What Gear am I Using: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
In an earlier draft of my article, I realized that all of my pieces of gear fall into one of three categories. The Good, things that I like and plan to keep around, The Bad, gear that I don’t love but can’t replace due to time/money, and The Ugly, which is things that totally work but are super scuffed. Shoutout to my XXXL rain jacket poncho.
A general overview: my gear is put together on a (relatively) low budget. It’s designed to get me through a hike of the Superior Hiking Trail. Eventually, I’d like to upgrade it into a Pacific Crest gear list so some of the gear was bought with that in mind. It was created with the intent of having a 15 pound base weight for a total of 30 with food and water. I don’t know if I even got close to that, but that was the plan.
Continue reading to learn more about gear used to backpack, written by Owen Harries.
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스쿼드 멤버와 앰배서더부터 브랜드 파트너와 소이어 팀에 이르기까지 다양한 커뮤니티와 캠프파이어 대화를 나눕니다.
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Clothing and gear can be treated with a 0.5% permethrin spray, sold under names including Sawyer, Insect Shield and Ranger Ready.
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Sawyer’s picaridin lotion offers the longest protection windows on test — up to 14 hours against mosquitoes and ticks — and its creamy, low-odor formula goes on smooth and dries quickly.
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The Sawyer Squeeze and Cnoc Vecto made hydration easy.
