Best day hike gear list 🥾🥾 essentials for Tongariro Crossing and more
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- My best day hike gear list 🥾🥾 for Tongariro Crossing and more. All the essentials you need for your own big day out! Heading out for a day hike can be a great experience on its own as well as good training if you are planning an overnight or multi night trip as you start to get used to carrying a load and packing and unpacking and using your equipment.
As a teenager and right before my first backpacking trip, I remember seeing people with backpacks and being intensely curious as to what they took on their travels.
I was about to head away overseas and was still trying to figure it all out for myself. At that time i didn’t know anyone who was a backpacker and there wasn’t the easy access to online information like there is now.
For me, it was a case of very much experimental trial and error and I remember my goal being to keep the weight under 20 kilos so I’d not have to pay excess weight when flying! I shudder now at the thought of carrying that kind of weight but back then it was normal for me!
It’s not necessary to go out and buy special equipment just because you want to go on a day hike, use whatever you already have at home or can borrow off a friend.
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00:00 Introduction
00:12 Backpacking as a teenager, my experience
01:03 Day hiking pack
02:52 Essential equipment, Personal Locator Beacon PLB
04:03 Navigation on day hike
04:33 Hiking poles are an essential to me
04:49 Day hiking clothes
06:00 Day hiking shoes, using trail runners
06:50 Food essentials for day hike
07:24 Importance of having a car kit to come back to
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I’ve loved my trail runners since I started wearing them a couple of years ago. They are great when I have to cross a stream.
Agreed totally, I’ll not be going back to boots full time. The weight difference is huge also 🥾🥾
Really enjoy your videos
Thanks Crunchy, great to have your support 😀
Thanks for this will be watching your clips and adopting them for cycling in NZ and elsewhere
You’re more than welcome 😃, you might also like these bikepacking videos
Trail Rides, Cycle Trails, Rail Trails
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That was so good for me. I really appreciate this advice considering I hike and what I need in it. I like your bike pack as it's really ideal for it's many advantages my little pack doesn't have. I will make a list after watching this. Thankyou. I am sure all this will prove to be a difference and also for the ' just in case moments '. Much appreciated. 🍁🍂🌻💚
You’re more than welcome, hopefully the only “just in case moments” you encounter are the addition of a chocolate bar rather than a delay on the track 😀🍫🥾💚 My luxury is I enjoy a cuppa, even in the heat of summer 🌺
Great video, I like to be prepared and have my essential
Clothing for all weather and a head torch.. you never know you might get delayed on the track and need it. My next hike will be in spring to Tasmania on a 4 day hike
Thanks for watching, will you be in the Cradle Mountain park, it looks a great hiking area? 😀
I seem to cause my own delays with filming and just enjoying the scene. So hard in winter too with the shorter days 🔦🥾😄
@@FreewheelingKiwi yep winter with the shorter days is a bit more challenging. I’ll be doing three capes first then going back in dec for Cradle Mountain and The Freycinet circuit. Then hopefully all going well back to Fiordland to do The Kepler in Jan 😊
@@thirstymercfan fabulous ! I’m not yet familiar with the Capes, it’s many years since I’ve been in Tassie and at that time travel was hindered by snow ☃️
Proper hiking/trekking shoes are one of the most important pieces of gear. Its the only piece of gear i wont cheap out on.
I love the idea of car kit with food, but im paranoid a bear will break into my car HAHA. Its one of the things i like about new zealands nature. No wild bears or cougars that im aware of.
Do you have wild animals in new zealand that people need to be aware of? Aside from mosquitos 😆
True I didn’t even think of bears 🧸. We’ve no predators in NZ, though as well as mosquitos in some areas there’s the ever evil sandflies and around the Nelson Lakes, the wasps can be a nuisance.
The first time you’re woken by a possum in a tree above your tent you’d think you’re about to be attacked as they make a shocking noise 😬😲These pests though are unlikely to harm you though they create havoc for the native trees, birds and reptiles, stealing eggs and all sorts. Thanks for watching 🙏
Do you ever carry a light weight tarp in case of emergencies, such as fast moving storms? Or are you not worried so much, on day hikes. Very informative post, thanks for your knowledge. Take care, stay safe.
Hi Lex, that’s a great point and yes at times I do though not only for storms but also, just to have shelter on a rainy day so there’s somewhere to rest and have some food. It rains so much here and in the forest, even when the rain has stopped, the trees are dripping 🌳🌲🌳
Umm. So at 60+ years old, my wife and I want to try this hike, but where are the potty stops???
Great question, theirs toilets at each end plus four along the trail. Enjoy it 😀