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My Gear List – HELP!!
OK here is my gear list along with a calculation of my base weight. I think this is still too high. Any suggestions as to where I can cut back would be appreciated. This brings me to a “base weight” of 27lbs I would certainly like to knock this down by a couple of pounds. I’m expecting that adding food and water will be about 10 lbs. Does that make sense?
The Big Three
- Backpack – Deuter ACT Lite 65+10 — 62oz
- Shelter – Hennesey Ultralight Say Zip Hammock with Hex Fly — 49.5oz
- Shelter – Hennesey – straps and stakes — 8oz
- Sleeping Bag – Marmot NeverSummer Down — 52oz
- Sleeping Pad – Thermarest NeoAir Xlite — 12oz
- TOTAL — 183.5oz or 11lbs7.5oz
Packing Stuff
- Pack Cover – SeatoSummit UltraSil Pack Cover Large — 4.75oz
- Stuff Sack (Clothing) – SeatoSummit UltraSil 8liter — 1.25oz
- Stuff Sack (Sleeping Bag) – SeatoSummit Compression DrySack — 5.25oz
- Stuff Sack (Food) – SeatoSummit UltraSil 13liter — 1.75oz
- Stuff Sack (Shelter) – Hennesey Snakeskins (4) — 4.6oz
- TOTAL — 17.6oz or 1lb1oz
Cooking and Drinking
- JetBoil Zip — 17.25oz
- extra 100g fuel canister — 8.8oz
- mug — 5.25oz
- Spork and Knife — 0.75oz
- Water Bladder — Osprey Hydraulics Lt 2.5liter — 6.4oz
- Water Treatment — Platypus Gravity Works 4liter filter — 12oz
- Water Treatment — Aqua Mira (belt and suspenders) — 3.25oz
- TOTAL — 53.7oz or 3lb5.7oz
Clothes
- Thermal top – Smart wool long sleeve shirt — 9.25oz
- Long underwear bottoms — 7.75oz
- Jacket/Vest — REI down shell liner (doubles as pillow) — 20.75oz
- Rain Jacket — LL Bean Goretex Jacket — 14.25oz
- Rain Pants/shell pants — Arcteryx Rain Pants — 19oz
- Wind shirt – Excaliber long sleeve shirt synthetic — 10oz
- extra pants/shorts — REI “zipper pants” — 15oz
- extra socks — smartwool 2 pair — 5oz
- warm hat — 3oz
- glove “liners” – smartwool – 1.75oz
- TOTAL — 105.75oz or 6lb9.75oz
Miscellaneous
- Compass – Suunto MC-2 — 2.6oz
- Light – Petzl Tikka Plus – 2.9oz
- First Aid Kit – Modified Adventure Medical Kit — 12.1oz
- Pocket Knife – generic swiss army knife — 3oz
- Fire Starter – matches in waterproof case — 0.8oz
- Whistle (emergency) — 0.8oz
- Sunscreen — in first aid kit
- Bug spray — in first aid kit
- rope/paracord – 100ft — 11.25oz
- cell phone – iPhone — 5.25oz
- charger — 5.25oz
- camera —Nikon CoolPix S9700 — 12oz
- travel cribbage board and deck of cards (obviously not necessary but fun) — 8.5oz
- toilet paper and camp towel/etc — 5oz
- spare batteries — 2oz
- TOTAL — 71.45oz or 4lb7.5oz
Ice Cream Not Included (although it would be nice….)
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Comments 2
You could lose some weight by switching to a lighter pack and
sleeping bag. I’m going with an Osprey Exos 58 pack, weighing a mere 40
oz. My bag is a Sea to Summit Micro McIII which weighs 27 oz. That’s a 50 oz difference, or 3 lbs 2 oz.
Props on doing it in a hammock. I’m curious as to how that goes. I don’t find hammocks comfortable enough to want to sleep in for 6 months.
You shouldn’t need 100 ft of rope, 50 ft is more than enough.
iPhone
and a camera? Although I’m taking a camera and a phone, too, I’m doing
it because my phone is cheap (very grainy pics) but an iPhone takes
pretty decent pics.
It’s probably not worth the money, but Marmot rain pants/jacket are about 5 oz lighter.
Lose the games. That’s just extra weight.
Also,
expect food and water to be closer to 14 lbs. Just 1 Liter of water is 2
lbs 3 oz and you should carry at least 2 Liters. Food should be about 2
lbs per day, with at least 5 days of food. Personally, I’m taking 7
days of food to minimize my need to drift off trail into towns.
My
base weight is about 19 lbs; total pack weight with food and water will
be around 36 lbs. I keep modifying my list almost daily, but this is
what I got so far: https://bizurkur.com/2015/at-prep-gear-list/
I’m interested to see how the hammock goes. I’ve recently been turned on to them as sleeping on the hard ground isn’t as much fun anymore. Please keep us posted.