Originally Posted By BZH
What equipment are you trying to buy for $150 - 200? Backpack, sleeping bag, tent, clothes, shoes, cook kit?

If you are going to cap his carried weight to 20 lbs, I'm not sure how important a framed backpack is.


Unfortunately I'll have to cap his carry weight at around 10lbs unless I can beef him up a bit more before his first trip. I'm still not sure when his first backpacking trip is but he has 2 regular camping trips which are park n camp types. I'm gonna diy gear as much as possible and go from there. They wont allow scouts to make a cat food can stove so I gotta find out what his alternatives are with that. I think right now I'll have to focus on the big 3.