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Hiking checklist for generic one day out and back
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Day-bag hiking checklist

Wearing

  • Short shirt
  • Light shorts
  • Backpacking socks
  • Boots or trail shoes
  • Glassess with ear grips

Clothes In pack

  • Long sleeve 2nd layer
  • Gore-Tex rain jacket (skip the pants unless it's sketchy)

Water

  • 500 mL per hour
  • 2 hour hike or less -- 1L water bottle
  • Longer than 2 hours -- Hydration pack, no bottle, up to 6 hours when full at 3L
  • Sawyer emergency filter kit (in food bin)

Medical and survival

  • Same medical bag I use for backpacking in food bin
  • Bug spary in bag (in dry bag near food bin)
  • Sunblock and lotion 1 oz tube and chapstick (in dry bag near food bin)
  • Sunglassess attachment and cleaner (in dry bag near food bin)
  • Optional: If bahtroom is needed: wipes, double gallon ziploc, dry bag and shovel from my backpack
  • Optional: bug net (in big backpacking bin) if conditions are unknown
  • Optional: Trekking poles (in big backpacking bin) if vibes call for them

Food (raid the pantry and backpacking food bin)

  • Under 3 hours can get away with eating before and brining snacks only
  • After 3 hours I need 1k calories per hour

Phone

  • Charge it up and preload the map
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