so this is a gear video i'm going to go through all the gear that i'm taking on my 800 kilometer
through hike the hrp or the pyrenean horde route across spain i start in two days and
i'm gonna go through everything that's in my kit in not too much detail let's get into it
all the stuff i'm carrying is in two little packs that's my camelbak flow hip belt and then my
pack which is lightweight elementum and i think everything that i'm carrying works out to be about
five kilos so that's my base weight on top of this i'll have food and water and everything else
all the other consumables but we're not going to go through that just my base weight stuff
but let's begin with what i'm wearing right now my clothing so i have a really nice little
lightweight hat from salomon it's got a little legionnaires flap on the end here
and i can take that off if i feel like being slightly less dorky then sunglasses these are from
glacier optics and i've just put a croakies strap on the back so that if i'm running or bouncing
around i can tighten that up and they're not going to fall down my nose because i they are a little
bit loose but they're beautiful sunglasses i really like the nice brown tint there's also a
couple of little extra leather pieces that i can use if i really wanted some protection from the
science my shirt is from seliwa i wanted something long sleeve i wanted a collar and i wanted
something that would dry really quickly something really nice and light i've used it on a few trips
already and so far it's really good i can just jump in a stream to wash it really stretchy
really comfortable highly recommended my shorts are from kip run these are just really cheap
shorts from decathlon here in europe again they dry really quickly so i can just jump in a stream
and wash them and i'm only bringing one pair i've got my mask which is an essential piece of free
hiking in a pandemic then i've got my footwear on my feet i have the civil light socks i'm bringing
two pairs of those got a whole video about those if you want to see it for my shoes i've got the
ultra olympus 4. again i've done a whole video on me so if you want to see more detail but
essentially what i was going for here is zero drop wide relatively flexible yeah it's almost
a natural style barefoot shoe but as you can see it's got a lot of cushioning and i'm not quite at
the completely barefoot or natural footwear stage yet i wanted a little bit of cushion
for these 800 kilometers across this mountain range so i'll get there one day for those of you
who have seen that video and you're wondering how they're holding up i've probably done about two
to three hundred kilometers by now and nothing's changed those little holes have managed to stay
little holes so i'm pretty confident that these are gonna last fairly well for the entire trip all
right let's get into the next piece of equipment this is the camelbak flow my hip belt not too
many through hikers are using big chunky kind of hip belts like this but i went for this because
i need to get my camera and my microphone in here and it's just nice to have something at your hips
in this case i've got a few other bits and pieces i've got a bluetooth timer for my phone if i want
to be taking shots i've got my sony headphones same as last year that i use these are beautiful
there's a wc 200 got a separate battery pack there that lasts probably about eight to 12 hours
and the reason why i like that is because if i run out of battery it kind of forces me to just
kind of listen and tune into nature and enjoy the sound so i like having a limited amount of music
and podcasts also in here i've got a couple of spare batteries from my camera i'm using the canon
m50 which is what i'm filming on now so we'll take a look at that i've got the canon m50 just
with the kit lens i've got an nd filter on the front here which takes the harsh daylight out
of my shots i've got a rode video micro microphone with a windscreen and then here i've got the joby
1k gorillapod which means i can grip onto absolutely anything i can use trees fences
whatever this thing is really great and i've saved so much weight from leaving my 1.2 kilo
tripod at home and bringing this joby gorillapod with me so that's where a lot of my weight savings
have come from also in here i've replaced the regular camelbak bottle that comes with the flow
with my main water filtering source and my main water bottle which is the cadid and b3 i think
if you watch a lot of these hiking videos you probably know enough about this already
i've got 600 mil of storage there and a lot of the time we're just walking past streams
so i can fill up really quickly and easily when it's located in my hip belt and then in the front
i've got just my wallet that's got some cash and my cards and id and all that basic stuff all right
let's get to the actual backpack this is the same pack that i used last year lightweight elementum
beautiful pack weighs about 500 grams or so on the outside here these are my trekking poles this is
the leki trail i think this is the most basic model that lekki make i've gone for aluminium
this year rather than carbon because last year i snapped a carbon pole i just really wanted
something really strong i didn't want to get in the position where i was breaking another pole so
this is basically the strongest most basic pole i could find it's also the cheapest so i'll let
you know how it goes my water storage i've just got a couple of two liter plastic water bottles
i don't love taking plastic water bottles into the outdoors because one time when it was empty with
really strong wind it flew away and i could never find it so i wanted to get a soft bottle i wanted
to get the hydro pack two liter and bring two of those but i just couldn't get a hold of them in
time so i've just got two of your standard basic water bottles another soft flask this one doesn't
have a filter in it just a 500 mil so those two bottles and these two soft bottles mean i've got a
decent water carrying capacity for the hrp on the back support in my pack i've got my sleeping mat
therm-a-rest z-light cut down into eight sections and this isn't the most comfortable thing ever
but it's the best solution that i've found i did buy a therm-a-rest neo-air uber light but it was
really hard to sleep on i kept falling off it and it's just so thin that i i really don't trust
it so i'm going to go just with something that is absolutely foolproof thermostat like on the
front section of my pack i've got a really nice little stretchy area here and i've got my colgan's
trowel here it's about 50 grams i want to get a deuce of spades but they're pretty expensive to
get sent to spain i'll get one eventually i've got some seam grip because i still haven't seam sealed
my tent yet i'm planning to do that this afternoon i've had it for a year and i still haven't seam
sealed it but so far it's been fine and the last thing on the outside of my pack is my rain kit so
this is a combination of two different pieces of clothing we'll grab them out now and take a look
so firstly this year i am bringing rain pants these are just a really cheap version from
a department store here in spain called corten glaze and some of the stuff they make is actually
pretty good these are mountain pro brand they were 10 bucks they're about 130 grams
they look goofy as hell but they'll do the job then for my rain jacket which i haven't even
used yet this came in the other day so this is the montbell versa light this is my windshield it's my
range shell and i've not used it yet it just came in the mail but i trust the people who recommend
this stuff to me thanks chris grateful hike on instagram what's up guys he's a pyrenees veteran
so i trust the gear that he's recommended to me so this is gore wind stopper really super light
most important thing is that it's got pit zips so if i am too warm and i start sweating then i can
just open the pit zips i can open this all the way it's a pretty warm day and i'm already starting to
sweat so we're gonna take it off okay now we're gonna get into what is actually on the inside
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what is actually inside my pack and everything that's inside my pack is inside a dcf liner so
let's pull that out and have a look so this is a dcf pack liner from lightweight equipment
same manufacturer that made my pack this is a prototype it's not actually out in the
market yet but those guys were kind enough to send it to me to test it out so far it's been
great obviously super lightweight very low tech there's no buckle at the top or anything it's just
a gigantic garbage bag and i know what you're thinking why don't you just use a garbage bag well
offsearch high and low for a really durable lightweight garage bag i still haven't been
able to find one they tend to break and this thing has been indestructible so far so all right let's
take a look inside i've got my cold soak container i'm not strictly cold soaking for this entire trip
but i wanted to give myself the opportunity to be able to do it so i'm bringing the jar along
with me that'll serve as my cup and i plan to cold soak probably two weeks at least out of my entire
trip which i think is going to be about a month the rest of the time i'm cooking and everything
i'm cooking with is in this little pot i've got my gsi outdoors coffee filter i am going to be
bringing coffee on this trip i really needed that luxury and then for my stove i've got the
brs 3000 as a really super lightweight stove you've probably seen a lot of other hikers use
this and that's because it weighs like an ounce or 28 grams and it's the lightest stove out there so
i am bringing a stove but i'm going pretty minimal with it and i've got a little mini lighter inside
because this thing does not have a piezo this is my food bag this is from cedar summit and
there's not really much to talk about in here inside here is a plastic bottle of olive oil
you can get these in spain pretty easily and that feels like a lot of weight but
if you count the actual calories that are in here it's probably the most lightweight food there is
i've got a bunch of ziploc bags which i like to keep to put my food in i've got my single utensil
for this trip which is a primus spoon also in the cook set is my opinel made in france it's
a little bit rusty from last year this is a number 12 but it's really light i'm done with bringing a
tiny little swiss army knife i find it useless i want a real decent sized knife redneck gun
let's move on so this little cedar summit dry bag is basically my bathroom and first aid kit i have
a bamboo toothbrush i've got a dental floss with a little sewing needle attached to the thread so
this can be really useful for gear repairs in the worst possible situation it could be
used for first aid i've got some dent tabs rather than bringing toothpaste i'm going to be bringing
these little single chew tablets so i've also got ear plugs which is very handy when it's a
windy night and the wind is smashing up against the tent and it's too loud for you to sleep
these are absolutely crucial i've got cedar summit soap sheets this is body wash shampoo
i could use it for cleaning dishes and you don't need much there's enough in here to keep me going
for a couple of trips probably this is just a little bit of tenacious tape from gear aid there's
quite a lot there i probably didn't need the whole lot i also usually bring a couple of zip ties now
we're getting kind of into a first aid territory so i've got 3m steri strips just in case there's a
gash or a wound that i need to kind of stitch up and then there's just drugs basically paracetamol
imodium in case you have diarrhoea back up water treatment pills ibuprofen we've got an antiseptic
spray for cleaning wounds and this one can also be used orally as well we've got a little plastic
mirror toenail clippers more random drugs finally just a little bit of luco tape just for body
