Misc
- permits
- highway maps to area
House
- backpack with pocket on strap
- pocket knife
- headlamp
- spare
batteries for headlamp
- first aid kit
- sunscreen
- bug
repellent
- lip balm
- sunglasses
- bandanas
- a trash
bag or two
- timepiece/watch
- journal and pencil
- map and
compass (altimeter?)
- field guides
- day hike bag
- pack cover
Kitchen
- kitchen bag with
- stove
- fuel
- matches
- lighter
- cup
(metal or lexan)
- spoon, plastic
- pot with lid
- biodegradable
soap
- scrup pad in ziplock sandwich bag
- 50 ft orange nylon line
for hanging said bag
- bandana
- bowl (optional)
- bear
can, if hiking in Sierras
Pantry
- water filter
- 2
Nalgene bottles or camelback and 1 Nalgene bottle
- sports water bottle
- Cliff
Bars, 1 per day
- Oatmeal packets, 2 per day
- beef jerky,
Bathroom
- toilet paper (half a roll) in ziplock bag
- cathole shovel, unless going
to camp where bathroom exists, in ziplock bag
- empty ziplock bag for packing
out paper
- toothbrush and toothpaste, floss
Bedroom
- Thermarest
- sleeping bag
- rain shelter (tent, bivy bag, tarp)
- ground
cloth, if necessary
Wardrobe
- Boots/hiking shoes
- Synthetic
socks
- nylon pants with zip-off pantlegs
- synthetic shortsleeve
shirt
- synthetic longsleeve shirt, longjohn top
- fleece layer
- underwear,
preferably synthetic
- Sock liners (optional)
- sun hat
- warm
hat
- rain coat
- rain pants
- rain gloves
- warm gloves,
if cool outside
- longjohn bottoms