Half rack weighs 9lbs....
Flask weighs about a pound....
If you're looking to save weight.... and pack a week's worth of relax..... we can get that done for a couple of Grams here in CO....
Couple GRAMS? Yowsa! The rastafari backpack hunt <g>.
A couple grams of modern high grade product equates to, I dunno, a KEG of beer. Ish.
In a fit of democracy, we joined the Free World last year and now have that legal backpacking buzz option ourselves in Oregon. The Horror.