BWCA
- June 2010
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5: Lessons Learned - Equipment and Food Summary
Surveying the Wreckage
I find that I packed well.
Leftovers:
- Two freeze-dried dinners (8 oz.)
- Three breakfasts (pre-packed granola, 1.2 lb.)
- One small bag of instant milk (6 oz.)
- 4 ounces of beef jerky (good for the ride home)
- 6 ounces of orange marmalade
- 2 precooked bannock, still in their vacuum-sealed bag (1.2 lb.) (only one piece out of the other 6 developed any mold to speak of)
Total weight of leftovers is about 4 pounds.
Things I brought but didn’t use:
- First aid kit
- Filtration water bottle
- One t-shirt
- MP3 player (forgot the earphones)
- Spare glasses
- Bug dope
- Cold and blister treatments from my toiletry kit
- Bandanna treated with permethrin
- 2 pair gloves
- Extra batteries
- Fire starters
- Folding trowel
- 8 Esbit fuel tablets (out of 13)
- Baseball cap with integral heat net
- Bug shirt
I would bring all but the last two items on any trip regardless of whether I used them or not.
Things I brought and used but didn’t need:
- 2nd long-sleeve t-shirt
- 2nd pair of liner socks
- NRS Boundary Socks (they kept my feet clean but not dry due to sweating)
Things I brought for the first time:
- Bear Vault 500 (very convenient, 2.5 lb.)
- Alite Monarch chair (1.5 lb. but less versatile than 3 lb. tripod chair)
Things I wished I’d brought:
- Down jacket (would have been nice on chilly days but not really needed)
- Tripod chair (more upright posture than the Alite Monarch)
- Blueberry jam (in place of half the marmalade)
- Earphones for MP3 player and as antenna for weather radio
- Tarp pole(s)
- Binoculars
Now to start planning for the September trip to Snowbank Lake.
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