Tussock & TarpTramping gear for New Zealand conditions

Camping and hiking

Packing and load

Weight, volume and what gets left behind.

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Looking down at a walker's worn leather hiking boots on a red dirt track covered in boot prints — Dust-coated leather boots on a dry track, with earlier boot prints showing how soft the surface is.Photo: Jotpe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Sleeping bag packed into a black compression sack with blue webbing straps, beside a ruler for scale

Packing and load

Pack weight for a three-night tramp, worked line by line

Base weight plus food plus water is the whole sum. Three worked kits for a three-night Great Walk, and what each one weighs as a share of body weight.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 9 min

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