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My shorts have a reflective material on the logo, not that it’s very big but might help. In the event of an emergency it is likely I would be on the trail or just off the side and even in the dark would probably be hard to miss. Fingers crossed I don’t have any real emergencies that would warrant and search team!

I had a few cords - for my phone, headlamp, garmin inreach and watch. I also had a 15000 mAh battery to charge when not in town.

I agree, that’s why you pack for the conditions. If the conditions were different I would have packed differently. Southern Virginia was experiencing a drought when I went through there and we sometimes had 20 miles between water sources, at that point we had to carry 4L of water, especially if we were not camping near water.

They’re on the same level, the tent takes up most of the space and the rain jacket is packed in around it.

Why are you so angry?

I started in May so never ran into any cold weather, not that it wasn’t possible to. I did start with a puffy and long sleeve merino wool t shirt but sent them home not to far into the trail. I did not carry a stove for the first 700 miles but after many nights of cold ramen I finally got one, a snowpeak stove that sucked.

Yes, made of xpack I believe

No knife

Lol I think you are the second person to say that

Not in June and July, it rarely got below 50° at night

Headlamp was the nitecore NU25, my cook kit was a plastic jar that I used for cold soaking for the first 700 miles, then picked up a snowpeak stove (it sucked). I normally use a BRS stove from Amazon. First aid kit was much lighter than most people would like. No repair kit

I agree every ounce does count, but there are plenty of people that do the entire AT (2200 miles) with a 50+ pound pack. Most thru hikers are probably in the 20-30 pound range without any food or water.

@@Jacob.Towsley yeah I figured that I'm one of the people that likes to have everything I need and I was just quoting my friend but then again he was a pretty skinny not muscular guy so for him I would understand

To each their own. I think the best way to figure out what works best is to just experiment. When you get back from a trip and unpack keep a list of all the items you unpack that you didn’t use and then try the next trip not bringing that item.

Probably some loss grass at the bottom of the pack or threads coming loose after a lot of use. The only other thing I could think of is that there is a small zipper pocket on the back of the shorts like most running shorts big enough for a key but too small for a phone.

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@@Jacob.Towsley thank you very much 😃😃😃

Lol never thought of it that way. It’s definitely the setup I’ll be using for the foreseeable future other than in cold weather.

Got to find whatever is comfortable for you. I made a friend on the AT who did the whole thing with a 50+ pound pack and enjoyed everything he carried. I also saw other people with sub 6 pound base weights who were happy too.

Resupply varies but I went into town every 3-5 days. If I needed to carry more food I would have used a 40L pack rather than a 35L but all the other gear would be the same.

Define Leisure? The Long Trail runs across Vermont, directly in the Green Mountains. Rocks and hills all the way. Not Leisure. You could hike to a lake or a river in Vermont for your Leisure, but it will still be rough going. Early October and I froze my butt at night in a tent. Start with the Molly Stark State park and camp grounds, great place for a day hike or overnighter.

Not sure exactly what you mean but the one part TH-cam was able to translate was about why filter the water in the forest. There are many reasons for filtering the water from streams and rivers, especially on the AT. The most important is to make sure the water is safe to drink. If an animal defecated upstream or an animal carcass was left upstream, you could have pathogens in your water that would make you very sick. Along the AT you go through many farm fields and cattle pastures. Even with a filter I still avoid getting water from streams downhill from those areas.

I had a Nitecore NU25 headlamp for a light source at night. When I started in May some nights would get cold and I often slept in and started hiking in a long sleeve merino wool shirt. After the Smokys I wasn’t worried about being too cold, I was worried about being too hot. By that point summer was in full swing and once I hit Virginia, even reliable water sources were dry. At that point I started to carry 2 1L water bottles and my water filter (katadyn befree) also had a 1L soft bottle with it so 3L water storage in total. Sometimes it was 10-15 miles between water sources.

