What do you hike with that nobody else has?

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I always carry an iron meteorite that I found when I was in Australia. It weighs in at 18.7 grams. Yup, I'm an astro-geek.

Hi David

I have a 6" Fuji one which looks very much like yours, but without the mm scale on the side. It lives on my desk, with my HP-32S. Neither are for sale! :-)

Cheers!

Lightweight teargas pen.

"And Polar bears who need to convert from Cartesian coordinates"

Clever, but I groaned anyway. Due to the lack of response I gather few math geeks are following this thread.

You lost me at "metric."

Such are the perils of a liberal arts education.

–B.G.–

" Due to the lack of response I gather few math geeks are following this thread."

Some groans are best appreciated in private.

I used to carry custom knives whose prices could be expressed in 3 significant figures.
My Atwood "tactical" whistle isn't unique, but there's probably not many backpackers carrying one.
http://www.atwoodknives.com/home/10959716.php

Not just any cozy, but MYOG cuben down baffled cozy.

Works great as a baby hat (from a GGG in Socal):

Steve

D: Especially Unique?

I use a closed cell foam float coat from boating for my primary warm coat. It is also my raincoat because the insulation isn't affected much by water. It is also part of my sleeping pad system.

C: MYOG

I carry a myog tent cozy for each of the tents I use that have mosquito netting on part of the inner tent (eg MSR Hubba Hubba HP).

It is simply a crudely fashioned bonnet made of uncoated ripstop that covers the mosquito netting portions of the tent. It makes the tent warmer and more like a tent with a solid (no mosquito netting) inner tent.

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Simple MYOG gaiters (11.5" tall, 10g each) made of light ripstop nylon. Just to keep the mud off my upper boots and lower pants. Did a 3-nighter last week and they worked well. Experimented with a Tyvek liner to stiffen them but don't think it's really necessary. They are narrow enough to stay up (mostly). Light enough that I leave them on all the time.

I was inspired to make this piece after Delmar, the only other person I know of who has one, posted the design of the DecaSpades:

I really like this for its function, price and weight.

Sometimes I carry a 1 pound book on tree/shrub identification.

My main hiking friend regularly carries 2 pairs of jeans on some trips.
Sometimes he carries a 28 inch chopping axe.
Sometimes he carries 2 cooking pots.
He also carries a large piece of glass used to smoke a controlled substance filtered through water and somehow manages to not break it.
Once he carried a 20 pound jepson manual on California plants, I think that thing had literally every plant that exists in california. But that was only 3 miles in.
He also hikes in high top, composite toe, side zip, hot weather combat boots.

Yeah, he is weird.

He doesn't sound as weird as some of those crazy gram weenie people you hear about!

;)