@bobmny10562 Good call on the map I didn’t account for that on weight while it would likely just live in my pant pocket it should be on there. Rain gear would just be just the Houdini. I found the Frogg Toggs I took on round 1 unecessary for the short duration rain and summer conditions. There is a fleece there the MEC T3 coupled with the Houdini thats warm enough fur summer (avg. temps up there were 12-18c) Also didn’t account for the compass I just used a Suunto button compass but it still weighs something! Thanks!
@book Re Bear spray its mandatory here we have 7000 black bears on the island alone and in this part of the island decent wolf and cougar populations as well. I didn’t have to use either the bear spray or banger on this trip but a lady who was just a hair behind us in time did as she extolled when she caught up to us at one point. I didn’t have the Deschutes (I just ordered it) on round 1 (I used a Hornet 1p) but it would have been just fine, it rained 3 times at night but very calm and mostly straight down I was shocked how calm the conditions were given we camped every night on the beach save for one inland site. I wore xUltra II light trail shoes, the dg gaitors and nylon paints I got muddy, real muddy but I didn’t mind wet feet and the combo did an excellent job of keeping the mud out of my shoes (which would suck). At camp I would zip off the bottoms and rinse them off along with the shoes and gaitors and go barefoot, worked great. I was the only only person of the three of us with zero foot issues while my partners had blister and pain issues… They wore boots and big gaitors.
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