I did the first 700 miles cold soaking with a plastic jar similar to a talenti ice cream container. I picked up a stove Daleville VA, it was a lightweight snowpeak stove and it sucks. Cost maybe $50 so not a high end one but cost more than my normal stove, a BRS from Amazon, which was $15 when I bought it a few years ago. I haven’t had good luck with snowpeak and will probably stay away from them in the future. My go to cook kit is a BRS stove from Amazon and a 1L pot from Amazon, I believe it is aluminum, not sure the brand.

That’s why this kit was specifically for the AT, I didn’t say it was for the UK and it’s miserable weather. Although I probably wouldn’t change much about it.

Lol you are probably not wrong. I think I got it for around $650 but it’s currently $669 - definitely not a cheap tent, but you can get a very similar one called the Lanshan 1 off of Amazon for $140. You just have to seal the seams yourself which isn’t too hard.

Any bear on the east coast will be a black bear, which are much more afraid of you then you are of them. Just got to stand up tall, wave your arms over your head and yell at them and they will run. Definitely not a situation to mess around with but also not all that dangerous. At least with most black bears, just watch out for ones who are habituated with humans and like to steal food.

My tent is the Zpacks Altaplex, a 1 person 3 season tent weighing just under a pound. I opted to sleep in shelters when available, especially when raining. It’s a lot easier to set up and pack up in a shelter and don’t have to worry about a wet tent. I had a puffy jacket and long sleeve merino wool shirt that I sent home after the first few weeks of May. Most of my hiking was done in June and July so there wasn’t any need for warmer clothes.

Then I have to collect wood to cook with at the end of the day. That sounds like more walking.

@@Jacob.Towsley i was thinking of it also as a trusty companion. Be well

Lol I guess it could be that too. It is nice to have a fire.

At home

And the dread _mothman!!_ 😮

They didn’t want to get near me, I smelled too badly. Kept me safe, but at what cost?

I guess technically it is. I consider it the back since it’s the farthest point behind me when I carry it. I use front pocket and back pocket interchangeably in this case since it’s really the only pocket on the outside so you get my meaning regardless

@@Jacob.Towsley hmmmmm…… so using your terminology the front goes against your back? C’mon, let’s get your terminology correct.

Either way it gets the message across

@@Jacob.Towsley how you do anything is how you do everything.

What kinda fishing pole

No bug repellent?

@@dorothygoron5824 gives me breathing issues and I don’t like how sticky it makes me feel

​@@dorothygoron5824😂😂😂

First time in my life I learn about Ocarina.

Lol the extra clothes were primary for when I was doing laundry in town so I could go get groceries without being arrested

Completely agree. Thank you for such a thoughtful comment. I have added a stove back into my gear list and depending on the trip will sometimes bring a book. It’s all about what works for you and if the benefit outweighs having to carry it, then put it in the pack.

@@Jacob.Towsley I can recommend an e-reader for that purpose! They're about the weight of a phone? My spare-time items are pages ripped from a swedish puzzle book 👌

Unfortunately I don’t like reading from a screen, it just doesn’t feel the same as a book in your hand. If it was for a longer trip I might consider taking the chapters apart and only bringing a few at a time and sending the rest ahead in the mail.

For body massages I highly recommend carrying a dollar store face roller (found one at a thrift store and saved $3) because it’s just a smaller back roller that fits in my backpack.

@AmazingRebel23 I know people use lacrosse balls or cork massage balls too. They’re lightweight and small, especially the cork

Allergy meds, ibuprofen, and some tums. That’s it

Why is everyone so obsessed with the tp. Obviously you can get more in towns and if you take the cardboard cylinder out from the middle it packs down much smaller. I had plenty of tp don’t worry

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Because they are running shorts they have a liner in them, so I didn’t wear any underwear. They basically had the underwear built in, so in having an extra pair of shorts I basically had an extra pair of underwear and an extra pair of shorts.

It was in the food bag yea. BRS stove and a cheap pot off Amazon is what I normally use. I did cold soak for the first 700 miles tho and would not recommend it

Guys please think about it, you can buy more tp in towns. I don’t need to carry all of it from the start.