Wonderland Trail July gear list

[Stephen Parks]

Here's my first draft of my gear list for the Wonderland Trail starting July 20.

This may be be heavy on insulation, but I don't have many options (1 pad, 1 quilt). The silk long underwear doesn't have to go, just trying to keep the sleeping bag clean.

All suggestions welcome!

Wonderland Trail Gear List Rev 0

[Steven Paris]

It looks good! The only things I saw:

(1) you could switch out gloves to something for warmth rather than toughness as you shouldn't need the Gorilla Grip-style gloves,
(2) I would guess 1 canister for your stove is enough but that depends on your cooking style,
(3) I don't think you'll need the baskets for your poles but, again, that's not really going to affect your overall weight. It's just another thing to keep track of.

I think the quilt + pad combo is fine; too.

Have fun!

[Charles Claassen]

I see the low hanging fruit as the camera, since I use my iPhone as a camera. Not sure what your timeline is, but on my iPhone 4s I get 7 solid days of power on airplane mode with brightness turned almost all the way down and a dark wallpaper.

I'm not a wind shirt wearer. Personally, I'd be okay in the long-sleeved power dry shirt hiking in cool windy weather. If it were too cool for that I'd probably wear my OR helium 2. If I were doing the Wonderland in late July, I'd be hiking in short sleeves, though. It's been really warm here lately, and has been all through the spring.

Regarding bugs: some camps are buggier than others. For the weight, I'd bring the headnet and a .5oz picaridin for cooking, or while at camp and not in your tent. On the move you should be okay.

I would take either the buff or the beanie, but probably not both for this time of year.

Only you can decide if your cocoon pillow is worth the 3.52oz vs using your puffy/other packed clothing in a stuff sack. Similarly, the booties seem like a comfortable luxury rather than necessity. Your choice!

The e-lite will be fine if you don't need to hike and find your way with it and are just using it around camp. You won't really need it from 5:30AM until 9PM. Northern latitudes plus summer equals long days!

I will not argue against having a map and compass if you will be spending much time in the forest off the trail, or even to have as in-camp reading material, looking ahead, looking back. If you don't want the weight, and won't be using it for daily navigation, I would suggest using Phil Endecott's Topo Maps app. The GPS works on airplane mode, too.

[Mike M]

list looks solid :)

A few things I'd probably change/:

I'd probably ditch all of the "sleep wear", you have extra boxers and socks to get into- you almost certainly won't need them for warmth- especially the down booties

I bring a pillow, but it's a Flexair @ 0.8 oz, can be wrapped w/ a Buff or down/syn garment- cost is next to nothing

I'd echo the iphone camera idea, I added Gaia software to mine- so I've nixed both camera and a gps for some decent savings

go to a print shop that has waterproof paper (write in the rain-comes in different sizes) and have them copy the map you have, all of my maps for the Bob Open doing this came in under an ounce- the original map was north of 4 ounces

your TP sounds a wee bit heavy- for three days using paper shop towels cut up , they are much tougher, can be wetted w/o any tearing/falling apart and you'll use a lot less-mine was just an ounce and had leftover

have fun!

[Edward Jursek]

I would lose the puffy jacket.

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