WHAT’S IN MY PACK! BACKCOUNTRY EDITION

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I use during elk season. I am so friendly and organized. I'm going to start this off right, well, let's clean this up now that we've got it taken care of. I'm going to go over and basically show you the base that I'm going with. it doesn't change, it doesn't matter if I go for three days, there's five or seven, so what I run, I run an EXO 3500 package fully capable of running up to six seven days if necessary with camera gear and how I like it. set up I really don't like spending more than five or six days with it.

I run a 3500 with the dry bag with lid, insert dry bag for my 3500 camping gear, we'll go through the clothing I bring with me and the only variable is what it's going to be. I wear at first light either zucchini or obsidian pants later in September. I'm going to run with my friend's puffy pants since the first light of September, I don't wear them. I run a REI flash pad. I found it has good insulation durable lightweight the bag I use lighted gear duvet has a 20 degree 950 fill I have been used an extra long wide bag I always put my camp in a dry bag just for those September storms and I don't use stuff sacks it use, only that everything goes in this bag and that way it helps to adapt to the packing house so that you don't have these strange shapes that take up unnecessary volume.

The good thing about down is that it compresses very well. I run a Jimmy Granite Mountain tarp bivy bag and this is a fly version, it doesn't require much weight, a little help with organization, but the Granite Mountain tarp is prepared for one trekking pole and I actually use two trekking sticks. one for Center Ridge and then I use one under my feet. I'm not packing extra weight, you know, poles and all that, so it's a pretty light system. I think everything is said and done. Oh, and this is one of those comfort items. it's a sea2summit folding pillow it weighs a few ounces it's definitely worth the weight in gold to get a good night's sleep my camping system right here will weigh 4.6 pounds all set up and ready so it's tight that's my sleeping bag with pad of shelter, everything ready to go and so how do I pack up as I push this through the main body 3500, okay, next one, so I have my main camp like I said in the dry bag scenario.

The good thing is that you can always pull this out, we have had many times. where we know we are going to camp in an area but we have a couple of hours of daylight left. I'll take this out. I'll place it on the ground. It will stay dry safe from the elements. All that. I run a jet. I boil the sole, a little older version, works great, works with a summit spoon seat, the long handle works well in the old mountain house, the little Felis owner, can enjoy about six full days of fiery breakfast and dinner, and you know, in a cafe or on top.

Ramen at noon so you can have plenty of time, some weird stuff that's always inside my backpack, on the top cover, number one tags, license. I carry a spare lipstick and then on the lipstick I wrap it in leuco. tape Luco tape you can't have enough you never know blisters are going to burst something like that I definitely have some leuco tape I carry a little tech flashlight from Princeton that has the dome feature so I'll hang it in my tent at night to no I don't have to burn out my headlamp and then for my headlamp last year I switched to a Petzl.

This is the core of the USB rechargeable penthouse. You can take out the battery and it has a little micro USB to recharge the battery or three Triple A batteries, so all this goes, I have the hidden pocket right here, where I roll my tag, it's in a safe place, I know where it's going to be , the flashlight, the altitude, made on the bench, right there, everything, here, in my hidden pocket, it's enough of a need that I've come to love baby bottom cream. learn this a few years ago sometimes it irritates you a little it works caracals highly recommended also with that knife I carry the sharpening work this is their new version it's called a pocket knife sharpener and literally with that altitude when you take care of a a you can just hit that ceramic six times, so when I kill something or someone else I do it because that's how it usually rolls, I can get in there, I have tags, knife sharpener, all of that is there in the same pocket.

I always carry a contractor trash bag, big black trash bags you can use. It is an emergency shelter poncho. You need to soak the meat in water and cool it. You can put it around. Always carry a trash bag with you, so these are items I won't access as often, but I know exactly. where they are super easy with that hidden pocket in the lids where I am going to put my headlamp. Now I have a bedroom within my reach. Garmin makes them. They make a new and cool one. Anyone definitely worth it, so this Bluetooth on me. phone and so my wife knows everything is okay, we can also carry one on the computer to know where the others are and all that other security reason, we also carry radios a lot of times depending on where we go.

It will only be on a backpacking trip, so these three items are a beacon, they all go here in my lid in another small hidden pocket for added security. Next on the list is our water system. We get a lot of questions from people about what we use. and how we do it is a really cool system from Sawyer, it's just called a compression filter, they're like 35 40 dollars. I have a 3 liter platypus bladder and in fact I still have an old Camelback hose, this system has a Quick disconnect, how it collects the water, this is a dirty bag, so it fills unfiltered water, you can literally screw this Sawyer filter that goes in turn, turns on, has a clip that's a gravity feed system, super easy for eating and lunching or whatever.

