Final gear list for PCT hike.

• Mountainsmith Ghost backpack lined with white plastic garbage bag (Love this pack. It broke and I hiked with a Mountainsmith CDT while it was repaired.)
• Marmot Helium 15 degree sleeping bag stuffed in to a clear plastic bag- This bag kept me toasty warm while camping under the stars on high windy crests. I was never cold yet sometimes I was too warm.)
• Z-Rest full length closed cell pad (Great pad that I whipped out to lay on during my breaks and allowed me to cowboy camp with out a ground cloth.)
• Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo with pole and tent stakes. 1 1/2 lb shelter with cooking porch and big enough for me and all my stuff)
• Black Diamond Pearl headlamp (wouldn’t go back to hiking without a 1 watt led again)
• Silver Swing Liteflex EuroSchirm trekking umbrella (better and lighter hiking umbrella then the Golite Chrome Dome)
• Nalagene 16 oz wide mouth bottle
• 1 1/2 liter disposable bottle (Duct tape wrapped around bottle) Extra cap with a hole in it to use as hiker bidet
• Polycarbonate spoon
• Nylon Food bag lined with an oder proof liner
• Sil-nylon clothes bag (doubles as pillow)
• Emergency space-blanket and fire starting kit (fuel tablets and a bic lighter) Never used this stuff
• Whistle and Photon light on a clip.
• Sunglasses with strap (Actually, I lost my sunglasses. I lost at least 5 pairs of sunglasses)
• Reading glasses
• small camp towel (Important for wiping the condensation off of the tent walls and for drying off after a shower)
• Office (large plastic ziplock)
• cell phone and charger (First time I have carried a cell phone. I liked having it)
• pen and small notebook
• maps and guide book sections
• Casio Compass/Altimeter watch (most accurate altimeter watch I have ever owned)
• Iriver 2g Mp3 player and fm radio with headphones (worked well)

• Sunblock
• Callus file
• Chapstick tube
• Tube of Carmex for my feet
• brush head
• toothbrush (child’s size)
• toothpaste
• Dental floss with needle in side.
• super glue (important for gluing the cracks in my feet together)
• classic swiss army knife
• Aqua Mira water treatment
• Keeper menstrual cup
• First aid kit

• Bandaids
• Neosporin plus Pain Relief
• Benedryl
• Claritin
• Ibuprofen
• asprin
• Decongestants
• Pepto Bismal tablets
• Ace Bandage
• Amoxicillin
• Flagyl
• Sulfameth Trimethoprim

• REI Ultralight raincoat and rain pants(switched to these after my Drop Stoppers disintegrated and before I headed in to wet and brushy Washington.)These were kind of heavy but I needed some rain gear and just bought what they had. When it was rainy and brushy I kept my hiking pants dry in my backpack and only wore my rain pants for days.
• 4 way fleece balaclava (Usually wore it to bed. Would not leave home without it.)
• Neoprene socks (1 Pair) (Really nice to have while postholing over Muir Pass also when my feet were getting dried out)
• Wool socks (1 pair)
• Light socks (1 pair)
• Bug head net (Never used it)
• Garbage bag rain skirt ( More functional than rain pants, when it is warm.)
• Fleece Glo-mitts (great)
• Mountain Hardwear Hiking pants
• Mountain Hardwear canyon shirt
• Sunday Afternoon Adventure hat
• Pantagonia Sport top
• One pair of Synthetic underwear
• Summer Buff (Wore it all the time)
• Simms sun gloves (lost these somewhere but wished I hadn’t)
• Mont-Bell Therma-wrap jacket. (Not as warm as I had hoped, but really light)
• New Balance 817 running shoes with New Balance pressure relief insoles. (SL-2 last: wide in the toe box but narrow in the heel. Come in really wide sizes)
• Chaco Z-1 Sandals (I had to switch from Z-2’s to Z-1’s after 900 miles because of excessive thickening of the skin between my big toes) This is the first time I hiked with two pair of shoes; it was really nice to be able to switch shoes when my feet would get tired. I didn’t get any blisters.
  

I also carried a Cassin Ghost ice ax and a BearVault 350 bear canister from Kennedy Meadows(mile 702.8) to Echo Lake(mile1094.5). I also carried my ice ax through the Goat Rock Wilderness in Washington.