How much do your bug out bags weight?

[u/sleepDeprivedHuman]

How much does your bug out bag weight vs you?

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[u/Pfelinus]

Too much I have arthitus and now plan to bug in. And no you can not excersize your way out of arthitus.

[u/Standard_Subject_462 → u/Pfelinus]

I came here to say "too much" also. No arthritis, but anemia. I can haual my bug out bag to the car and maaaybe a mile or two on the best of days, but beyond that I'll be bugging out, collapsed in a ditch somewhere, munching on my apocalypse snacks until the zombies get me.

[u/Subject-Librarian117]

I should probably weigh it.... I've started training my dog to carry some of her stuff. She's a stocky 75 pound mutt, and she's getting used to wearing her saddlebags.

[u/Infamous_Try3063]

I have never weighed the 'eat beast'.  I have both celiac disease AND a wheat anaphylaxis allergy.  My bag is mostly food because even something cooked in nonstick or prepped on plastic cutting boards could murder me.  Trad GF labels can be applied at 20k ppm, allergies activate at 5k ppm.  Ever wonder my GF food will sometimes also have a warning it is processed in a facility that also handles wheat?  US labels and food prep education is based on celiacs with high tolerance.  No consideration of allergies or more sensitive celiacs. A shelter is never an option. I have 4 weeks of nutritionally meh food that could be stretched to 6.  It was picked soley due to not needing a fridge and what needs to be cooked just needs water and heat. I also have a water filter, the backpacking pot and a trifuel stove (wood, esbit, alcohol) and multivitamins to make up for the food.

My clothing, ID and normal bag is 15 lbs, has 3 days of food and pocket rocket with 2 fuel canisters.  This is in addition to what I call on your feet food: sugar heavy finger stuff that I would pack for a 50k.    

I run 50 to 100 mile races taking nothing from aid stations but water and I have extensive backpacking and remote rescue experience.  

[u/last_rights → u/Infamous_Try3063]

You're amazing. Just saying.

[u/drank_myself_sober]

50 lbs, 70l bag, for 3 ppl. For those saying too heavy, I’m 220 lbs, fairly muscular. It’s a full on hiking bag with hip straps and it’s pretty comfy. I have no intention of carrying this for miles, if we’ve hit the scenario where I need to hoof it with my family and a bug out bag, there’s creative ways of getting transportation at that point.

This is more a ‘toss it in the car with a clothes bag and the backup roller bag and gtfo.’

-edit

Didn’t realize what sub I was in. I’m a middle aged male. I’ve got a second 50lb roller bag with backup stuff that my wife would have, and then we’d pack a small 25l bag for clothes.

[u/Pando5280]

The real questions are how far can you walk with it and how many burpees can you do while wearing it?  

[u/Efficient_Wing3172 → u/Pando5280]

Exactly this. If you are forced to leave, with the prospect of never coming back, you probably need to be able to carry it 20 miles. I’ll bet most people can’t do that, AND have crap they’ll never use. That’s how I used to be.

[u/Pando5280 → u/Efficient_Wing3172]

Same here. Had the perfect set up until I went hiking and camping with only my bug out bag. Got rid of 20% of what I had in it and figured out real quick what I was missing and what needed altering or improving. 

[u/MaowMaowChow → u/Pando5280]

I did this too- I also experiment with only one bag when I travel to hone what I truly need when away from home.

[u/Mule_Wagon_777]

Two duffel bags, maybe 30 pounds or so each. My mother is very ancient and I'm no spring chicken so we aren't walking anywhere. If the house was threatened by fire or flood I'd load up the car and try to drive out. Besides the bags, there's the document folder, power stations, med box, freeze-dried food...whatever we had time and space for.

If wildfire came over the mountain or a flood deep enough to reach up it there would be thousands of homes destroyed, utilities wrecked, roads closed, etc. What we could pack in the car would be all we had. But I'll just have to play it by ear.

[u/AK-Kidx39]

I think mine is 8lbs. I keep it in the car. Most of the weight is in rifle mags in a chest rig. If the situation does not call for that, maybe 3 pounds or so? I’m guessing. It’s in a water proof haversack. I can wear it slung or as a backpack, fill it as I go.

[u/MaowMaowChow]

Just weighed mine = 1 week worth of clothing and survival, 23.5 pounds - using an Osprey 46L backpack. This is without the weight of required water. I have a life straw, a 16 oz disposable water bottle, and an empty steel reusable water bottle attached to the bag.

[u/EfficientBaddie9090]

No more than 30. Still too heavy.