Justin D
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As long as you can carry water, a jumper and perhaps a sandwich or two (and, depending on where you're going, a 1st Aid Kit and/or utility kit) AS WELL AS your gear, take what you want. You don't have to take every piece of kit everywhere, though you do have to make sure it'll be safe at your hotel.
I am taking an Orion Lowepro Trekker II with
EOS 30D body
EOS 10 body
1 filter pouch (jam packed with 13-14 filters)
50 1.8
85 1.8
Zeiss 28.2.8
Maybe my 70-200 f4L
10-22 (yet to be acquired)
24-105 (yet to be acquired)
Now, considering my 70-200 won't fit in my lens compartments, I can fit every other lens and both bodies in the bottom compartment of my camera backpack. The EOS 10 goes in one lens compartment, the 28 and the fifty stacked in another, the 85 and the 10-22 take up the other two lens compartments and the 30D wears the 24-105. Tight, but I think everything will fit (although I am worried the 24-105 may be a touch long). If it comes to it, the EOS 10 that I picked up for $50 and has oil on the shutter gets chucked in my main pack or chucked altogether. Ok, that is what the bottom compartment is for. The filters, the 70-200 and a potential MP3 player/CF HDD can fit in the top compartment. I don't have to (and probably won't) take the 70-200 everywhere. I may not even take it, but that is only because of its colour, not its size. But everything else that fits in the camera half of the pack (not a huge pack, either) might as well come with me wherever I take the pack. So I reckon I have enough room for everything that I would normally carry in a daypack: water, MP3, perhaps a book, a couple of sandwiches and a light jumper (pullover). And if I don't want to cart all my camera gear, I take a second daypack (which acts as a pack organiser, which I find helpful) and whatever lightweight gear I want. If I'm wearing a jacket, I'll put my 85 on the body, a 50 in one pocket and a 28 in the other and if I'm going somewhere I have a higher chance of getting robbed, I take my EOS 10 and my 50mm only.
While I don't expect to have to carry my main pack more than 1km or so, and even that would be tiring, I think I'll be okay carrying my Orion pack fully laden on longish treks. I have been known to carry heavier, anyway, though I probably complained. If it gets too heavy, leave a couple of your lenses (or your water) at your hotel.
Anyway, that's how I justify what I want to take. Feel free to tear it apart.
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My last trip I took the combo of 17-40L, 24-70L, 35L, & 135L. I ended up shooting alot of low light and indoor situations and the 35L & 135L got used alot more then I expected them too. The 17-40L suprisingly got used the least and my son now wants his own 135L, maybe one day, he's still only nine. 
