What I miss most is back support.  I just bring a folding pad canoe seat that I use in camp also.

starwatcher

I'm a big fan of small camp chairs, and own 3 Lafuma stadium chairs that fold up and store in my pack.  As you can kinda see in the picture, they get you off the ground and provide that wonderful back rest!

I don't think Lafuma makes these any longer, but this link shows one is almost exactly the same, at least by the picture...

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prouboy

I have taken a lightweight sling chair on solos but am debating this same question this year.  You see, I'm taking my dog so will have the added weight of her food for 11 days to carry. I could either leave the chair or the depth finder.... I do have a crazy creek canoe seat so I think I'll just use it to double as a camp chair to save a few pounds.

Yes, my friend is sitting on a sling-light.  Weird chair, but to each his own!

prouboy

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


That was before we got old. 

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.