What's IN that bag-o-mine? Answered.

This is a bit different of a blog, but I get a lot of questions about what I carry and use and how much it weighs. So this is a bit overdue in coming. I took these photos over 2 weeks ago, and some things are no longer with me, and others are now with me.

My tent. Orange is the rain fly, the middle is the tent and the right is the plastic ground sheet, bottom middle is the stuff sack. Missing are my tent poles and stakes but they are pictured below.

On the right is my sleeping bag, sleep pad is in the middle and the green bag on the left is the stuff sack.

My clothes. They have changed, but I have my rain coat, a pair of shorts, 2 pair of walking socks, 1 pair of sleep socks, my pink smartwool sweater, another long sleeve, 2 bras, 2 head bands, one pair long johns top and bottom, a puffy coat and the red bag is the stuff sack. I no longer have the coat, and have a tank top instead, also not pictured are the pants and tan shirt I always wear. About to go is the extra long sleeve that is blue. And a pair of sandals along with the shoes I hike in.

On the left is part of my water filtration system. Then my Jet boil stove with fuel, my medic kit has lots: ib-profin, various Band-Aids and tape, roll on glide, chaffing stuff, knife with whistle and light, tiny mirror, a needle (have used waaaay too often for blisters), thread, tweezers and finger nail clippers and in the bottom right is the water proof shell for my backpack.

My map folder and 2 pens, my toiletries bag: toothbrush, toothpaste, floss, deodorant, comb, baby powder, I have now added a shampoo and tiny bar of soap. Head lamp, camera, wall phone charger, USB cord, portable charger and its waterproof carrying case.

Food bag, obviously changes often, this was 2.5 days worth of food. Always have some things in my food bag though, my plastic spoon/fork, peppermint candies, some sort of chocolate, and peppermint tea are staples. I try to have a warm dehydrated meal for supper and tuna, beef jerky or cheese sticks for lunch. This was special to have fruit in my bag for this photo..  I eat that within a day because its heavy and squishable. So I normally only get it right when going in for supplies. 

These are some of my favorite things. Red bag is my slack pack bag, my walking poles and my sun glasses, hat and bug face net. The trekking poles I didn't realize would be so important to me. They help get up hills, help my knees on downhills, save me from getting wet feet when I cross little sticks or rocks-thrown-into or across a small stream as the means to cross and they don't let the blood pool in your hands and poof up.

The white bag is a trash compactor bag I put everything inside my bag into to help waterproof. Always have a few zip locks for trash bags. My 1 liter nalgene water bottle, and my 2 liter platypus camelback system, various bug sprays, I have also added a bottle of skin so soft which works for bug spray in light bug areas. Tiny bottle of sun screen, (which I should use as my face is two-tone. Have probably aged my skin 10 years... Uhg) My Flag!

Everything packed and ready to be put into the bag. From top left, green bag for food, tent with poles and stakes, bright green bag is sleeping bag, red bag is clothes bag, yellow is med pack, a zip lock full of dried baby wipes for toiket paper and baths. My Jet Boil is put together. The bigger clothes I shove onto the 'holes' in-between stuff in my bag. I pack almost the same every day so I know where things are by reaching in. Except when my tent is wet, then it goes on top on the compactor bag and everything else goes inside compactor bag. 

I weighed the bag back with my friends Aaron and Virna and it came in at 31 pounds. My food weighed 4 pounds that day and I had 3 liters of water. Each liter weighs 2 pounds. However, that was that day... I would say my pack weights on average from 30 to 34 pounds depending on my food and how much non-essentail stuff I put in there. Right now for example I have the extra soaps, some Epson salt and I'm trying out a thermacell bug thing.

And there you have it. You know what is in my pack. 

All packed and posed pretty