My Gear List
Posted: Wed 27 May, 2009 11:43 pm
Though I'd post my gear list and brief comments on my recent Tassie adventure (2/12/08-19/3/09) with most time spent in the southwest (SWC Circuit, SC Track,PB via Moonlight Ridge and out NR Inlet, Mt.Anne Circuit, Eastern & Western Arthurs) as well as The Labyrinth, WOJ, Mt. Fields, Freycinet, Mariah Is., South Bruny, & Tasman P.. It stood up to all conditions including two blizzards (although without the Dixon's Kingdom hut I doubt I'd be here to tell the tale), hurricane conditions at Cox Bight on 22/1, and the infamous Arthur Plains flood of 24/2-26/2 (nearly drowned crossing Strike Creek !).
Pack: GG Mariposa Plus (Yes, the outside mesh took a beating, but repairing it gave me something to do)
Tent: Tarptent Contrail (w/rear strut) or Double Rainbow (DR used in Arthurs, Mt. Anne Circuit, Freycinet)
Sleeping Bag: Montbell UL SS Hugger #1 (a godsend for a thrash sleeper like me)
Sleeping Pad: Big Agnes Insulmat or Clearview, w/BA pumphouse (PITA)
Shoes: Inov-8 Roclite 390's (Too hard to dry because of Packlite membrane,ditched)
Inov-8 Rolite 315's (Excellent, my go to shoe, scampered up Federation with them even though they were disintegrating at the time)
Inov-8 Flyrock 310's(Good for cycling & light bushwalking)
Dawgs camp shoes
OR Cascadia Gaiters
I used Sole footbeds with all shoes. The sole material of the Inov-8's provided excellent grip on dolorite and granite, not as much on quartzite.
Stove: Trail Design, Red Bull backup (except for the occasional meal of mussels, just used to boil water)
Fuel: Metho in .5L Platypus w/BPL squirt top
Cookset: Highly modified Caldera Keg, Freezer Bags (I like Glad because they stand up to boiling water better, so, Get Glad ! Whoo-hoo !) in custom cozy, BPL Titanium spoon, Evernew 300ml ti mug (double walled, I like my cuppa to stay hot)
Food: Re-packaged off the shelf stuff from Cole's and Woolie's ecxept for the excellent pineapple I found washed up and lying on the beach in front of the middens in Stephenson Bay
Drybags: OR Hydroseal 13L (sleeping Bag)
OR Hydroseal 8L (clothing)
Aloksak Large (food)
Trash compactor bag pack liner
Hydration: 750ml w/squirt top and 1L Franklin water bottles (bought 2/12 and used whole trip !)
Hat: OR Windstop Beanie
REI nylon brimmed hat
Gloves: Patagonia liners (so-so) or EMS liners (the nuts !)
Rain Mitts: MLD eVent (good for wind only, sucked in any kind of rain)
Rain/Wind Jacket: OR Zealot
Thermal Jacket: Montbell Thermawrap (Synthetic & fairly bulletproof) or EMS Ascent Liner (GD & warmer, but a little fragile)
Windshirt: Patagonia Houdini (How do I love thee, let me count the ways)
Rain/Wind Pants: Golite Reed Pants (really dew/wind pants)
Tops: Icebreaker 140 T-shirt
Smartwool Microweight Zip-T
Smartwool Midweight Zip-T
Bottoms: EMS Convertible Pants (only worn as shorts)
Under Armour Boxer Briefs
Patagonia Capilene 300wt Full Length Bottoms
Socks: 3 pairs Darn Tough (the best, baby !)
2 pairs EMS X-Static liners (the secret weapon)
Trekking poles: GG Litetrek IV (Superb ! I walk with only one, but carry two for Contrail set-up)
Misc: TP (cut down and folded blue "shop" towels),Torch (Fenix LOD, da best, I could spot possum's heading for my food stash at 50 meters,those *&%$#! !), Victorinex mini (scissors/file/blade), good tweezers, compass & relevant maps, mucho spare matches, very basic first aid kit (mainly painkillers of every description), needles & thread,compact digital camera, Kelty triptease cord, line loks (check them out !),rite-in-rain journal w/stubby pencil, spare batteries,safety pin/clothespins,sunglasses, toothbrush w/baking soda, small squeeze bottle of Dr. Bronners soap, AquaMira decanted into small BPL dopper containers (rarely used),MSR small packcloth... and on.
I'm probably forgetting some things and some items were stashed (I didn't carry multiple tents,sleeping mats, or shoes, of course).
