db wrote on Jun 15^th, 2013 at 7:31am:

Anyone remember back when a chair or a tarp or a stove and and yes, even a map in some circles ... was "for wussies"? ;D

That was before we got old.  :o

If I'm on a more basecamping trip, I bring a chair.  Got a couple old Fleet-Farm foldup models that do the trick at 4.5# each.  They strap nicely onto a standard canoe pack and my pack isn't heavy enough where the extra 9# for 2 chairs is any sort of a bother. 

On trips where I'm moving daily, the thermarest butt pad makes the sitting logs/rocks much more friendly to my backside and it fits nicely in the equipment pack between my back and the cookkit so I don't have metal digging into my spine on long portages.  Weighs virtually nothing.

I have brought along one of those contraptions that turns your thermarest into a chair before but it doesn't do much for me.  I'd rather use either my regular folding chair or the butt pad.  Pain in the butt to be hauling my mattress in and out of the tent as well.