Backcountry Explorer’s Bag
If you are a remote area explorer, you will need a special mix of items in your bag. This is the case with CoolTools reader Heron, who spends about five days a week in the outback of Washington doing research.
This is the Hyperlite Mountain Gear 3400 Porter Pack . Here’s what’s inside (click the Cool Tools link below for a description of how each item is used):
- Homemade duvet comparable to the Nunatak Arc Specialist .
- A homemade shelter comparable to Mountain Laurel Designs Grace Tarp and Serenity Shelter .
- Thermarest Neo-Air Small
- MSR Marmot Stakes
- Evernew 1.3 L Titanium Can
- Vargo Titanium Spork
- Stove Super Cat
- Denatured stove alcohol in an old soda bottle.
- Food bag
- LiteTrail NyloBarrier Anti-odor bag
- Aquamira bottle with Sawyer Mini filter
- T-shirt Arc’teryx Phase SL
- Men’s Pants Gramicci Rocket Dry G
- Darn Tough Socks 1/4 Ultralight
- Ibex Indie Wool Hooded Shirt
- Patagonia Capilene 3 long panties
- Feeding Friends Daybreak Jacket
- Arc’teryx Squamish Hoody
- Headnet
- Leica 10 × 25 BCA binoculars
- Suunto Core Watch
- Belomo Triple Magnifier
- Rite-in-Rain Notebook
- Headlight Zebralight H52W
- Platypus soft bottle 2 l
- Aquamira in drops of chlorine dioxide
- Whistling
- Suunto M-3 compass
- Bic Lighter
- Leatherman Squirt PS4
- Kiss My Face sunscreen
- Canon S100 camera
- Skilcraft pencil
- Skilcraft ballpoint pen
- Maps printed from CalTopo.com
If you have a great duffel bag with a useful organization diagram and great features, let us know! You can share your bag by posting it to your personal Kinja blog using the tagged bag or by adding it to our Lifehacker Go Bag Show and Tell Flickr pool . Photos must be at least 640×360. Please include information about your bag, what you put in it, and any relevant details about how you made it awesome. If yours catches the eye, we can just show it!
What is in my bag? – heron | Cool tools