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Originally Posted by timmy89
Thanks for the input guys. I'm not as worried about the small stuff like how many socks, what type of camp shoes; I'll learn as I go and figure out how much weight I'm comfortable with, and what I'm willing to sacrifice or not. Right now I just have to figure out about sleeping bags and backpacks mainly. I found a really great bag, a Gregory Z55, I really liked the suspension back panel on this one, but they only had it in a size large, I need a medium or small. Also going to poke around this week and see what other options are out there in the $200-300 range for down sleeping bags in the 0 to -7 degree range. The western mountaineering ones at MEC look awesome, but too much $$$.
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BUY MEC BRAND.
Aquila -7, 575 down fill
>$220
You'll save yourself over $100 over the WM bag (which you don't need based on your situation) and the weight difference is 0.4KG.
You aren't likely at level where you need to be worrying about 0.4KG considering the price difference between the two.
I'm not sure if you're doing this, so correct me if I'm wrong and I'll apologise, but please don't get hung up on expensive brand names. Just because it's an expensive brand name (WM, Patagonia, Northface, Asprey, etc) does NOT mean it's better, and in many cases leads to a lot of wasted funds. You do not need top of the line name brand stuff for what you're doing.