Whats in your pack?

[Irukanji]

Anyway, pack has been refined since last time.

80L pack
2 sarongs
Tarp-poncho
Torch(head + hand)
Pens + notepad
2 Spoons(plastic/polycarbonate so they don't scratch the pot)
Rope(paracord, it's gone missing somewhere in my room)
Trangia pot(lightweight)
Trangia burner(i need to make a stand though)
Fuel for ^
Food as req'd
Hat
Shemagh
Knife

Probably forgot something, but that is basically all I have now.

Heavy shit was removed and replaced with light stuff(ie. the trangia gear replacing about 1kg of cooking stuff ).

Metho is cheap($3/litre or less).

Sarongs can be used as sheets, towels, to block the ends of your tarp, as tourniquets, as bandages, you get the idea. They don't weigh much and dry super fast.

Tarp-poncho doubles as a shelter and a raincoat. I should probably just get one of those lightweight nylon tarps...might stop my poncho getting raped by spikey plants)

Two torches because it's better to have 2 in case one goes missing(I've lost stuff in other packs before...only to find it when I shake it out the next day...too much effort when you're tired)

EDIT: Decided to change pack to a 50-60L pack. 80L is too big.

[roasted]

MSR Whisterlite


MSR Blacklite (90% of the time I only take one pot and leave the other at home)


Cookware


Stove, Pot, Cookware as packed (everything except fuel goes inside the big pot)



MSR WaterWorks Filter


ThermaRest Prolite 3/4 Sleep Pad


Northface Tadpole 23 Tent w/ rain fly and footprint inside


Marmot Plasma 30 down summer bag:


Marmot Never Summer 0 down winter bag (just in its storage bag, I didnt feel like packing it)


Lowe alpine Ophir M pack and deuter Futura 28 AC


Albright A5 and Lamson Guru 1.5 (I dont need many excuses to pack this bad boy)


Thats a basic run down of my gear, I usually take my small pack for 1-3 nights, and my big bag can last up to 2 weeks usually. Depending on where and who I go with, that list changes a little (ie leave the spatula, add small cooking pot, etc). I have some misc other stuff like a leatherman, fillet knife, bear bag, wrist watch, maps, compass (usually no gps unless I'm unfamiliar with the area or covering large areas).

Food is usually things like beans and rice, oatmeal, GORP, dehydrated soups, jerky, extra-sharp cheddar cheese (acidic and salty, it usually holds for 2-3 days), granola, pitas, etc etc

If I'm going really light, I usually just take my tent poles and rain fly (weather permitting). I'll also axe some other things like the bowl, spatula; and I'll only take a small fuel bottle and iodine instead of the filter. I'll also take lighter foods like rice, noodles, oatmeal, etc

[skygear]

@roasted - I hate you.... Wanna hang out?

[skygear]

Nice to see others have taste in quality gear.

[roasted]

Originally Posted by skygear

Funny, I never really took you for a spork guy...lol

Originally Posted by skygear

@roasted - I hate you.... Wanna hang out?

"I hate you" says the guy that used to test outdoor products and has some pretty ridiculously nice gear himself....but yes, I'd hang out. Legit backpackers are hard to find. I hate going backpacking with other people that are under-equipped (ie military surplus stuff, cotton base-layers, denim, canvas, etc)

Here's a semi-recent pic of the gear in action, Colorado in September...


The first day was nice; not too cold (about 25 degrees) and just a little snow. The third night I got wacked by 5" and a 0 degree night (I didnt bring my snowshoes). It kept snowing throughout the fourth day and I by the time I got to my car I had dig myself out to drive home. Still a great trip though. Winter backpacking is my favorite...absolute quiet and little risk of running into retards on the trail.

[skygear]

The spork is more as my serving spoon/ fork.

I was looking for my wisperlight international, then I realized i gave it to a Zoklet member that was il equipt. ( i hate you comment).

My last ice climbing trip in the green mountains (Mt.Washington) we were in a tent that was recalled. well we found out why. we were in the -digits, some heavy wind and a foot or so of snow fell at night. The tent was recalled due to a faulty seam not reinforced properly (NDA so no names)... well yeah we ended using duct tape to repair and broke out our bivy's because of all the snow that ended up in the tent.

My gear has changed a little. that post was 1.5 years ago...

[roasted]

Originally Posted by skygear

The spork is more as my serving spoon/ fork.

I was looking for my wisperlight international, then I realized i gave it to a Zoklet member that was il equipt. ( i hate you comment).

My last ice climbing trip in the green mountains (Mt.Washington) we were in a tent that was recalled. well we found out why. we were in the -digits, some heavy wind and a foot or so of snow fell at night. The tent was recalled due to a faulty seam not reinforced properly (NDA so no names)... well yeah we ended using duct tape to repair and broke out our bivy's because of all the snow that ended up in the tent.

My gear has changed a little. that post was 1.5 years ago...

How has your gear changed since your last post (excluding your MIA stove)?

I've wanted to explore the NE forever, so I'm pretty jealous. I grew up in Colorado, so pretty much all my trips have been in CO, NM, WY, MT, ID, UT, AZ and CA. I've never backpacked east of the mississippi river. Mt Washington sounds pretty sweet, I've heard good stories about that neck of the woods.

Do you ice climb technically? I rock climb, and I've borrowed gear to mountaineer...but never full-on ice climbing. I want to get into ice climbing, but I only have gtx boots at the moment (they are nice Asolo's, but not ideal for technical ice). I'll have to PM you when I get more serious about buying ice gear

[Mirana]

Laptop, condoms, wallet with ID and crap, keys, hygiene stuff, some snacks and drinks if I don't wanna spend money.

wtf is wrong with u guys? bunch of rednecks who gut wild animals I take?

