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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Gearing up

Posted on 11:04 AM by Unknown

I'm thinking a lot about backpacking gear recently, as I'm about two weeks away from my summer trip.

So, I went back through Tom Fassbender's astonishingly great trip report from his John Muir Trail hike, and just extracted all the gear links that he mentioned.

In no particular order (well, to be precise, in the order of publication of his daily reports), we have:

  • Exotac NanoStriker Firestarter
  • vaseline-soaked cotton balls
  • Black Diamond Z Poles
  • SPOT Connect
  • Mountain House spaghetti with meat sauce
  • trail guide
  • sleeping bag
  • Andrew Skurka’s book
  • Patagonia Down Sweater
  • Starbucks Via
  • bear canister
  • tarp tent
  • Osprey Exos 58
  • there’s a book for that
  • Western Birds
  • Aqua Mira
  • MSR Hyperflow
  • Guyout squishy bowl
  • The John Muir Trail: Through the Californian Sierra Nevada
  • alcohol stoves
  • Trail Designs
  • mosquito head net
  • great kindling
  • Jetboil
  • California Field Notes
  • Original Buff
  • Platypus Platy Bottles
  • GU Roctane
  • wag bag
  • Aether 70
  • Baltoro 75
  • light hikers
  • John Muir Trail Basic Needs: Water
  • John Muir Trail Basic Needs: Food

As you'll notice when you follow the links, some of them are links to pages with further links, so there's lots to read.

Anyway, thanks again to Tom Fassbender for the great posts!

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