Please critique my pack list (sorry)

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I'm headed out to Co unit 25 next week for 6 days.
Not trying to be all ultralighty & not planning to hike in too far (4-5 miles tops)
I've packed, unpacked & repacked & I've narrowed my gear down to the following items. I haven't weighed a thing, for the simple reason that whatever it weighs, it weighs & I can only cut items, not substitute.

Clothes:
Kuiu Attack pants (on)
Kuiu 145 Merino l/s top (on)
Kuiu 230 Merino l/s top
Kuiu spindrift puffy
Kuiu Guide jacket
No-name poly s/s tee
2 spare Exofficio drawers
2 spare Merino socks.
Kuiu lightweight beanie
First lite brimmed beanie

Camp stuff:
Golite SL5, no nest
Kelty 20° down bag
Kelty down pillow
Thermarest X-lite pad
Stove & cookset
2x gas cylinders
2x contractor bags
Mora knife
Micro towel
20' paracord
Wet wipes
Goal Zero solar charger (the little one)

Food:
12 packs instant oatmeal
6 portions trail mix, Snickers, dried fruit & deer jerky (roughly 1/3lb total per day)
6 home dehydrated meals (roughly ¼lb per day & around 1200 kcal)
12 coffee
12 tea bags
12 energy powder drink mixes
3l bladder
Katadyn hiker pro filter
spoon
Food coozy
Condiments
(Planned for 2500-3000kcal/day)

Daypack:
TZ2220 pack
3l bladder + 32oz nalgene for drink mixes
Havalon Piranta bolt + 6 blades
Gerber packsaw (one of those tiny things)
8x42 Leupold binos + SL4 harness
Spotter & tripod
Phone + GPS (Garmin backtrack)
Frogg Toggs poncho
Compass
Meat bags
Trekking pole (bringing 2, leaving one in camp)
TP
Lighter
Princeton Tek headlight + tiny energizer spare.

Can anyone see things there that I absolutely won't need, our is there anything that I absolutely will, but have forgotten?

Best I can tell on my bathroom scale, I'm at around 50lb total (give or take 10%ish)
 
Noticed I didn't see anything as far as a first aid kit. Any kind of fire starter, emergency matches, ibuprofen, duct tape, etc.... Maybe you have it but you just didn't put it on the list or maybe you don't plan on taking anything at all just something that I noticed.
 
Bum. Yep, I've got first aid with all the essentials, duct tape wrapped around both trekking poles & my Nalgene. No emergency fire starters, other than various bic lighters stashed around my kit.
 
Looks good.

Only things i really noticed were you take one more extra pair of socks and t-shirt than I do and I'd also ditch the 32oz Nalgene for an old Gatorade bottle.
 
Looks good, just wondering why the 2 fuel canisters, and both tp and wetwipes? For 6 days just one fuel canister should be good, and you could cut a little more if you just take a 40 pack of wetwipes. But otherwise it looks like a good list. Good luck out here, it's still kind of warm out here in CO. Good luck on your hunt.
 
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