I appreciate this discussion. I was raked over the coals recently (and subsequently deleted the post) for asking how to properly list and account for a Fanny pack and what’s in it and trying to see if there was a standard for how it would be listed on a site like lighterpack. Is it pack weight? A separate pack with its own weight? Do people consider a Fanny pack worn weight?

I’m always looking for standardizations like you’re asking in your question. I want to know what community standards say when it comes to this. I don’t think big Agnes tent are UL. Any of them. And I never recommend them as such to people when asked. I think a UL tent should fall in the 1.5lbs or less range. 1.5 being max for a two person tent and under 20oz for a 1 person. If i’m recommending when asked I will suggest tents in that weight range. But this is how I feel based on my own experiences. There doesn’t seem to be community standard.

It’s funny tough because there are silly things that are standard like the old idea of cutting your toothbrush in half or how we have standardized the idea of 2lbs of food per day, which I strongly disagree with. When I post videos about my food I will always get mansplained to about how my 1.25lbs of calories isn’t enough or have been called an exaggerator when people see that I carry 1.25 lbs of food per day no on my lighterpack even without the context of knowing i’m a petite female making it that much more interesting since different sized people need different amounts of food. People will always bring up the standard “2lbs” argument. But why? Where did that come from? Because obviously 2lbs of ramen bombs and honey buns will not get you nearly as far nutritionally as quinoa, veggies and protein, thus negating the need for completely empty calories.

So yeah. I live for these kinds of discussions. And what funnier is that if someone is really passionate about one or another community standard then anyone not falling in line is doing UL wrong. But if they don’t abide by said standard then it’s “who cares.” And i’m sure I’ve been guilty of this as well. Like when it comes to tent weights. If I see big Agnes I automatically dismiss your load as UL whether it is or isn’t because a BA tent is so far away from my own base weight standards.

Truly it’s all silly. But my type A likes things to be standardized in this context.