Hey everyone. As I said I'm new to backpacking and this forum. My idea is mental clarity. Here are my thoughts so far for your amusement.
In the beginning:
I remember my dad taking me out camping. Packing everything we needed and then some. We would be gone for a week and there was enough stuff for two weeks. So I thought as a kid. So when I started this idea my memory of my dad popped in and said "yeah, you know what that's a good idea!" Bought myself a 75 liter bag filled it with a tent which is a miniaturized display model that I had when I was a kid. Old Coleman flannel cotton sleeping bag. REI 3.5 self inflating camp bed. ISO propane stove. Backpacking pot set. A Gerber spade, and 36" splitting axe. 200' of poly rope. 5lbs of oatmeal. 2 gallon equivalent of powdered milk. A jar of peanut butter. Ratcheting tie straps and Finley platypus 2 liter hydration pack. And a folding camping chair. All on a SOG 35liter pack made out of fake kevlar. Final weigh in: 72 lbs. And I didn't even have everything I thought I needed.
Now (few weeks later)
my pack is now a Teton sports 65 liter. (Cheap Amazon bag)
Tent is a REI quarter dome 3 person
Sleeping bag is a marmot 11 synthetic.
Big agnus Q-core
Stove is now a MSR international.
Same pot set (wanting to upgrade)
Food is now all dehydrated veggies and meets with rice made by yours truly (still figuring out the dehydrator most are experiments) and also about 10 scoops of protein powder.
Currently dropped the platapus for my hydro flask 40oz
Leatherman super tool
REI backpacking chair
200' poly rope
Bible (nasb)
Journal (including pen)
Black diamond headlamp
Flask (J.B.)
Few grams and zig zags
Sewing kit
Duct tape
(Have not weighed yet)
Still wanting:
Water purification. Which I'm looking at platapus gravity works so I can double it as a camping shower bag.
Toiletries (figuring out storage and containers)
Hammock rain fly and bug net.
Open to other suggestions.
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In the beginning:
I remember my dad taking me out camping. Packing everything we needed and then some. We would be gone for a week and there was enough stuff for two weeks. So I thought as a kid. So when I started this idea my memory of my dad popped in and said "yeah, you know what that's a good idea!" Bought myself a 75 liter bag filled it with a tent which is a miniaturized display model that I had when I was a kid. Old Coleman flannel cotton sleeping bag. REI 3.5 self inflating camp bed. ISO propane stove. Backpacking pot set. A Gerber spade, and 36" splitting axe. 200' of poly rope. 5lbs of oatmeal. 2 gallon equivalent of powdered milk. A jar of peanut butter. Ratcheting tie straps and Finley platypus 2 liter hydration pack. And a folding camping chair. All on a SOG 35liter pack made out of fake kevlar. Final weigh in: 72 lbs. And I didn't even have everything I thought I needed.
Now (few weeks later)
my pack is now a Teton sports 65 liter. (Cheap Amazon bag)
Tent is a REI quarter dome 3 person
Sleeping bag is a marmot 11 synthetic.
Big agnus Q-core
Stove is now a MSR international.
Same pot set (wanting to upgrade)
Food is now all dehydrated veggies and meets with rice made by yours truly (still figuring out the dehydrator most are experiments) and also about 10 scoops of protein powder.
Currently dropped the platapus for my hydro flask 40oz
Leatherman super tool
REI backpacking chair
200' poly rope
Bible (nasb)
Journal (including pen)
Black diamond headlamp
Flask (J.B.)
Few grams and zig zags
Sewing kit
Duct tape
(Have not weighed yet)
Still wanting:
Water purification. Which I'm looking at platapus gravity works so I can double it as a camping shower bag.
Toiletries (figuring out storage and containers)
Hammock rain fly and bug net.
Open to other suggestions.
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