Maybe I am the only one that does this but in addition to normal lightweight backpacking I also regularly (once every 6 weeks) camp with a lot less than any lightweight backpacker. I am constantly trying to take less and less with me and eventually get to the point where I have only a knife on me. I have a thread in the Campire forum with a list near the top of the thread of where I am currently at as far as the amount and exactly what gear I'm taking with me currently. Not to the point of taking "only" a knife yet but I may get there or very close to there soon. On these trips I am actually carrying a lot less than what I have in even my very smallest survival kit. Even when doing my regular backpacking (regular for me anyway) which I do almost every other weekend, I really dont take that much. No tent or lanterns or any of that junk . If the weather is going to be bad I "may" pitch a tarp and ground cloth with some lightweight plastic and/or if the bugs are biting I may put a mosquito net over my head while I sleep but otherwise I lay out a pad (often improvised) and my trusty compact sleeping bag tie the dog to tree so she doesn't run off after a coon and enjoy the woods. If this is the type of practice you refer to then I guess you could say I practice with a large kit every other weekend and a very small kit roughly about once every six weeks. The place where I lack realism is time. I haven't had a chance to really get away for more than a long weekend so far and I just started doing the knife-only camping (if you can call it that) in the past year. Hopefully after the first of the year I can take some vacation to do some regular lightweight (or large kit) and also some small kit (or knife-only) camping for a week or so at a time.