My Gear

My Gear

1. Backpack: Osprey H2O, Aether 70

2. Big Agnes air core Mummy: very good, though I always hand checked the tent floor for sharps

45 degree down sleeping bag from Campmor

3. MSR water pump filter

4. OR knee length Gaiters

5. Esbit stove and fuel pellets, one pellet cooked my evening meal

6. ¾ Liter aluminum cook pot from Campmor

7. Sierra Designs XL stuff rain jacket

8. Wenzel 2 man (really 1 ½) Lone Tree 7X5: the zipper leaked during any rain, used a tarp over it

9. Keehn hiking boots, second pair Timberline

10. Broad brimmed hat with ventilation from Walmart

11. 6 ft hiking sticks from the local woods

12. Hiking pants with zip off legs from Campmor, light weight shirts (smelled bad), (next time wool)

Wool socks were great, minimal smell and dried fast.

13. Vivitar digital camera

14. 1 Two liter platypus with tube and bite valve, 2 one liter platy’s

15. Backup white Iodine, 2oz

16. 2 Led flashlights, small

17. Sewing kit and 1st Aid kit with liquid newskin and bandages, large nail clippers and tweezer

P38 can opener, a metal whistle, pen and 3x5 cards

18. Small knife, 1 ½ in. blade

19. Bandana

20. Small absorbent towel from Campmor

21. 2 twenty five feet lengths of 1/8th cord

22. 2 ground clothes, silicon impregnated nylon, one small and one large

23. 6 clothes pins

24. 8oz plastic cup hung on back of pack

25. 1 pair camp shoes Crocks from Walmart

26. Wet-ones one pack per 5 days hiking

27. Small bottle of soap

28. TP and tooth paste and brush (I cut my hair very short)

29. Cell phone, money, travelers checks

30. Drivers license and credit card.