Greetings to everyone,

I hope that everyone will be able to help me; i ve been lurking for the past couple of days around a few forums and decided to join this one.

I have little experiencing camping, mostly because I ve been doing it on and off instead of regularly which extends to many other disciplines such as hiking, car camping, mountain climbing...I still have some of my old equipment from my scout days as well as my travel gear.

Bref, what I want is help with camping. Right now I live in northern Virginia so I see myself doing 1-3 nights camping in the Appalachians this fall and winter at this time.



My apologies for the long post, but it seems like people want details.

I recently bought quite a few items with the recent REI and LL Bean sale as well as before the summer for my travels that I have not used
yet so I can return them - these items I will put returnable.

I have lots of equipment from other hobbies and activities,
Photography is a big hobby of mine so I need to take that into account.


the 2 items I need help with are the tent and sleeping bags

TENT / SHELTER
Need a two person tent
returnable REI quarter dome T2 tent
http://www.rei.com/product/761893#prodSpecs
and footprint
budget under $350 if possible.



SLEEPING
Have sleeping bag for summer
cocoon silk mummy liner
returnable Adventure® Medical Heatsheets Emergency Bivvy 3.5oz
Neoair reg. mattress 400g
returnable Neoair stuff sack 14g
returnable Big Agnes insulated air core pad 680g
very old blue foam pad

exped pillow 89g
thermarest pillow 255g

budget under 350

BACKPACK
Gregory baltoro 75 (though I m not getting it back before xmas)
returnable Osprey Aura 65 (spent two hours in the store walking around with weights, it fits me - better than the male counterpart...)


TOOLS
ranger swiss army knife
returnable brunton 9020G compass
fox40 whistle somewhere
GSI Cathole Sanitation Trowel
fire starter 27g


MISCELLANEOUS

fenix ld20 flashlight with batteries 115g
Alite monarch chair
returnable thermarest camp seat 340g
Oakley black polarized sunglasses
returnable Sea to summit extra large dry sack 7.4oz


WATER
returnable steripen opti
Returnable platypus 1L
nalgene widemouth 32oz
nalgene widemouth 16oz
Sigg
have a camelback type pouch somewhere

COOKING

Sea to summing long spoon
fork


HYGIENE
microfiber towels of all sizes
campsuds


PHOTOGRAPHY
I can put the info if needed


CLOTHES
I believe I have everything needed for that right now.