127 pounds

GoLite founder Demetri "Coup" Coupounas is going to hike on the Appalachian Trail for 40 days without resupply.

At sunset tonight, Demetri “Coup” Coupounas, the president and co-founder of GoLite, with the weight equivalent of a small person strapped to his back, will set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. For 40 days and 40 nights, Coup will take the classic American pilgrimage—with no re-supply—as an elaborate field test of GoLite’s products. While 127 pounds (eight of them are chocolate!) is, to most, not a particularly light cargo, his journey is meant to affirm the company’s core values—that the outdoors is a lot more fun once you take a load off. He’s commemorating the 10th anniversary of GoLite, which he founded with his wife and late father, while hoping that by the end of his trip, on April 30, he will have broken the current 620-mile World Alpine Style Backpacking Distance record by at least a couple hundred miles.

He is carrying a charger so I guess he can go into town. Not to many electrical outlets on the trail. So, why carry all the food. He has maps for 1,100 miles. It is the Appalachian Trail. You do not need maps. But, hey what do I know? Best of luck to you Coup.