What's in my winter pack?

Here is my typical winter hiking gear list for when I am snowshoeing.  If it is raining hard I leave the heavy camera at home and bring a point and shoot and I take extra polypro base layers instead of a down jacket.   Click link below to read more:


I don't normally carry any water in the Olympics.  If I know I am doing a dry hike, then I will bring my Platypus filled with water.  I don't use a water filter, so I don't drink water downstream from tree farms or outhouses.

I bring two pairs of gloves because handwarmers do not work when they are wet.  I bring two light sources because the winter days are short up here so, I do a lot of hiking in the dark and the extra light source also holds an extra battery that I can use in my GPS.  I should probably add my silnylon tarp for the winter, then I could sip my tea with getting rained on.

I won't ever carry all of this stuff at once, for example I won't carry both cameras at once I hope that at least half of the time the snowshoes are on my feet.

all weights are in ounces and on my scale:

Snow shoes,	58
Nikon D90 with 18-100mm,	48
2009 pack	29
M hardware fleece jacket	16
Leki poles	16
Lunch,	16?
Weapon	12
Rain Coat Marmot XL,	12
Rain pants REI Large petite,	11
Dogfood wet and dry	9.5
Fleece pullover	9
OR crock gaiters small ,	8.8
First aid kit,	8.5
Pentax waterproof WG-1 camera,	8
Stove Fuel if bottle is full,	2
GPSmap 60 CSX,	7.6
Head Lamp Black Diamond,	5
SPOT messenger ,	4.3
Fleece mitten gloves ,	4
Kitchen (Can Pot)	3.5
Waterproof extra gloves	3.5
Seattle Sombrero Large,	3.5
New waterproof stuff sack,	3
2 leaky old stuff sacks	3
Orange hat,	2.6
Handwarmers (3),	2.5
Homemade fleece balaclava hat,	2.2
Dry socks in pack,	2
GPS Extra battery,	2
Bike / scrambling gloves ,	1.4
TP in ziplock ,	1
	163.9  Ounces
	10.2 pounds

 

First aid kit includes: (plasters, cut mole foams, needle, thread, safety pin, extra lighter

medical tape, rubber bands, matches, asprin, ibuprofean, pepto, prescription, alcohol wipes, diva cup, large pad, "AA" LED penlight, duct tape.

 

 

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