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
- Tums
- 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.
March 4th, 200810:47 pm at
First visit to your site. Interesting. Thank You.