GEAR LIST

This is the basics so interpret as you wish - talk to anyone that's hiked before and they'll tell you less is more.
Leave your Egyptian cotton sheets, boom box and banana lounge at home

Hiking pack

• A pack to put it all in (duh)

• Rain cover for pack &/or waterproof liner (dead dog bags work well, I've had mine for 6 years now and still no holes). 

Sleeping gear

• Tent 

• Sleeping bag

• Sleeping mat

• Pillow (I use a stuff sack full of clothes with my polar fleece over the top, double function, less weight, perfect!)

Cooking/eating gear

• Camping stove and fuel

• Associated pots/pans & cutlery

• 5 or 6 Litre water bladder

• Water bottles

• Food

• Snacks

Survival & sanitation

•  Water proof bags

• Purification tablets

• Matches

• Knife

• Headlamp and spare batteries

• Sunscreen

• Bug repellent

• Anti-bacterial evaporative liquid

• Toothbrush & paste

• Small spade - "Doug"

• Loo paper (we use "who gives a crap" because it is awesome. Open another tab & Google it right this second, I dare ya!)

• Tarp

• Small square of foam for sitting

Clothing & footwear

• Hiking boots

• Good thick socks

• Appropriate clothing

• Sunglasses

• Hat

• Thermal top & bottom

• Fleecy or warm top

• Rain jacket/outer shell

• Rain pants (overprints)

• Gaiters

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ANY questions about gear shoot them through to us, it is super important to have the right stuff