[ratfrink]

I'm jealous of you guys; camping in the UK basically means camping in a farmer's field... or driving all the way up to the Scottish Highlands.

Anyway. This is my setup for bicycle touring, and I'm very much on a budget. I've done a few short tours with this, the longest being a 10-day tour of the south coast (Cornwall to the Isle of Wight and back) with some friends last summer.

GoLite Ultralight backless summer bag - I bought this for cycle touring in the summer because it was by far the lightest bag I could get on my budget. The UK is temperate so it's fine for 3-season use IME. Some cheap silk liner.

Thermarest Prolite, large.

Penny stove which goes into a no-name secondhand aluminium pan, with a lid which acts as a frying pan. Home-made potstand, home-made windshield, plastic spork. It burns quite cool but it's okay for reheating stuff and cooking rice, and it was about £5 for everything.

Also - leatherman blast, fire steel, map, compass, soap, towel, bike tools, merino wool base layers and cap, loads of merino socks, two sets of clothes (one for on the bike, one for off the bike), a book, a pencil, phone and charger, toothbrush with holes drilled in it, a bit of toothpaste.

Camera - Olympus MJU 35mm film camera (small, light, batteries last literally for years, very sharp wide-angle prime lens) and couple rolls of film.

Tent - I don't have one at the moment, I had a secondhand fairly crap one-man one from Millets but I gave it to my bro. It weighed about 3kg so it's too heavy for cycle touring. I'm thinking about getting a two-man Henry Shires Tarptent as my girlfriend keeps asking to come (she's too bloody slow!)

All of this is packed into two stuffsacks and strapped to the front and rear racks of my bike using compression straps. I'm thinking of getting rid of the racks, sewing some reinforcement into the stuffsacks, and strapping them directly to the bike - this should save about 1.5kg in weight... using stuffsacks rather than panniers has already saved 3kg.


For normal camping I also have a big West-German army backpack, I would guess at 100l. Don't shoot me - I bought it about ten years ago when I first backpacked around Europe; it's olive green and very shabby so I don't get any unwanted attention. It's also rugged as hell.

[SHARP]

Originally Posted by ratfrink

For normal camping I also have a big West-German army backpack, I would guess at 100l. Don't shoot me - I bought it about ten years ago when I first backpacked around Europe; it's olive green and very shabby so I don't get any unwanted attention. It's also rugged as hell.

Oddly enough I too had an old German back pack (it's the same model Keanu Reeves has in Chain Reaction) and it was already worn when I got it, it served me well for some 10-15 years before I loaned it to Ebola and forgot to get it back so I decided he might as well just keep it.
That must be some 5-7 years ago.
But anyways, it's one rugged son of a bitch, I have no idea how old it was when I got it but it was old, and I didn't treat it too kindly but it took the abuse without complaining but just kept on hauling entire cases o' beer and whatnot.
Last time I saw it, a few more of the metal eyelets had detached from the canvas where the draw string pulls through, but seemingly it was still going strong as if nothing happened...

Fucking nice quality through and through!

[is all mememememe with me]

got most of this now for my cornwall trip. just a few things left to get, i'm going friday(next).

tent
sleeping bag
inflatable pillow
towels x2
soap, tb, etc
coat
jeans
t shirt
jumper
socks
shorts
spare shoes(just some light canvas things for temp if my others get wet or fucked up)
plastic groundsheet/tarp x2
paracord 20m
water bottle 2L
mess tins
small frypan
roll of foil
plate/cup/cutlery
knife
torch
pliers
duct tape
6 lighters spread into different areas (pack, pockets etc)
plastic waterproof bags(4 clothes, cell etc)
phone charger
fishing rod and tackle
plastic containers(sealable, airtight) for foodstuff etc
coffee/tea, sugar, milk powder.
a few packet soups/noodles/rice
chocolate
small tablet bottle stuffed with cotton balls soaked in petroleum jelly for
fire lighting.
pen/pad
emergency whistle and small signal mirror/compass embedded into it.
tissue and some newspaper sheets
a few band aids, couple of small bandages, anti-septic.

will be fishing for as much food as poss and will pick other stuff up on my travels. i'm never gonna be that far from civilization tbh. not many places in england are. unless i go onto the moors, but the whole point is a fishing trip primarily, so i will be pretty much sticking to the coast.

gonna start a new fred about it in a minute.

[ChinaCat]

Originally Posted by skygear

The spork is more as my serving spoon/ fork.

I was looking for my wisperlight international, then I realized i gave it to a Zoklet member that was il equipt. ( i hate you comment).

My last ice climbing trip in the green mountains (Mt.Washington) we were in a tent that was recalled. well we found out why. we were in the -digits, some heavy wind and a foot or so of snow fell at night. The tent was recalled due to a faulty seam not reinforced properly (NDA so no names)... well yeah we ended using duct tape to repair and broke out our bivy's because of all the snow that ended up in the tent.

My gear has changed a little. that post was 1.5 years ago...

Mt Washington is in the white mountains btw but close enough

I live smack dab in the middle of the whites for the time being probably through the summer so I'm down for some backpacking if anyones interested


Just no one who I think is gonna rape and then torture while raping and then kill me in the middle of the woods

[skygear]

LOL - thanks for catching that. I travel a lot and get places mixed up all the time. Been to both though!