Gear List

What are the 10 Essentials of Hiking, you ask. The 10 essentials of hiking are the items you should bring with you on every single hike. They are a collection of items that can help you in the event of an emergency, sudden weather changes, or unexpected delays such as ...
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What should you bring on every hike? I don't know how many times I have run across individuals who were not prepared for a hike. I don't know if they just didn't know what to bring on a hike or what the 10 essentials are, or if they were just ...
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My DITY bag for the Appalachian Trail consists of my first aid kit, hygiene kit, and repair kit. For the sake of simplicity, I will break each kit down in its own category below. First Aid Kit This includes not only first aid items but also medication. Prescription MedsBand-aids: Multiple ...
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My cook system for the Appalachian Trail is pretty simple. A stove, pot, spoon, food bag, and koozie make up the main items. Stove: For my stove, I have kept going back and forth between the BRS-3000t and the MSR Pocket Rocket 2. To start out with I am going ...
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My water filtration system for the Appalachian Trail is pretty simple. I will be hiking in an area that is pretty abundant with water, especially the time of year I will be going. I only plan to carry 1.75L of water at any given time (unless of course there is ...
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Electronics on the Appalachian Trail? It seems like one of the biggest controversies out there. Some believe you shouldn't have any and apparently you are a horrible person if you do. Then there is the rest of us with kids and families left back at home or those of us ...
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One of the hardest things for me to figure out was my sleep system for the Appalachian Trail. I am starting in February which means I can expect to run into single-digit temperatures. Being that I live in Central Texas, I am used to triple-digit temperatures, not single digit. Living ...
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So I made the announcement a couple of months ago that both my 16-year-old son and I will be thru-hiking the Lone Star Hiking Trail this coming March as a way for me to do a gear shakedown of the items I will be taking with me on my thru-hike ...
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Well, I set a date for my Appalachian Trail thru-hike...Mid-Late February of 2020. Originally I was going to do it solo, but after finding out my husband will definitely be retiring now on December 31, 2019, from the Army, I now have a hiking partner! UPDATE August 2019: He was ...
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