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24-Hour Gear Lists

by the BackpackingLight.com Readership on May 10, 2011 Gear Lists

It was long-running and took some time to judge, but the 24 Series Gear List Contest is complete!

Results

  1. Jamie Shortt
  2. Darian Davis
  3. George Matthews
  4. Jeremy Gustafson and Dan Durston

Please click each list to see a full-res version of the winners (you’ll have to zoom), or download all the submissions here (3.5 MB zip file).

24-Hour Gear Lists

Jamie Shortt, first place

24-Hour Gear Lists - 1

Darian Davis, second place & George Matthews, third place.

24-Hour Gear Lists - 2

24-Hour Gear Lists - 3

Jeremy Gustafson, honorable mention & Dan Durston, honorable mention.

24-Hour Gear Lists - 4

24-Hour Gear Lists - 5

Thank you again to all who submitted! We have plans for Jamie’s list, but we’re keeping those under wraps for the time being…


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  • May 10, 2011 at 3:40 pm #1273619
    Addie Bedford
    BPL Member

    @addiebedford

    Locale: Montana

    Companion forum thread to:

    24-Hour Gear Lists

    May 10, 2011 at 8:25 pm #1735224
    Warren Greer
    Spectator

    @warrengreer

    Locale: SoCal

    Congrats to the winners.

    May 11, 2011 at 11:22 am #1735398
    Eric Blumensaadt
    BPL Member

    @danepacker

    Locale: Mojave Desert

    The 1st and 2nd place lists are far too personalized to be useful to others.

    Only the 3rd place winner is truly useful because its sub-categories are more generic.

    P.S. On loooking at other submissions I've found some very useful lists. Thanks for sponsoring the competition.

    May 12, 2011 at 12:32 am #1735680
    Marco A. Sánchez
    Member

    @marcoasn

    Locale: The fabulous Pyrenees

    +1 ;-)

    Cheers

    May 13, 2011 at 5:04 am #1736085
    Jamie Shortt
    BPL Member

    @jshortt

    Locale: North Carolina

    Wow! What a set of submissions, each one is really great in so many different ways. The creativity shown is impressive. I am honored just to have my submission read by the judges.

    Eric, I really like hearing peoples thoughts on how these lists might have been judged differently. What seemed like a simple exercise took more hours of my Chistmas vacation than I would ever admit. You hit the nail on the head with that item that I found the most challenging.

    Dealing with criteria #1 vs #2…

    1. Simplicity and applicability for a 24-hour trip.
    2. Generic-ness and ability to appeal to a wide audience without modification.

    For help with simplicity I drew apon this statement…"Your gear list should be as SIMPLE as possible and contain as few items as possible without sacrificing a great deal of comfort or safety."

    Since simplicity was listed first I focused on this then tested for the other requirement like Generic-ness. To achieve simplicity I selected poncho tarping as my technique. When "testing" the list I found I could swap techniques and use the list without modification. In this way I was satisfied with criteria #2.

    So for example…If my approach was "tenting" instead of "poncho tarping" all I did for the "Actuals" lines was to write in "Tarptent Moment" on the poncho tarp line, "None" on the bivy line, "precip jacket and pants" on the wind shirt line. I agree this isnt as generic as many of the other list, but this was how I addressed it.

    I learned a lot during this process and appreciate BPL for sponsoring the contest.

    Jamie

    Dec 2, 2017 at 11:38 pm #3505207
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    We should do this again. Interesting to see what fringe items then are even lighter today.

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