Hey, everybody.
I'm a lifelong car camper, day hiker and canoer. I recently decided that I wanted to leave the car behind and get into backpacking and, for a lot of reasons, that I should go light. However, since I'm new to this, I didn't want to spend a lot of money, so I went through a ton of gear that I've accumulated, and purchased one key item based on a lot of reading on this site and others: a GoLite Jam2.
I'll be doing 2 to 4 day trips in the Angeles Crest Forest in Southern California, and Parts of New York and New Jersey, all this summer. [Edit: multiple trips of 2-4 days each, not 2-4 trips of one day's duration.] For the East Coast part of the trip, I could plan on having another 2 lbs of rain gear.
So here's my gear list for my first backpacking trip ever, with a base pack weight under 14 lbs. I know I could lose 5 pounds with bag and pad alone, but I've spent all I'm going to spend for these trips. Please let me know if I forgot the rope stretcher or something important.
Thanks in advance for all your help and all the help I've gotten from this site already.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=thV74X8K2gZuIu0AANOTklw
