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Gear for Mt. Whitney day-hike
This is the gear I brought for day-hiking the main Whitney trail:
Yes, I know this is waaaaaay more gear than is necessary. See below for what I'd use if I was to do this hike again.
Food:
- 8 packages Spiz, 500 Kcal each - I used 5 of them
- 12oz beef jerkey - I ate about 1/2 of it
- contents of 1 large can of lightly-salted peanuts - barely touched
- 10oz pretzel bits - barely touched
- 16oz gummy bears/worms - mostly eaten
- 8 Clif Bars - 2 eaten
- 8 Power Gels - 1 eaten, 1 given away
Other:
- Nylon pants - not used
- Nylon windbreaker - not used
- Tevas - I'm soooooo glad I brought these!
- Notebook & pen
- Iodine tablets and iodine taste neutralizer tablets - not used
- Small medical kit - used the moleskin (awful stuff - Scholl's is much
better), nothing else
- Pur Hiker water filter - received a good deal of use
- 100oz CamelBak water bladder
- Petzl Zoom headlamp w/3 batteries -
only 1 battery used, halogen bulb worked extremely well
- Petzl Tikka LED headlamp - not used
- 2AA-cell Mini-Maglite - not used
- 4 spare AA batteries for lights and talkabout - not used
- Sunglasses
- Coppertone Ultra Sport SPF 45 sunscreen - one application did the job
- Dermatone
SPF 23 medicated lip balm - conveniently attached to a caribeener
- Band-Aid "Blister Block" cushions - not used. Barry said they didn't
work worth beans.
- Compass - not used
- Bug repellant - not used
- Hunting knife - not used
- Instant hand sanitizer
- TP
- Ibuprofen - took 6
- Aspirin - took 4
- Trowel
- Emergency "space" blanket - not used
- Sony DSC-F505V digital camera w/4 memory sticks and 2 extra batteries
- Canon S300 digital elph camera
- mini-tripod
Brought, but left in car:
- Fuzzy gloves
- Fleece pullover
- The usual car camping stuff
Next time, if there is a next time, I'd try to
travel much lighter, packing:
- Iodine tablets/anti-iodine tablets
- Small first-aid kit
- Aspirin/Ibuprofen
- Handfull of Clif Bars and Power Gels
- 2 liters of water storage (2/3 full 100oz bladder or 2 1l Nalgene
bottles)
- Petzl Zoom headlamp w/1 spare battery
- "Space" blanket
- Trowel
- Tevas
- Notebook & pen
- Cold weather gear as dictated by the forecast
- Canon S300 digital elph
- mini-tripod
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