Trip Preperation: Gear

Gear is the most important part of backpacking--It can make a difference between enjoying your trip or coming back miserable.

Since the weather in the mountains is just about guaranteed to be crazy this time of year, I will not be skimping on gear to make my pack lighter. I may have to wait out storms in my shelter, so I have opted for a tent instead of a bivy this time. Waiting out a storm in a bivy is not that great of an idea. So, this is the basics of what I am taking:

Mountain Hardwear PCT2 tent
REI women's downtime 15* bag
Blue sleeping pad cut to about 3/4 size
Homemade alcohol stove and heet as fuel
water filter
Kelty Comanche 4300 backpack
flat stake(as a digging tool) and TP, and other toiletries
Petzel headlamp
boots
First Aid stuff
Compass, maps, whistle
small folding knife
food (see below)
titanium spork and cooking pot
clothes line
bear bagging line
clothes---not decided on yet
lighter/matches
sack for hanging food