It's been a while since I did several nights bpacking and just completed a three night in the ozark wilderness area. I carried way to much gear and especially food.
The things I'll ditch for my next trip will be.
Trangia stove
Xtra bic lighter
Jon e handwarmer and fuel, (what a POS)
Small but heavy binoculars
AAA mag light, (the petzel headlamp is all thats needed)
Xtra tent stakes.
Tree huggers for my hammock (too much stretch) sorry to all the tree huggers.
Xtra cloths( didn't use half of them)
Half of my food. ( we ate like kings and still had to carry the stuff)
Half of the Gorp. (good but not needed)
Multi tool (never used it, my small frame gerber was all I needed)
MP3 player ( only used it twice for a total of 30 minutes).
Cell phone ( no signal in remote areas) didn't want calls anyway.
Xtra batteries ( not needed if you conserve usage)
Less alcy fuel (carried twice what I needed)
Goyat plastic utinsels.( will replace with a spork)
Useless things found in my pack (check pack before trip)

I'm sure I can go on, but just let this be a lesson learned the hard way.
When my son and I hiked up 1100 feet in about 2 miles with 30 lbs it was heavy. I acctually did fine and kept a nice steady pace but my son bonked a couple of times. I trained, he did not. What a rush it is when you finally take the pack off and feel like your floating in air. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />