seriously you guys one hears with a play should go side from it okay let's go.
some fun we're gonna do a video
all right let's go outside now whoa crazy I know all right
intro
I really hope that look cool because I almost took out my whole shelf anyways I
am Matty I'm not doing a slide intro again so that's a one-time shot we're
just going with it um today Wanda and I hey baby
we are gonna talk about my hiking pack and what I carry inside of it if you've
never seen my channel before welcome to Matty oh doors I'm Matty
crazy I know like now when I wasn't sure people were gonna catch and if you did
awesome if not Matadors I'm Matty welcome let's
keep going um I'm Canadian I like coffee primarily tim horton's i drink a lot of
it i love my dog like two of them now so much better
alright better I love my dogs and yeah I love hiking and I love backpacking about
a year ago I really started looking into getting more into the lightweight I
guess sort of going closer to ultralight backpacking I'm definitely not quite
there yet getting there my base weight is just
under 14 pounds right now which I'm I'm pretty happy with I got my pack loaded
gonna rip it apart go through it kind of see what's inside hey guys how I
organized it go from there you got any questions feel free to ask down below
I've also gone online to the site lighter packed calm I have put every
single thing that's in this pack has been weighed it has been listed on this
I'll put the link in the description you can check that out fall along if you
want anyways let's rip this thing apart okay
gonna reset the camera battery just died
shot good to go alright yeah basically you're gonna start with the lid
the pac-man against whoa okay first thing go throw on the list this is my
Osprey exos 58 so starting at the very top in the lid the first thing that
you're gonna find in the lid is this some contraption here this is my hang
time hook under shelter sleep system the hanging time hook this is 1.75 ounces
what this does this clips onto my ridgeline of my hammock and this little
clip here opens up I can put my cell phone inside of it and basically as I'm
laying in the hammock my cell phone dangles up above me I'm a movies guy so
I experience on my phone that's my thing I throw a movie on fall asleep it's
awesome works for me so yeah my hang time hook also in the lid of my pack I
keep my gloves these are just a simple lightweight pair of synthetic Under
Armour gloves those are a 1.25 ounces also in the top of my pack is my merino
buff this is the extra long one I like this because you can fold it up a whole
bunch of different ways I'll make a to cut of it when I'm sleeping I'll pull it
down over my face and I'll kind of make like a neck gaiter to kind of keep the
moisture contained awesome love these things also the brain of my pack I could
keep my toiletry kit this has got my sanitary why is my toothbrush my
deodorant I keep hand sanitizer in there I keep lip trap in there and keep my
little finger bug spray in here 6 ounces for my toiletry kit also in the lid of
my pack you will find my headlamp this is a Black Diamond revolt this is three
and a half ounces next thing in the lid of my pack I carry my knife now I'll
fully admit I do not carry my knife in the lid of my pack on my person at all
times while I'm hiking I have my ribs front pack which I've got a video on
I'll put that up somewhere over here pretty sure that's the side that pops up
on if not then they'll show up on this side
anyways I carry this in one of the front pockets on my ribs pack but I do carry I
do consider this part of my hiking kit so I threw it in my pack just to get the
weight but it is carried on me it's either in my ribs huh or am I
pocket all the time so just for simplicity in this video I threw it in
the brain of my pack now one thing that I don't carry with this I'll kind of
fully admit is I don't carry a pack cover with my pack with this pack in
particular the brainy does completely detach what I'll do is if it's going to
rain I'll detach the brain of my pack and I put it inside the compactor bag
which you'll see inside my pack later on that's how I can't ball myself dry in
the underside of my pack I keep my hammock suspension so that will be one
bag here this has my Whoopi's things and my toggles straps my Whoopie slings and
my toggles all which are both in ziplock bags that will be five and a half ounces
that's my entire hammock suspension system and also in the lid of my pack I
also keep my tent stakes I carry five titanium Shepherd content stakes I only
need four for my tarp I carry an extra one just in case and on there I also
have a little mini titanium carabiner from dutch where what I do with this is
I'll clip this on to the ridge line up my tarp so that this just hangs there
and the last thing that I keep inside there is I keep my spork generally I
have just a little completely unused disposable dog poop bag that I'll put
this in just so if I have any kind of little food bits and stuff sometimes I
eat a lot of mountain house meals sometimes like the cheese's and stuff
will stick to your fork or whatever just to kind of keep smells contained so I'm
not rubbing food smell inside my pack so yeah I keep my spork in there
mostly just that's the way I've always done it I can't really tell you why I've
kept it separate I just always done it now going on to the outside pockets of