The most my gear weighed (on Par Avion scale) was 15.1K and that was with 20 days food (10 days to be left in Melaleuca) ,water,and 2L Metho (before PA took it). Probably my pack averaged around 10K most of the time, not that I much cared. Btw, my weight on arriving in Tassie was 76K and bottomed out two months later at 61K. A stretch of 43 out of 46 days in the bush will do that to you !
A great trip with no worries, and if only that ranger on the OT that I'd fallen thunderstruck in love with last year had given me the time of day this time around, I'd still be in fair Tassie !
Pack: GG Mariposa Plus (Yes, the outside mesh took a beating, but repairing it gave me something to do)
Tent: Tarptent Contrail (w/rear strut) or Double Rainbow (DR used in Arthurs, Mt. Anne Circuit, Freycinet)
Sleeping Bag: Montbell UL SS Hugger #1 (a godsend for a thrash sleeper like me)
Sleeping Pad: Big Agnes Insulmat or Clearview, w/BA pumphouse (PITA)
Shoes: Inov-8 Roclite 390's (Too hard to dry because of Packlite membrane,ditched)
Inov-8 Rolite 315's (Excellent, my go to shoe, scampered up Federation with them even though they were disintegrating at the time)
Inov-8 Flyrock 310's(Good for cycling & light bushwalking)
Dawgs camp shoes
OR Cascadia Gaiters
I used Sole footbeds with all shoes. The sole material of the Inov-8's provided excellent grip on dolorite and granite, not as much on quartzite.
Stove: Trail Design, Red Bull backup (except for the occasional meal of mussels, just used to boil water)
Fuel: Metho in .5L Platypus w/BPL squirt top
Cookset: Highly modified Caldera Keg, Freezer Bags (I like Glad because they stand up to boiling water better, so, Get Glad ! Whoo-hoo !) in custom cozy, BPL Titanium spoon, Evernew 300ml ti mug (double walled, I like my cuppa to stay hot)
Food: Re-packaged off the shelf stuff from Cole's and Woolie's ecxept for the excellent pineapple I found washed up and lying on the beach in front of the middens in Stephenson Bay
Drybags: OR Hydroseal 13L (sleeping Bag)
OR Hydroseal 8L (clothing)
Aloksak Large (food)
Trash compactor bag pack liner
Hydration: 750ml w/squirt top and 1L Franklin water bottles (bought 2/12 and used whole trip !)
Hat: OR Windstop Beanie
REI nylon brimmed hat
Gloves: Patagonia liners (so-so) or EMS liners (the nuts !)
Rain Mitts: MLD eVent (good for wind only, sucked in any kind of rain)
Rain/Wind Jacket: OR Zealot
Thermal Jacket: Montbell Thermawrap (Synthetic & fairly bulletproof) or EMS Ascent Liner (GD & warmer, but a little fragile)
Windshirt: Patagonia Houdini (How do I love thee, let me count the ways)
Rain/Wind Pants: Golite Reed Pants (really dew/wind pants)
Tops: Icebreaker 140 T-shirt
Smartwool Microweight Zip-T
Smartwool Midweight Zip-T
Bottoms: EMS Convertible Pants (only worn as shorts)
Under Armour Boxer Briefs
Patagonia Capilene 300wt Full Length Bottoms
Socks: 3 pairs Darn Tough (the best, baby !)
2 pairs EMS X-Static liners (the secret weapon)
Trekking poles: GG Litetrek IV (Superb ! I walk with only one, but carry two for Contrail set-up)
Misc: TP (cut down and folded blue "shop" towels),Torch (Fenix LOD, da best, I could spot possum's heading for my food stash at 50 meters,those *&%$#! !), Victorinex mini (scissors/file/blade), good tweezers, compass & relevant maps, mucho spare matches, very basic first aid kit (mainly painkillers of every description), needles & thread,compact digital camera, Kelty triptease cord, line loks (check them out !),rite-in-rain journal w/stubby pencil, spare batteries,safety pin/clothespins,sunglasses, toothbrush w/baking soda, small squeeze bottle of Dr. Bronners soap, AquaMira decanted into small BPL dopper containers (rarely used),MSR small packcloth... and on.
I'm probably forgetting some things and some items were stashed (I didn't carry multiple tents,sleeping mats, or shoes, of course).
The most my gear weighed (on Par Avion scale) was 15.1K and that was with 20 days food (10 days to be left in Melaleuca) ,water,and 2L Metho (before PA took it). Probably my pack averaged around 10K most of the time, not that I much cared. Btw, my weight on arriving in Tassie was 76K and bottomed out two months later at 61K. A stretch of 43 out of 46 days in the bush will do that to you !
A great trip with no worries, and if only that ranger on the OT that I'd fallen thunderstruck in love with last year had given me the time of day this time around, I'd still be in fair Tassie !