repairs you could probably make a sprained ankle a little bit more bearable with just a little bit
of this stuff so always bring that okay moving on to electronics so in here i've got my anchor
20 000 milliamp hour battery the ravpower one from last year i found didn't really perform that well
so i've gone with anchor this year hopefully it's going to perform better it's also a little bit
lighter 348 grams i got very close to getting a night core but it was quite expensive what i did
get from nitecore is the head torch that you've probably seen a million times i think this is
the nu25 i've taken the strap off and just put a little bit of bungee cord you've probably seen
these a lot i'm pretty sure every hiking youtuber has one of these and that's because it's a great
little torch also in here i've got my power extra charger so this plugs directly into the anchor
and i can recharge my camera batteries with that i'm bringing three batteries in total
then the rest of this is just cords then i had to bring an iphone cable because i've got the
iphone 11 which i'm filming on here i'm not happy about having to bring an extra cord but that's
apple for you also forgot to mention i'm bringing a charging base this one is 68 grams from yb power
uh fast charging and two other usbs sold getting on to the business end of things
here i have my shelter this is the lightweight pyra ohms the same one i used last year
but with a big change i'm not using the inner mesh instead i'm just going with a tent floor
and for my temp floor i'm just using your advice i bought a polycryo ground sheet
weighs next to nothing i've used it a couple of times and i'm really happy with it it does just
really stink when it's wet so i have to dry it out every single day but that's going to be fine
for a 10th floor i won't have any bug protection but i'm going to get into my solution for that
shortly now there's a lot to go through with this tent so i've made a whole video if you want
to see more detail on it i'll link it up here and in the description so you can check it out
okay last thing in my pack and this is basically just all my nighttime kind of comfortable things
so this mesh bag that contains all this stuff came with my quilt from lightweight equipment
and i actually used it as a mosquito headband so it kind of has two really great little functions
inside this little bag is the rest of my clothing so i have a wool t-shirt from decathlon it's a
four class really basic merino wool base layer and i can throw that on if i want a little bit
of extra warmth in a base layer i did consider bringing a long sleeve version but i really
just don't think i will need it i think that's going to be plenty it is going to be still pretty
warm up there in august then i have from the same brand the same material four class merino
neck gator so this can serve both as a neck gaitor it can serve as a beanie lots of other different
uses i could probably use it as a towel in fact the towel is the one thing that i don't have in
here i forgot but it's the same towel that i used last year then i've got another little luxury item
this is my pillow again same one that i used last year i really value a good night's sleep
if i sleep well i can do a lot more kilometers so i figure it's worth bringing a little bit
of extra weight to be able to sleep comfortably speaking of comfort i brought some track pants
this is probably my oldest piece of kit these are from mountain designs in australia just a
really lightweight pair of fleece pants these things are going to get very dirty and sweaty
and i don't want to wear them every single night in bed so i'll be kind of wearing these
fleece pajamas then this may come as a surprise to some of you i'm wearing i'm bringing an insulated
jacket last year i didn't i just used my poncho quilt which i am bringing again this year but
this is from montvel this is the therma wrap ul so it's got the hood it's synthetic i've never had a
synthetic jacket before i've used it a couple of times so far it's very very comfortable i'm really
looking forward to some of those colder windier days where i can put this on and be really cozy
but i'm really happy with it so far and i would love to do a full video on this one
once i've got a little bit more experience with it okay finally we have my sleeping bag poncho
so this is a new piece of gear from lightweight equipment and this will function as a quilt it can
also be an extra down jacket so essentially it's just a big rectangle of down and then at the end
you have a drawstring here which creates your foot box and you've got a very short zip i actually put
my thermarest z light behind these little clips of bungee cord i find with sleeping bags they end up
being too tight and really uncomfortable half the time i end up out of them or off my mats so having
a quilt that both wraps around my sleeping mat to keep me in there and something that can be used in
really really cold weather as a down poncho is a really nice option to have i've only used this
thing a couple of times but again i'll be making a more detailed video on it once i've got a few more
miles on it so if you have questions about any of this gear feel free to leave a comment below
sometimes it's hard to keep track of this stuff and for that reason i started a discord which
is basically an online forum for hikers we can discuss different routes gear nutrition anything
to do with hiking we've got about 350 members there already it's completely free i'd love to see
you there the link is in the description one thing i did forget to mention is sunscreen that was uh
right in the hip pocket of my backpack here by the way i should say thanks to cancer at
the art community here it's a really nice little community if you're an artist and
you're looking for somewhere to hang out and do your thing then come and check out their
website or their instagram beautiful place to sit down and be creative see monster out in
the background there thanks guys for letting me use this space i'll see you on the summit