welcome back guys and gals matty back again
as you guys can probably tell by the title this video we are talking another
gear loadout today this is one a lot of you guys and gals
have been asking about this is my hammock backpacking gear loadout
now the big difference between my hammock backpacking gear load and a lot
of other people's backpacking gear loadout
is i pretty much exclusively hike with my gorgeous girl wanda
now wanda's not here right now and i had every intention of trying to film this
one with her here but my fiancee lizzy's got
her out and about right now so i'm stuck doing this one on my own
but even without wanda here we are gonna talk about wanda's gear a
little bit now this is wanda's mountain smith canine pack
this is her new pack that she's been rocking for 2020. absolutely in love
with this pack we've done a recent video on this pack
i'll put a link in the description box down below if you guys want to check
that out and if you guys are interested in any of the gear wanda carries in her
pack i'll put a card up over here for you
guys so you guys can check that out and see all the gear that wanda carries for
our backpacking trips now with wanda's tack out of the way we're gonna dive
into my pack and what i've got for you guys is i went
and did another lighter pack list so if you guys want to check that one
out i'll put a link in the description box down below
if you guys want to follow along and see all the gear that i'm carrying on my
pack i've got some descriptions of waste listed for all the gear that i'm
carrying the total loadout for my pack the base
weight is 14.29 pounds which may seem like quite a bit but i
guarantee you guys i've got a far different hammock set up than you guys
have probably seen anybody out there carrying
like i said i do exclusively backpack with my dog
and i am carrying gear in my pack for my dog as we get going through my pack you
guys are gonna see i got some pretty sweet custom gear for
myself and my dog so let's dive into my pack and as we're going through it you
guys will kind of get an idea of how i load my pack for my backpacking
trips first thing we're going to talk about is two very important pieces of
health and safety gear now if you guys have seen any of my trip
videos these two pieces of gear you see in pretty much every shot that i ever
have of myself out in the back country as my bear spray and my inreach my bear
spray cost me 10 ounces and my delorman reaches 6 ounces with
the health and safety stuff out of the way
we're going to dive into my pack this is my osprey exos 58
i don't carry the brain on my pack and i've trimmed a couple of the straps to
save myself a couple ounces here and there
but i've got this pack down to 34 ounces as it is right now
i'm pretty happy with that i know i could go with a lighter pack but
i'm absolutely in love with the comfort of this osprey pack and 34 ounces is
pretty good to me first piece of wonder related
here you guys will see pretty much always strapped to the bottom of my pack
is this blue foam roll it's just one of those half inch thick blue foam sleeping
pads that i've cut down to about her size it
weighs five ounces as you can probably see it's a little
beat up and abused but it just gives her a little bit insulation from the cold
ground when she's sleeping down below me the
exodus 58 has pockets on either side of the pack
they're kind of little stretchy pockets for your water bottles in one of those
pockets i also carry my therma z seat this thing weighs two ounces my z
seat is also part of my sleep system this goes inside my top quilt and gives
me a little bit of extra warmth because i use a partial like thunder
quilt that only goes to about the back of my knees
so my heels rest on here and my calves this essentially helps keep the back of
my legs warm on those cooler nights so uh yeah my
thermos z seat is pretty essential to my backpacking little with my hammock
and on those two side pockets i carry two one liter smart bottles
these guys weigh an ounce and a quarter a piece this little white guy here this
is my tent stakes i carry 10 titanium shepherd hook tent
stakes all 10 stakes weigh 2.25 ounces i also carry my fuel bottle out front on
my pack this is a 10 ounce fuel bottle i use an
alcohol stove so i like keeping my fuel outside my
pack just in case it ever leaks it's not going to leak into my pack and get all
my stuff wet but the fuel bottle weighs an ounce
itself coming in at 2.25 ounces my catedine be free
you guys are probably tired of hearing me rant and rave about how much i
absolutely love this water filter but i can't say enough good things about the
catidine b3 this is probably going to be my water filter for a very very long
time until something lighter and more packable comes out on the
market i will be rocking the catidine b3 but i absolutely love this water filter
the last thing i carry on the outside of my pack is my ugq winter dream 12.
