winter setup going, so coffee and fire are my friends.
This summer I'm going to have to try going crazy-light for a few nights somewhere. I might have to look into that style backpack you're using for making a nice summer setup. If it weren't for crazy guys like you showing your ultra-minimalist setups I'd still have a 25lbs or more pack. So thanks for being inspiring. I've learned that all those little grams turn to ounces, and all those ounces turn to pounds.
What liter size is the compression sack?
that's fantastic!
This is nuts
Nobody can believe how lightweight your gear is, however you didn't finish did you, and did your lack of gear and probably therefore lack of enjoyment have anything to do with you not finishing?
Nah man. It was a crazy trip but just got unlucky with a couple falls and slips and tore my calf. The weight of the pack, if anything, helped.
Regarding the shoe choice, I was leaning towards the Saucony Peregrine's also, but for the JMT. You said you wouldn't have used them for the AT attempt again, but what about something shorter like the JMT which wouldn't need as much durability.
I used them on a thru of the JMT a few years ago and they worked great! The JMT is so dry that you don't have to worry about the uppers rotting away in the mud. Have a great hike!
thanks for the reply!
What compression sack was that
sea to summit
Interesting! Keep the awesomeness!!! TY
Please turn up the volume I have you turned all the way up in my car and I can still barely hear you..
What about toilet paper?
did you have hand soap?
Sticks and stones and leaves!
@@GraysonCobbkayaks I tried that once, and grabbed the wrong three leafed plant nearby and wiped away; I vowed to carry trail tickets ever since.
What year are you planning to try the AT again?
No plans as of yet! Ideally I'd have more time to train for the next go so it might be a few years. But I haven't forgotten about it :)
Inspirational
Hold up you use bleach for purifying water can someone explain this
papa bless bleach in small amounts can purify water. Use too much, it could be detrimental (he mentioned GI issues), use too little and you could get sick. It’s finicky and generally not recommended but doable.
@@jasonstaley3106 for sure. Definitely finicky. I ended up avoiding it most of the time in favor of picking sources extremely carefully.
3 drops for a liter and wait 15 to 20 mins
I’m impressed.
cant hear what youre saying, but love the vd anyway
Lighterpack?
graysoncobb.com/gear-lists-2/ultralight-backpacking-appalachian-trail-thru-hike-attempt-gear-list/
Clicked on this thinking it was a joke.
Me, now: 😳
Same 😅
You've done too much e my friend. Hope time clears you up.
Your funny! I like your video! ☺️😂👍🏼
The (lack of) sound is nearly intolerable.
Turn your volume up. Might help.
Take that Jupiter. I feel like I am living large at 8 pounds. Your bad ass, thanks for sharing.
No tp?
Sickkkkk
Those stakes on Amazon are 5 grams each, and your full length xlite is lighter than an uberlight? Somethings fishy
Correction, i found the one gram stakes
That's bad ass
That is Stupid light...
that's awesome!
Ahead of your time...
Savage :O
I can go UL...I carried 0 lb's in a 0 liter pack. I was hungry, thirsty, cold, hot and miserable...most of all I had zero fun and entirely missed the point of hiking.
Shivors it’s easy to sit on UA-cam and criticise, at least he has attempted it.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
-T. Roosevelt
What is the point of hiking? HYOH
Pretty sure he's having fun actually. If you're not into it, it isnt fun for you, then do something else.
Empty calories.
Dense calories
LOL! Bragging about how little you carry.
What a man!
If Ed Sheeran and Yung Gravy had a baby.
No, I'm not going to setup my volume on full because of your silent video, there are a lot more videos on youtube with better sound quality.
Does the slim size of the EE Enigma give you any issues? And may I ask how tall you are? Looking into one like yours
Nah it fit great. Could even get my head under it. I'm 5'6" though.