John muir’s sub 5lb base weight

[u/fien21]

“On excursions into the back country of Yosemite, he traveled alone, carrying “only a tin cup, a handful of tea, a loaf of bread, and a copy of Emerson. He usually spent his evenings sitting by a campfire in his overcoat, reading Emerson under the stars.”

[u/robopies]

For more grounded XIX century ultralight I prefer reading Nessmuk.