my pack I've got these two side pockets in each of those to keep a water bottle
now because I'm right hand dominant I find the right hand pocket is just it's
easier for me to reach into whatever reason on the water bottle in my right
hand side I always have a sports cap and I use two of these smart water bottles
but one liter those are one point three ounces for the two of them as well that
one just has a standard lid so when I stopped Philip for water and this is the
one this basically just stores when this one when the one on the right
side is empty I flip the bottles around flip the lids put this one on the right
that one on the left it's just my system works for me going to the front stretchy
mesh pocket on the outside of my cock this is where I'm going to keep things
that I want to get access to right away our filter which is basically this is a
it's kind of a a hacked-up combination of a sawyer mini and a platypus system
i've got this down to about 5 ounces it's got a 2 litre dirty reservoir bag
pretty happy with it I love this system I keep that with the else out of my pot
nice easy access next thing I keep on the outside of my
pack is my tarp I keep this on the outside of my pack not so I can drop it
throw across my face man but I keep this in the outside of my pack just so it's
accessible I like when I have this thing I've got my tarp system set up with
continuous bridge line from Dutch wear and a set of snake skins from Dutch
where I can get my tarp setup at about 45 seconds if I really need to so how do
I know the outside of my pack when I get to camp if it's absolutely pouring rain
which I ran into a lot this year yeah I get out my tarp up in about 45 seconds
and I've got a nice good covered dry area I can sit I can hang out I can get
changed I can do all my stuff nothing to pop my hammock up and keep everything
nice and dry so I keep my tarp on the outside that way I don't have to go
digging through my pack get all my stuff with also on the outside of my pack I
keep a piece of Tyvek oh I guess also the weight of my tarp because I'm
forgetting to do that is 17.3 8 ounces that is a hammock gear quest it's just
an 11 foot hex tarp I've got a Dutch where a continuous ridgeline I've got
Dutch where tarp worms I've got some reflective guidelines and stuff like
that for I'll put everything down in the description below yeah the weight on
that is seven about seventeen and a quarter ounces and then also in the
outside pocket of my pack I keep just a piece of tie deck
super-lightweight I mean this thing weighs is it to analysis this basically
just lays underneath my hammock I'll just take four rocks and kind of put
them at the corners that way I can keep all my gear kind of
underneath off the mud if it's really like raining and windy what I'll do is
they'll take the compactor bag which is in my path which you haven't seen yet
but trust me is there I promise I'll take that and I'll put my pack inside of
it and then seal that up that way everything inside there is completely
dry Lay's under my pack if it's weenie mud is splashing around what everything
stays dry but I throw this under just to kind of give me a dry spot to stab a dry
spot to place stuff weighs two ounces it's awesome super handy and then the
last thing that goes in the outside pocket of my pack is my bare hand kit
this is about 50 feet of paracord a carabiner and then this little pouch
doubles as my rock sack this is something I definitely do found on
lightning up I intend on getting just a 50-foot chunk of sing it because it's
significantly later I just haven't got there yet
who else's for my bare hand kit all right let's take care of everything
on the outside of the pack let's get into the top of the pack do we carry
inside there is there I carry the bulk of my gear so are you gonna find all the
big stuff all right now when you open my pack in the top the very first thing
you're always gonna find every single time i io organized this the same way
every time so I know where all my stuff is going to be I know how deep I have to
go to get certain things generally speaking if I need to get into my pack
on trail the first thing I'm gonna need to grab is either my rain jacket which
is a Marmot precip I know with going lightweight I know a lot of people swear
by the Frog togs and I did try them I went to repaired actually two pairs of
frog togs last year in about four trips just a lot of the trails that I've been
doing are rather overgrown I'm just I'm starting to venture a lot into more of
the Wilder areas of the parks and a lot of the Plews lines and wildland parks in
Alberta and yeah just the the Frog dogs just they don't pull it up to the
bushwhacking so it went and I got this Marmot precip it comes in two eight
ounces next thing you're gonna find is my food
bag which I usually keep right on top obviously I don't have food in there but
all I use for a food bag is I just keep a couple dry bags depending on how long
I'm going for your trip I have a couple different sizes leave my food in a dry
bag and a hang it that's what he texting you - fine is my stove and cooking
system recently did a video on my soul might be rs.3000 which shows the entire
cook system there I'll put a link to this pretty cool little system a cook
pot is a 650 ml titanium with the soft sack is four point three ounces my stove
is the BRS 3000 which is 1.25 ounces and I've got a mcvinnie which is BIC mini
which is 0.38 ounces and then emphasize that is my first aid kit
pretty baby pretty comprehensive yes I realize it goes against the lightweight
principles and I'm cool with that if you want to see what's in here I've got an
awesome video on this I love this thing I am yeah I'm super proud of my first
aid kit I'm never unprepared so yeah if you want
to see what's in here I'll put a link in the description for this one as well now
getting into the big part of the pack and maybe you can kind of see what I
basically have is a big contractor grade trash compactor garbage bag one of the
thick plastic ones everything that I need to keep dry is inside that so like
I was saying with the brain of my pack yeah there's a couple electronics and
stuff in there that I want to keep dry if it starts to rain ID clip the brain
stuff it in here I just I like having certain things really handy and
accessible like if it's chilly on trail I like having my gloves like be able to
get my buff if it gets dark I like gonna get my headlamp I like having the brain
and the pack on the top but yeah it's just I like it that way so you
digging into the compactor bag now as I organize things in here is generally
speaking sort of gonna be what I'm gonna need to get right away first thing on
the top is going to be my puffy jacket this is my Mountain Hardwear Ghost
Whisperer this thing is awesome seven ounces ridiculously warm yeah
they're pricey but they are well worth it yeah I love this thing then you're
gonna get to my clothes bag this just has a whole bunch of random extra
clothes in it I've got everything listed under my
clothing and all my spare clothing things so I carry one pair of merino
wool darn tough sauce I carry one synthetic shirt I carry a pair of shorts
in here my rain gear doesn't go in here but I have it in the list with my
clothing but my green rake is not in this pack Ghost Whisperer now my green
above head where like I said I carry in the lid but I have a listener here and I
carry you one pair of merino wool bottoms for base layers just to sleep in
I just tend to just sleep in a t-shirt I use a 20 degree quilt all summer so I
never really have any issue with being cold thing I've got just a little mini
PAC towel which I kind of just trimmed down it weighs about an ounce and a half
I've got my Argan pillow from ducks where it's literally just basically I
think it's the climate shield synthetic insulation inside I just I love it
for like cool nights I finally don't really need a pillow inside the hammock
but it's nice just to kind of like tuck under the top of my head and it just
kind of gives you a little bit of extra warmth where sometimes the top of the
under quilt doesn't cover you and then I've got my little shopper hammocks
warrior hammock coming in at 20 point six three ounces absolutely love this
thing we get to the quilts so the black one
this is my little shop of hammocks 20 degree full-length toaster underquilt
custom-made I've got a video on it just insanely warm probably my favorite piece
of gear just for how warm it keeps me I absolutely love my under quilt I cannot
see enough good things about it
lay gorgeous blue and orange go away let's go
bandit top coat from ugq 20 degrees under cool comes in - 26 ounces my top
coil comes in at 20 and yeah that's supportive my hammock is 20 ounces I
probably forgot to list off weeds as I was going through and that's fine kiss
you know hey whatever we're just having fun but yeah that's that's my garbage
bag it's not gonna ribs not gonna puncture keeps all my gear dry yeah this
it works for me I didn't list any of my electronics obviously I carry you all my
electronics in my ribs pack I don't really class that as my base
weight that's all extra stuff that I carry just because I'm out there having
fun doing my thing making videos just because I'm having fun so I didn't list
that my name is my bear spray stuff like God to me that's just kind of I guess
territory specific I mean for me yes I always carry my bear spray
I do not walk onto a single trail without my bear spray I'm up here in the
Rockies is just yeah you got some Grizzlies a lots of black bears and it's
just the smartest thing to do but I didn't list that stuff I just kind of
wanted to show just strictly my backpacking gear what works for me this
is what I've used for an entire year in the Rockies I've gone through every kind
of weather I've dealt with hot knees I've dealt with cold days I dealt with
rain I have dealt with entire trips were raining the entire time
zero times was I uncomfortable in any way shape or form
I guess maybe this will help inspire somebody else to start getting into the
lay right stuff I know it's kind of a this weird idea that people have that
like the Canadian Rockies is this place where you can't do lightweight
backpacking and I'm just gonna say it's bullshit because I'm doing it and it
works this is my setup I know I'm not ultra Lite at this point in time I mean
I sure I could go with a couple lighter weight quilts I could go with a Cuban
tarp and I could probably shave a couple more pounds down but you know what 14
pounds is fine from you I'm okay with that
so yeah if you guys have any questions at all don't hesitate to ask if you have
not hit that subscribe button do it it's gonna be probably one of the best
decisions of your life this is like the funnest YouTube channel here we're gonna
check out anyways as I said before I'm Maddy thank you guys for watching