Pete:
You are dead on the money.
100 lbs. is the maximum weight, and let me assure those of you short on rucking experience that you do not want to hump that very far or very fast.
Flexibility is one of the the keys to both survival and weight reduction.
I agree, the mountain men were excellent examples, especially those who travelled far and wide.
The ability to communicate could be very important, as would small trade items.
In answer to a PM question, yes, you could take maps and a GPS, if you can keep it powered. You might want a compass as well, just in case. 
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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