My Long Distance Adventure Hiking Kit

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how's it going this is Mitch with a native survival school say I'm going to go over my hiking kit base weight it's 26 pounds stay tuned you

before I pull out my kit go ahead and wait for 26.1 pounds all right top pocket buckle folding soft I have a map of the area as you hike New Hampshire and I usually make a zoomed-in map with my actual route but I plan on going I have my headlamp so Petzl my compass little piece of Kleenex you know those little bundles what about them leave myself in the forest hmm it's just part of my cook kit it's my MSR stove

I'll pull out the rest of that minute that's inside my part I keep all the time

that's that pocket now the other top pocket first aid kit inside it also have some spare batteries my headlamp my bear bag get some power cord up wrapped up inside of it so I can hang my foot up at night maybe as you're hiking the mountains so bear territory that's that thing else we'll talk pocket at all

all right pocket on the outside of my ruck this is where I put all my dirty clothes after after I wear them put all my like dirty laundry in that for water I use Sawyer squeeze it's the filter that goes with it that's totally key because it allows me to have water practically instantly from a water source I don't have to boil it I wait for it to cool down anything like that we've stopped during hikes because we need water a little water sources streams and things like that and just filled up our canteens drop the rock within 10 minutes we filled up our canteens and we left like you're already drank half a canteen you know boiling water that's not even going to come close in ten minutes you're still gonna be building a fire up trying to get to a boiling point I mean that's just crazy like I'm already gone see you later muddy drinking cold water this is my deodorant and I have my fella rod that's actually clipped the inside of this pocket happens to be Ray Mears car Road oh yeah that's that pocket so almost done

the outside pockets I have canteen the other side pocket I have a canteen each have mug so I have two cups two mugs all titanium very light very light I mean not to be understatement very light I can carry a good amount of water a real good amount of water this is like an insane amount of water it's not like I never drink the second canteen during a day when I'm hiking towards my camp or towards a destination when I do you know 10 11 miles in a day I drink both my canteens in that walk so yeah this is the proper amount for what I need on the go okay so last not least inside my bucket my ruck proper my camera bag my little camera pouch has a lens tissue

I'm Annie one that's done to film work knows what's in here probably my little dry bag

it's my anti-fog bag so I might put my leg lens get fall my lens gets fogged I throw it in this bag so I have two silver cans this is what everyone uses in the film for big productions nice to have an extra battery an extra memory card

all side

on escritura pouch great waterproof material now my friend Malcolm gave me fantastic ok next is my sleeping that nice accordion style by therm-a-rest Zi light nearing the end of my gear is the bottom of my shorts turns them into pants that's key I don't bring too much clothes but I bring enough where I'm comfortable

let's do clothes now we rock clothes ok so this is my kit including my clothes for a three-day hike so basically I'm looking at Friday Saturday Sunday what I'm wearing is Friday and you know could be well I mean we do 25 mile hikes in that time so 3 days that means that each day I wake up I'm gonna change my socks that is so key because obviously my feet are sweating all day and I need a nice clean pair soft in the morning that's Saturday and that's Sunday 72 pairs I'm wearing Friday and Saturday and Sunday for socks Saturday and Sunday for underwear right two pairs very important that I change into wear every day because I'm gonna build up moisture sweating all day and moisture causes your skin to get soft when your skin when your skin gets soft especially in your creases it starts wearing away it rubs off now I have chafing I have wounds you don't want that that's very bad very bad I mean I've actually had wounds where I've been bleeding from chafing so you got to be careful right so underwear every day that's my solution of that and a t-shirt each day two t-shirts right on so there's my pant bottoms I only carry one pair of those and a shirt for each day underwear for each day socks for each day now to finish off my clothes I have a single sweater that I use for a pillow at night or if I'm cold I wear it in my sleeping bag and then I have my last bit of clothing which is my rain shell so I have my rain pants and I have my rain jacket this is obviously very important because I need to be able to function even though it's pouring out because we've had to hike even though it's just down for having gear like this saves you and if it's warm what I do is I just don't put pants and everything else this is my only pants I wear I mean it's crazy pouring down rain I just these are my pants I don't wear pants oh honey so sweater okay so there's my rain gear that does it for clothes okay so here's the rest of my cook kit as I showed earlier this is the part of the stove that's the burner part of the stove the mechanism so here's my cooking pot has a nice ultra light stuff sack keeps everything clean inside my my rock so it gets dirty in here as a titanium pot very nice incredibly light in here I keep two bandanas one to keep me clean and cold if I'm really hot then I use it like cold water I put on my neck things like that I wash up with this and the other one I use to keep my pots and pans clean inside here I have the fuel that's the other half of my stove so sits on top of here take a little Bunsen burner then I just put my pots and pans on top of that whatever I'm gonna use to cook really simple keep it inside my my little cooking pot all right nearing the end here this is my tent

