Reddit reviews TOAKS Titanium Long Handle Spoon
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Material: Titanium (no coating)Weight: 0.57 oz (16 g)Length: 8 1/2”/ 217mmOrigin: Designed by TOAKS in California and made in ChinaNotes: Long handle and flat head make it easy to reach corners in a bottle.
This list includes a lot of awesome gear. If you can afford all of it, then more power to you, but there are places you can probably save money.
I notice you have four shirts. You probably only need two, even if one is for sleeping in. Same goes for pants/shorts.
The Evernew stacking set is a little weird. The pot is big enough for a solo hiker. The mug should be functional as a small pot, but that's not really necessary. I think you might be better off just buying a pot from them (and maybe going wide instead of tall), and then using your own mug if you wanted it.
The spork will break after heavy use; I also think it's available for like $3 at REI. Something like this is pretty popular among UL hikers, although I believe .4 oz is the standard.
You probably don't need both campsuds and Dr. Bronners.
You can replace the flask with a lighter container, although I'm not certain that something with similar character (plastic whiskey bottle) would be lighter.
You can probably save weight by replacing the reservoir with plastic bottles. If you like the drinking tube then you might consider getting one with smaller capacity.
The Sawyer Mini can be a real hassle to work with. Most people I know carry the Sawyer Squeeze, in spite of the slight extra weight.
The first aid kit might be excessive. I think this video gives interesting insight into trail med kits. I'm not saying it's right for everyone, but I've pretty much come to the same conclusions as him about what I need in my own first aid kit.
I personally wouldn't bother with the emergency bivy or the whistle, but that's just me. If you do want something along those lines, an emergency heat blanket would be lighter, and there are lighter whistles.
You don't need the flint and steel. You also don't need a leatherman, but it looks pretty light. It's tough to find a knife under 1 oz, so I figure you might as well stick with it.
I notice the Zpacks toothbrush/paste is still heavier than the lowtech method of cutting a toothbrush in half and drying out drops of toothpaste.
You don't need the paper towels, just use TP. You also don't need very much TP.
Some things you might consider adding are a charger for the nexus 6, local map (maybe compass), Leukotape, bear bag & line.
I'm also going to disagree with some of the advice in this thread. I don't think freeze dried food is a good option. It's a real money sink, and there are plenty of lightweight foods you can get right at the grocery store. Crocs are popular camp shoes because they are amazing camp shoes - they weigh a little more because they are very cushiony.
That spork is a cruel joke. Get a titanium long handle so you can get those delicious last bits of your dinner-in-a-bag without getting your hands all messy.
Here is a simple setup for $60 on Amazon:
A 4oz fuel canister and the stove will nest into the pot, the spoon is too long.
I really like the sawyer water filter. Whatever you get, the best thing you can do is fill up a 'dirty water' container in the middle of the lake, and use that to refill your gravity filter. Over 5 gallons starts to get tricky to bring back into the canoe. We tend to pour the filtered water directly into a container rather than use a 'clean' bag. Pro tip - if you are boiling water for cooking, you don't need to filter it. Just use that big jug of fairly clean water you pulled from a good distance from shore.
As a pot, a 9 cup coffee peculator works really well for just boiling water. Bonus as it also acts as a peculator - heat water in another pot, then poor over the filter/grinds rather than wait for a full boil to peculate. I'll usually pack a 600ml pot that heats smaller amounts of water and doubles as my coffee cup. Nice to have a single walled cup you can set on the fire grate.
For the morning oatmeal, I just pack in a paper bowl. Easy cleanup in the fire.
Depending on how many days, a canister style stove is hard to beat for groups of four. Longer trips, or trips with more people, a white gas stove starts to work out better. There is an entire cult around building beer can stoves, but they tend to be a bit slow for 4 hungry people.
We tend to do a fair bit of freeze dried foods when we go. A long handled spoon - either from a DQ malt or something fancy titanium works nicely for eating directly out of the bag. No real cleanup.
I'm packing in an $0.88 pizza pan as an aluminum surface to cook fish if it is over the fire, an aluminum foil pouch for in the fire. Semi-disposable Tupperware works nicely to keep crackers from getting crushed in a pack.
Going in this weekend as well. Will be in the bars in Ely the Friday night before. Possibly see you in that corner of the world!