I can just hang this on a tree, I definitely recommend this system Ben bulletproof, no moving parts, only flaw is that it gets clogged with water that is too dirty, which you just rinse at that point, my bladder sinks into the compartment of the bladder here, the backpack and then me. Just take these bags, roll them up so you have the capacity to carry 7 liters of water, she has 7 liters. I can easily have 2 full days throw them in a bag and then I put this in the outside elastic pocket of the 35 because it's easy access to know where it is take off my backpack throw it in play bags for aa the skein bags are super important the goal that let's go out there is to bring meat home to our families so we are working on something that will help you in this space this is how I carry I carry 3/4 bags I vacuum pack them I keep some waterproof I keep some more compact so I have 3/4 bags I'll do 2 front paddles back hams back ham and then I have a burger bag, a meat bag for camping, those always go on the bottom, on the back of my dry bag, on the bottom of my backpack.

I know where they are very easy to get to, but they are out of the way. don't take up too much space serous and puffy waterproof jacket long johns I'll go in that dry bag again. The merino hat goes in the hidden pocket on the side, so what I wear as far as clothing is I use the Obsidian merino pants or the corrugated guide. pants a wick hoodie the 1:50 hoodie or the fuse a 210 top so that's a quarter zip that I wear to merino over my infamous rope belt that everyone hates but I've been carrying around I wore this I didn't I like a big belt buckle, so I used a trekking pole with a rope belt and I have a pair of lucky trekking poles.

The aluminum will also wrap duct tape around the top handle, so that's just another space to keep it, the biggest variable I have when it comes to hunting. This goes with me, it doesn't matter if it's three days, 7 days or 10 days, whatever, set the variable and the weight will be the food. I always try to pack my food and daily servings I basically try to hit those 3000 calories. Usually a little over a pound and 20 ounces somewhere, it shoots for the 150 calories per ounce mark in the food you carry. I love variety the first time I went on a backpacking trip out of state and I ate the exact same food on the exact same day and I hated it.

I usually carry a mesh bag or a small dry bag just to keep the food easily accessible and organized, so I have my 4 day food bags for 3 nights during the days, so I usually run the pro packs and then What I do is split a mashed potato every night. I take about half a mashed potato and just mix it well in the mountain house that all goes there for breakfast. I'll split them in two. in the mornings, so I'll have scrambled eggs or biscuits and gravy that sound ooh, rainbow flavored skittles. This is something I found a couple of years ago and I'm very bummed because they don't make Tapatío powder anymore, they make very little now. single packs Trent brings the family size bottle and then every day, usually at lunch time depending on what's going on, some chicken noodle soup, top ramen, that's my meal, so we have four days that will take seven point eight pounds and like I said, I generally like a mesh. bag over a dry bag for this stuff because it doesn't matter, but like I said before, you know it's bags, things get a little awkward, all my other stuff, you can just stick it all down there and it just folds. to the mold and what it needs to be, you are prepared, ready to go.

Quick side note. I've been playing around with the food, like I said, variety that our friend Cody Rich started, it's called a

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fuel box and it's basically a monthly box that pops up. it's a wide variety of food, you get tons of completely different things, the good way to try them, like where I live in Roseburg, there's not much variety to try, it shows up at your doorstep, you move on, last but not less importantly, another of those luxuries. items I've had this for I don't know how many years therm-a-rest Zee litepad I've cut it up into three different pieces over the years now I just take it and throw it here on top like I fold the lid it's nice have a seat at night, if it's wet it's always there so I throw the lid down ready to go the calls go in the bag on the side of the stove I always throw it on the side. bag where it's very easy to access Footwear I run on the crunchy summit, those are on my feet and then I have a little life in there, so I always take them to the trailhead, throw them on, they work wonders for crossing streams, tender feet, like that I always throw them in the backpack and it feels heavy, so I have four days' worth of gear, there's only like a liter of water, we weigh twenty-eight point six pounds, here we go, all good, so that's it, I weigh just under thirty pounds.

I have equipment and food for four days. The only thing really missing is the camera equipment, so I feel pretty good. I feel like I can hunt with the camp on my back and be totally comfortable with it all day. Yes, I am ready. to go to bass bugle tasting bowls, so thanks for watching the channel here, there will be a lot of fun things to come. We have the land of 32.0 that we will start in August and launch in November, day by day, five states, forty-five days of hunting. It's going to be awesome, so thanks again if you hit that subscribe button.

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