Posted: 12/23/2024 12:23:58 AM EDT
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I've done section J in WA and 1st 20 miles in SoCal, looking to do more. Thinking of mile 20 lake Morena to Big bear mile 266. My gear consists of: in pack. Zpack Arc haul 25oz Duestches + tarp 16oz Tyvex Ground tarp 4oz UQB quilt 20F 22oz OR rain jacket 6.2oz Field jacket liner 5.5oz Klymit sleep pad 18.1oz BRS tit stove 1oz Toaks 750ml cup 3.6oz Fuel cartidge 4.8oz Sawyer water filter 3oz 6 moons sun umbrella 5.5oz 10k mah battery 8oz Assorted cables 1.5oz Extra darn tough socks/5 toe liners 4oz Head lamp 2.5oz Fleece beenie 1oz Garmin ELC 8OZ 2L platypus water bladder 3.4oz Nail clipper 1oz 1st aid kit with tourniquet 4oz 2x 1.5 smart bottles..1x 1L bottle 2.5oz Army silk base layer 13oz Plastic mre spoon Base with no food or water 10.27 lbs. Worn: OR vented ball cap Long sleeve vented t shirt Columbia vented hiking pants Sun gloves Darn tough mid socks with injinti 5 toe socks liners Merrell speed 5 shoes Black diamond treeking poles. |
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Originally Posted By Urimaginaryfrnd: I’ll just leave this here……😎 That's a legit lightweight gear list above pal. That jacket is like 1/5 the alotted weight those guys rock for through hikes haha. @161Infantry Good luck! Post pics of the trip if so inclined. Really want to do the PCT. |
| Section J of the PCT is probably one of the best hikes in the world. I did it a couple months ago and want to go back. Look at the Goat Rocks wilderness section of the PCT. It is amazing as well. I used a pack by Deuter. Light weight and very comfortable. |
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Originally Posted By 161Infantry: ... Sun gloves ...  I now almost exclusively hike in a sun hoody. Summer, winter, doesn't matter. Outdoor Research Echo for summer, Black Diamond Alpenglow for winter. For summer use, it keeps the sun off my ears and neck and my lower face, and compliments the brim of my baseball hat. In the winter, it's a hat I can't drop. Despite being thin, it is very effective at keeping the wind at bay, all the way down the back half of my neck, which isn't something that hat is going to do. An out on glacier - a baseball hat, and the hood drawn way over to create a narrow, forward-looking tunnel to keep minimize sun exposure, all angle sun exposure. And, the sun hoody is thin enough and stretchy enough that it will easily fit over a helmet, or under a helmet - something that a hat can barely do half of; if you haven't yet dropped it somewhere, in which case it's doing zero-point-zero of that. |