Originally Posted By BrianLe

Actually, I have to confess I have a third sort of scale, this hanging from an eye-bolt in the ceiling of my basement. Originally a spring scale, I got a pretty inexpensive but seems-to-be-good electronic "hang stuff from" type of scale. Nice to weigh the entire pack with everything in it that way. I got a new bike recently, and it was easy to rig up a little cord to weigh it that way too.


You can also do this by stepping on your bathroom scale with your pack on and weighing yourself. Then take your pack off and do it again. The difference is the weight of your pack.
And sometimes it's quite sobering!
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