That's why "skin-out weight" is so important. It's easy to load your pockets up with stuff and not include it in the pack weight. The base weight is the place to work on getting your total pack weight down, but ultimately your feet have to carry everything--both skin-out weight and the extra weight that some of us have under our skins!

Which reminds me that I probably should be including my glasses and my wristwatch in my skin-out weight. I am not, however, going to weigh or list my partial denture. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Although maybe I should; I left it behind at a campsite once last summer!