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#181835 - 01/12/14 11:10 PM 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond
HIKEtube Offline
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What do you guys think? Did we make a pretty good list? What else do you recommend? Let us know!!



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#181840 - 01/13/14 10:44 AM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: HIKEtube]
rockchucker22 Offline
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Registered: 09/24/12
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Nice list but quite a few redundant items. Could you post the weight of your gear individually and total carry weight?
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#181841 - 01/13/14 11:01 AM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: HIKEtube]
hikerduane Offline
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Registered: 02/23/03
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I want to do a trip where you are limited to "X" amount of items. Some here in Kalifornia did that last summer, limited to 7 items I think.
Duane

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#181843 - 01/13/14 12:41 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: hikerduane]
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Now that would be interesting, does the 7 items include worn clothes?
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#181844 - 01/13/14 01:24 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: rockchucker22]
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Tyson, I can't recall the full description as they went when I had just been there recently (Kennedy Meadows/Sonora Pass), so I passed on that trip. I'll have to look back at that and ask the organizer.
Duane

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#181845 - 01/13/14 02:26 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: hikerduane]
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Wow, 7 items. If I could backpack nekked, I think I could pull that off. Not too sure anybody else would want to go with me though eek

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#181846 - 01/13/14 02:27 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: HIKEtube]
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Sorry HIKEtube, but this list is kinda funny. Waaaaaaay too generic a list and very hard to take it serious. For instance, although the bear spray may be an important item to bring in certain areas, Hawaii is not one of them. Leave the bear spray at home and instead bring mask, fins, and snorkel maybe. Or replace it with money for shave ice wink . So one suggestion is to be more area or region specific. Bungee cordes? I suppose......but a camping essential? I suppose you could use it to strap your boom box to the backpack. As previously mentioned, it sounds like you carrying a lot of unnecessary weight but you are not bringing a camera to record the adventure?

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#181850 - 01/13/14 03:13 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: HIKEtube]
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I looked through your list. I'm sorry, but I don't find it a good one. I did not find one single item that I would ever take on a backpacking trip here in the Pacific Northwest, home of the extra-tropical rain forest, where in the shoulder seasons it can be just as wet as the tropics, although far colder.

I did find a lot of very heavy gear choices where a lighter (and no more expensive) choice would function as well. There are also a lot of unnecessary duplications. (Example: full tent plus hammock plus tarp plus ground-sleeping bug net--why three different shelters?) The total gear on your list would add up to an extremely heavy pack that I, for one, couldn't manage to drag, much less carry, across the parking lot from my vehicle to the start of the trail!

Take a look at the 27 lb, 7-day gear list on the home page of this site, left-hand column. It was designed for the northern Cascades in 3 seasons. I used this list as the model for my own and my gear has been in use for a number of years, including in several days of continuous heavy rain and in temps down to 15*F. A number of my brand/model choices for individual items are not the same (some are lighter and some are heavier), but generically the individual items are the same and my total pack weight is a couple of pounds less. This gear has kept me warm and dry and comfortable for a number of years now through everything the PNW climate can throw at me.

You really need to weigh the individual items in your list and add up the total. You may find it an eye-opener! While weight certainly isn't everything, a lighter pack is far more comfortable and far more fun!

Now that I look at your post again, especially since you made it in the "Off Topic" section, was it perhaps intended as a joke?


Edited by OregonMouse (01/13/14 03:33 PM)
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#181852 - 01/13/14 03:51 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: skcreidc]
hikerduane Offline
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Registered: 02/23/03
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Loc: Meadow Valley, CA
Tyson, 11 items, 6 lb pack weight for personal items. I sent an email to the trip organizer for that trip.
Duane

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#181853 - 01/13/14 04:10 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: hikerduane]
rockchucker22 Offline
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Registered: 09/24/12
Posts: 751
Loc: Eastern Sierras
11 items, I'm real curious about this, sounds like a fun challenge. Maybe we should start a new thread so we don't hijack this thread any further.
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#181857 - 01/13/14 07:08 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: rockchucker22]
hikerduane Offline
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Registered: 02/23/03
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Loc: Meadow Valley, CA
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#181864 - 01/13/14 09:13 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: OregonMouse]
hikerduane Offline
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Registered: 02/23/03
Posts: 2124
Loc: Meadow Valley, CA
Multiple knives, unneeded multi pot cook kit, headlamps, steel trowel, too heavy a tent?, etc. Maybe this stuff is for canoeists?
Duane

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#201675 - 09/09/18 11:14 PM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: HIKEtube]
wildnfree Offline
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Registered: 09/29/17
Posts: 25
Loc: Phoenix, Az
It seems like your URL no longer works...

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#201677 - 09/10/18 08:33 AM Re: 41 Camping Essentials for Hawaii and Beyond [Re: wildnfree]
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Loc: Southwest Ohio
Thanks for the heads-up. I checked it, and it linked to a cable TV website now - so I removed the link.

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