Photos of All Your Gear Laid Out

[Ryan Jordan]

Before almost every trip, I do this. I also know a lot of you do it, because I’ve seen you post your photos :D so I thought it would be fun to start a collection of these as a forum thread. Here’s my latest:

Just noticed that my trekking shirt, pants, underwear, socks, and baseball hat aren’t in here – dang! Otherwise it looks like enough stuff for backpacking, and should still be less than 10 pounds or so.

[Matthew / BPL]

Hey guys – Ryan Jordan doesn’t cut the handle off his toothbrush. Pass it on!

;)

[Paul Magnanti]

Here’s some gear laid out for a Capitol Reef trip the wife and I did over Thanksgiving… Not sure how many ounces the stove weighed.

 

[Jerry Adams]

at least your stove will work down to -40 F or so : )

[Tipi Walter]

I never actually sat down and laid everything out traditionally as in Ryan’s pic.  I have seen other people’s kits and have a few pics of my food loads—

This pic comes closest to a gear layout but it’s not really, it’s only a midday stop for a cooked lunch.

Here’s a unorganized gear layout of a Texas backpacker I met in the mountains of NC.

Here’s a food layout for a six day trip.

Here’s a substantially bigger food load for a 21 day trip (w/o resupply). All the plastic jars are either nut butters or honey or jam.

[Roger Caffin]

at least your stove will work down to -40 F or so : )

It might, but it probably won’t for very long – unless the LPG bottle is warmed up somehow.   :)

Cheers

[Paul Magnanti]

It might, but it probably won’t for very long – unless the LPG bottle is warmed up somehow.   :)

You are mixing up the stove from the fuel Roger. :)

That’s a white gas stove with a propane converter. When we went to Chaco Canyon in December one year, with temps around -10F, we took white gas and not the propane.

All the backhands from Mama Mags (really, that’s what my friends call her) did knock some sense into her sons once in a while..

 

 

 

[robert k]

Ok, I’ll play. Summer/shoulder season kit:

doesn’t include the pants,undies, socks, shirt or hat I’m wearing ( or food ).

[Tim Evans]

Here’s a photo of my stuff to add to the pile. I’m not your usual visitor to backpacking.com, as I’m not really a backpacker. I prefer to walk from town to town on roads (usually through Europe). My total gear weight for my next trip wil be bit less than 2.5 kg (shown). But I won’t be camping or carrying more food than just snacks for the day. On previous trips though I carried a Cuben tent, a ZPacks sleeping bag and an Exped air mattress with this other gear for a total of 3.8 kg. There is more detail of my gear on my web site http://www.roadwalking.com

[AK Granola]

Tipi, can you really eat that much nut butter in 3 weeks time? Sounds awful. A single jar lasts months for us.

i haven’t photographed my stuff, but I do the layout trick every time and find it invaluable, both so as not to forget anything critical, and to eliminate duplication, which sometimes happens. On a short backpack trip last week there were only three items in my pack I did not use – 1. My down puffy which I did not need due to unseasonably warm weather for this area; 2. My tent repair stuff, and 3. My fleece neck Gaiter.  If I were to repeat the same hike I would still take them all, just in case; snow is not unheard of at this time of year. Also came away with one entire uneaten meal for 2, just weren’t hungry that evening.

I still pack too heavily, but I have learned a lot from this forum!

 

[Alex Wallace]

@ryan, Do I spy a super robust carbon fiber pole? If so, where’d you get it and of course how much does it weigh? Also, is that a stock hipbelt on your HMG pack? It looks like the removable Ice Pack belt, but a tad wider, correct?

[Jef Davis]

Ryan,

is your cookpot just a JetBoil without a cozy, or a different heat exchanger pot/cup? Also, what it the thing with the cork handle next to the bear spray?

thanks for getting this going. I’ll post my kit as soon as I find a lens with a wide enough angle to capture all the extraneous stuff I still haul.

[Matthew / BPL]

Jef,

I believe the pot is an OliCamp and the thing with the cork handle is a tenkara fishing rod.

[Tipi Walter]

Karen says—Tipi, can you really eat that much nut butter in 3 weeks time? Sounds awful. A single jar lasts months for us.

Sounds awful?  Obviously you’ve never eaten cashew butter spread on a slice of Ezekiel cinnamon raisin bread with blueberry jam.  Or almond butter with a fresh red apple.  Or natural peanut butter mixed into a pot of hot morning oatmeal.

[Ryan Jordan]

@feetfirst – It is a super robust carbon pole, and it weighs about 4 oz. I rarely take trekking poles anymore, and the nice thick shelter pole, with decent stakes, gives me a little piece of mind in rowdy weather. I don’t recall the manufacturer. I do recall that I had it custom made from a cottage manufacturer, but I can’t find the info.

@davisjef and @matthewkphx – The pot is from a Jetboil Sol ti (cozy has been ditched), the stove is a BRS-3000T. See this article for more details. Yes, cork thing is a tenkara rod :) and the pack is a stock 2400 ice pack.

[Matthew / BPL]

I’ve never seen a naked Jetboil pot before!

[Anonymous]

“I’ve never seen a naked Jetboil pot before!”

It is now, truly, gear porn.  ; )

[Jonathan Ryan]

Coming off a 5 year backpacking hiatus after having kids.  Excited to get this stuff back out there again soon for a quick 24 hour trip.

 

[Cam Baker]

Love this idea. Fun to look at other folks setups in photo form (as apposed to gear lists)

This is kit I’ll be taking this weekend for 100 miles of the NTC in Allegheny National Forest, NW Pennsylvania.

[Arne L.]

Gear laid out for a previous trip… Didn’t take the vacuum cleaner after all. :)

And the same gear laid out during the trip at a public campsite:

[Bri W]

 

One of my most recent trip was very casual, short, and easy. I was hiking with first-time backpackers who carried 50 lbs. or more. So I decided to see how my Arc Blast felt with “heavy” gear. My base weight was still <10 lbs and I got to bring along a pillow! I also tried to make it as colorful as possible. It was fun!

 

[ALEX DONALDSON]

@tipi Obviously you’ve never eaten cashew butter spread on a slice of Ezekiel cinnamon raisin bread with blueberry jam.  Or almond butter with a fresh red apple.  Or natural peanut butter mixed into a pot of hot morning oatmeal.

 

Mmmmm, natural peanut butter and oatmeal. OR, NP and Honey on cinnamon raisin bread.

[AK Granola]

Well yes, all those sound good, just not 7 jars worth in 3 weeks! I guess I’m one of those who needs variety. I used to hike with a guy who could eat macaroni and ketchup day after day, and never tire of it. At least the nut butters give you some food value. When the jars are empty, do you flatten them to save space?

[Sam m]

[Ryan K]

@Bri W

Nice color coordination – even on your Sawyer mini.

What are those yellow wide-mount collapsible bottles – Hydrapack Stash?

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