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The original was posted on /r/Ultralight by /u/Sweaty-Try-7200 on 2025-06-27 03:09:24+00:00.

What are items you’ve taken out of your pack with the goal of hiking ultralight and then later regretted it once you were on trail?

I’ve got a short list of items I’m thinking of leaving behind on my first longer thru hike on the CT this summer to achieve a 12 lb pack. Wondering if I’ll regret leaving any of them behind.

(and yes, my ultilmate goal is sub 10 lbs, but that requires a new pack and tent and it’s not happening on this trip.)

I’m hiking solo in late July/Aug/September. Southbound.

Here are a few items I’m contemplating leaving behind:

• pillow 2 oz
• dedicated clean sleep socks 2.5 oz
• rain pants 8 oz
• lightweight paper or notebook (1.9 oz) - phone will be off most of the time
• paper map of the trail 2.95 oz - (I LOVE looking at maps in the tent at night and I plan to spend 4-6 weeks off my phone except emergencies )
• bear spray 11 oz (mostly want for early morning food bag collection or digging a whole at sunrise)
• reading glasses 1.18 oz
• pee funnel and dedicated pee bottle for the middle of the night (age 55 - very common to wake to pee) 4 oz

(here’s the lighterpack)