it's a Kelty tent it's happened to be The Tempest - not the best town in the world but surely gets the job done you know all this gear I have there's always something you can upgrade to there just there's always something it's kind of a never-ending process this is a really good tent that I'm liking so far has not done me wrong so I haven't put it through the wringer yet I still need some more work still need some more downpours to sit through still need some snow to sit through see how it works out but this is what I'm using for my hiking tent it's working really well last piece of the puzzle for my shelter kit is my sleeping bag this happens to be the military sleeping bag the green one they call it the patrol bag that's not sleeping bag all right in the last item in my kit waterproof New Testament really really enjoy reading this at night when I'm in the forest and my tent before I go to sleep I end up nodding off while I'm reading it nice good stuff okay so this is my kit 26 pounds it's pretty good for a base weight the only thing missing here is food and water I always see that changes depending on on the trip I didn't want to not have clothes be in here that changes per trip as well but three-day trips are what I do the most often enough so I just set that up as a three-day trip to give you a good idea of where my my kit is really at so 26 pounds is my base way being able to get my kit down to 26 pounds and being in the woods for three days hiking 25 miles

is a good thing 26 pounds is a pretty good week I can obviously get later there's no question about it like I said there's always something out there I saw a backpack recently on my last hike I was 12 miles in the woods at Thoreau Falls and the guy's rock was a one pound rock my rock is four pounds to one pound Rock now my rock is a hundred and ten liters it's a Kelty Red Cloud 110 I think his was 70 liters so it's like 40 litres smaller so I mean it that is a lot smaller 70 liters is still a huge rock though 70 liters the big rock and they have a one pound Rock is just ridiculous ridiculous if I had all this stuff I could fit it into that rock I would instantly go to 23 pounds so no I would lose yet I would lose three pounds obviously go to 23 pounds I cut three pounds off my weight just right off the top three pounds gone so that's how she something in the force over there that's how easy it is to find gear make upgrades and cut your weight now I mean that ruck was like four or five hundred dollars and he was huge 20 huge that just goes to show you that if I had that ruck and said this one I'd be at 23 pounds if I found other ways to cut down three more pounds up he had 20 pounds so it's actually not that hard really cut down your weight once you figure out what you really need so with this kit just as a quick summary I have a knife a tool cutting tool I have my fella rod so that's knife and fire for water I have a filter that can go straight from a water source I know boiling nothing like that there's my water part of my water as well is a titanium cook sir canteen yet part of my food preparation my stove cooking pot stove is key this is one of the most amazing pieces of gear I mean I can literally make food cup of coffee whatever I want instantly I mean really it's like screw it on here ignite it oh there we go I put my cup on there stop boiling water for coffee start setting up my tent or whatever I mean it's it's that fast I can make coffee while I'm breaking down my tent in the morning you can just stop drop rock and make a cup of coffee and be done in five minutes I mean you be still collecting kindling

you wouldn't be done you know making feather sticks yet and I'm already done making my coffee I mean it's like it's instant instant fire a couple minutes boil so this thing is kind of one of the all-stars of my kit so that is uh food water my tool fire I think I'm missing here with you my shelter and of course my first shelter is my clothes that would be my my layers of clothes I rain shell my sweater my pants and then just freshen up each day so I don't have a lot of moisture in my clothes and of course the rest of my shelf that would be my tent and inside there about my sleeping mat this one's crazy light it folds up nice and small and my sleeping bag to round out my tools I have a folding saw which is the Paco I mean if I'm 12 miles 15 miles whatever it is in the forest I want to have at least some tools with me on my knife and a folding saw an axe is just too heavy to carry folding saw can get a lot done and of course a headlamp as a tool my compass a bear bag which goes back to the food make sure my food is secure at night make sure I'm safe and the other tools I have going to call that would be Maps these are huge these are like insanely huge maps are absolutely amazing

all right first aid kit extra stuff would be tissues to relieve myself and dealer so there's a summary there it is that's my whole kit 26 pounds this keeps me going in the forest miles and miles and miles into the forest on my back 26 pounds and I'm hiking food and water adds a lot of weight I think the last hike like it was 34 pounds with food and water which isn't too bad it's higher than I wanted to be but for food and water that's a good number I mean it was like nothing extra when I left I didn't have any extra food I think I had my two granola bars left that's it so I managed my food very well my water was my two canteens filled up and that's it so my food and water allocate pounds for 25 miles that was it done deal so there it is 26 pounds for a base weight for any hike ready to go it's been Mitchell in a survival school shorts I got a website native 12.com and as always enjoy the outdoors with the latest kit you can have because the less weight you have in your shoulders the less calories you're going to burn the less water you're going to use a less chance you have a mechanical injury the less tired you get the further you can go the faster you can go the more miles you can crush out on the trails take care