this is my big gray tarp you guys probably see in all my backpacking trips
this guy weighs 24 ounces that includes the continuous ridgeline
and all my guy outs and all my dutch bling on this tarp
i haven't actually done a video on this tarp yet i do intend to at some point in
time but uh yeah i do rock a ugq winter dream
12 for my tarp setup very first thing you're going to find
when you open the top of my pack is going to be my rain jacket this is my
frogtogs rain jacket this thing weighs 4 ounces and it cost me 20 bucks
next up here is my cook set this is my tocs titanium 550
with my homemade alcohol stove and windscreen and all kind of stuff inside
there i'm not going to go over too much detail
on my quick setup you guys are interested in what i carry
for a cook system i'll pop a card up here for you guys i've done a whole
video on my complete cook system this thing weighs four and a half ounces
and the titanium spork weighs half an ounce so five ounces right here for my
entire cook setup next thing at the top of my pack is my ursac major xl this is
my food bag that i've gone with this guy weighs eight ounces uh if
you're not sure what an earth sack is it's basically a bear resistant bag like
i mentioned at the start i hike a lot in grizzly territory so instead of having
to hang a food bag i can just tie my ursack to a tree and bears are
not going to be able to get into it so yeah eight ounces from urosac major xl
and then i've just got a little reflectix koozie that i've made this guy
weighs one and a half ounce just for rehydrating my homemade
dehydrated meals i don't like doing the store-bought meals
i only really do the store-bought meals when i don't have time to make my own
but i do prefer doing my own home dehydrated
meals and a little reflectix koozie for keeping my meals warm when they're
rehydrating here i've got my custom hilltops pack dyneema stuff sack this is
what i keep all my clothes in so i've got my mountain hardwear ghost
whisperer my merino buff a spare shirt a spare pair of socks
spare underwear and my tights that i carry
in this stuff sack here i keep my headlamp which is two ounces my first
aid kit which is four and a half ounces my toiletry kit which is 3.2 ounces and
my knife which is an ounce and the still stuff sack itself weighs 0.35 ounces
this here is wanda's oilers fleece blanket this weighs about eight ounces
this is what i carry for her bedding at night she generally doesn't need it but
it just kind of gives me peace of mind that on a cooler night
or if it's windy out or if she goes to bed wet i can throw this over top of her
and being fleece she'll actually dry herself out pretty
quick with her body heat so i do carry a fleece blanket for her and like i said
weighs eight ounces now we're getting into the fun stuff
in this stuff sock here this is my tree straps my dutch hooks my whoopee slings
and my toggles my whoopie sing suspension is actually one thing
that i've never changed from my backpacking setup uh this guy weighs
five ounces and the reason i carry it in its own
stuff socks in case i ever get tree sap on my straps
i like being able to pack that away so i'm not getting tree sap all over the
rest of my gear plus my suspensions not sure if you can read the label here on
the stuff sack but this is my dream hammock raven
now this here i will say is the absolute most comfortable hammock i have
ever laid in i i cannot rave enough about my dream hammock raven
and i haven't made a video on it yet but i i am intending on making a video on my
dream hammock raven but uh yeah this is the gorgeous blue
hammock that i have been rocking this year
uh 12.6 ounces for my raven without the bug net
now one of the advantages of going with the raven and the reason i went with it
is because i can take the bug knit off and i can leave the bug
net at home and the reason that's important for me
is this guy right here this here was my absolute favorite piece of gear that i
got in 2019 and it is still one of my absolute
favorite pieces of gear i'll say this guy right here is probably
my favorite piece of gear i've ever bought for my havoc setup this is my
cave creek pet palace this guy weighs 21 ounces
if you're not sure what the pet palace is this is the fully integrated bug net
and bathtub floor that hangs over my hammock and it allows
wanda to sleep underneath me she's completely sealed inside so she's
not getting eaten by bugs i cannot say enough good things about my pet palace
if you guys want to check out the pet palace i've got a video that i've done
on it and i'll link it up over here for you guys yeah that's my cave creek pet
palace i absolutely love this piece of gear now
we're getting into the installation portion of my setup
this here is my ugq banded 20 degree top quilt
this guy weighs 21.6 ounces you're probably tired of me ratting and raving
about my bandit but uh if you want to check out my video
i've done on this i will link it up in the cards over here for you guys
and coming in at 18.6 ounces this is my little shop a hammock specter partial
underquilt now like i was saying before when i
talked about my thermos z seat this is a partial length under quilt so
it's a little bit shorter than most under quilts and it only comes to about
the back of my knees but i do use my thermores z seat as part
of my sleep system but yeah this is my under quilt that i
use to keep my bottom half warm and avoid cold butt syndrome when i'm in my
hammock just like that my pack is completely empty
now if you guys enjoyed this one and you guys are interested in what i use on a
ground sleeping setup what i got up over here is a video i
recently did on my ground sleeping setup so when you
guys are done watching this one head over there check that one out as
always guys i am maddie thank you guys so dang much for watching
and i'll see you guys on the next one