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about things i'm done with for 2022. now a lot of these are some of my favorite gear items ever
but for one reason or another i won't be packing them out with me in the backcountry this year
so the first item i'm done with for 2022 is my msr mother hubba tent now this is a great tent
i did a review on this a couple years ago and i really love this tent as it's packed here this is
not how i would carry it in my backpack i always separated the poles from the tent and the fly
and packed them separately with the poles on the outside of my pack
and yeah it's always worked well for me it's a good quality lightweight waterproof tent great for
backpacking but it's a three person tent and a lot of my trips i go solo and it's just a little bit
too much tent i love the space i love the luxury of bringing my pack and everything inside with me
but i'm trying to cut some weight so the tent is uh one of the things i'm sacrificed so
last year i got a great deal on the nemo hornet two-person tent now it's a lot smaller and a
lot lighter in my pack so uh obviously the the poles are not in this bag but you can see that
even so it's a much smaller pack and it's much lighter too so this is only a two-person
tent but still plenty of room for me when i'm solo hiking and uh it's my new go-to for 2022.
that's why for this year the mother hubba is going back in the garage
now the second item i'm done with for 2022 is my north face rain jacket now this is a
great rain jacket however you know i dropped a few pounds and i found the jocks just a little
too big for me so i was looking around for something new last year and i settled on the
patagonia torrent shell rain jacket i really love it it's got an adjustable hood
it's got the underarm zips and all the things that i loved about my north face jacket uh the
the patagonia has it as well and it's got a great color and all around it's great um i got nothing
negative to say about this north face jacket in fact if it was a size smaller i probably would
have kept it and still be using it today but it's a little bit bigger and it's a little bit heavier
and for those two reasons you know i'm pretty happy with my patagonia so the north face rain
jacket is going back into storage and you won't see me wearing this in 2022 now the third thing
i'm done with for 2022 is my trekology inflatable air pillow now i am definitely a pillow fan
uh when i'm sleeping i spent you spend a third of your life sleeping and when you're tired after a
day of hiking and you set up camp and you get into your sleeping bag i like to be comfortable
and part of that comfort me for me has always been a pillow and i've used this pillow for a long time
and uh it's it's great but it's an inflatable so it's a little bit hard it's better than nothing
for sure i definitely pillow guy and this these things are cheap you can find them on online
for really cheap and if your rest is important i'd still recommend one of these but i started using a
bigger a bigger pillow and this is more of your traditional pillow it's quite a bit bigger but
you know what i find it doesn't take up much more room in my backpack and it's a little bit heavier
but it's marginal and this thing it compacts up small and i can stuff it into holes that you know
where i might just put a jacket or clothes or something so i find it's not really taking up
any extra space and the luxury of sleeping with an actual pillow in my sleeping bag just helps me
go to sleep faster and wake up more rested and for that reason you know i'm sticking with this pillow
and the trekology inflatable air pillow is going back into storage for the summer
now the fourth item i'm done with is actually if you if you watch the video i did last year
for things i'm done with for 2021 this is the item that i said i was packing and this is my
nemo astro sleeping pad last year i tossed out my therm-a-rest pro light pad in favor of the
nemo for uh for size so this is a lot smaller pad it's really light it's um pretty good rv
are value and i really like it but i did a i did a video in the fall
about uh different sleeping pads and i'll leave a link for that here if you guys are interested
and what i found was therm-a-rest is back on the market so they make a number of great pads
and i i experimented with this neoair pro light and this thing is amazing it's not only lighter
than my nemo it's got a way better r value and it's uh it is a little bigger
but but that's because this is the long wide pad so i've got a lot more sleeping area than i do
with this one uh the regular uh pro light pad is the same size as this so but it's a lot lighter
and it's thicker and it keeps me a little warmer and i love it i uh i reviewed it and um this pad
way better than this one and this is still a great pad and i'll be uh using it for any you
know guests that come out i'll be pulling out mother hubba and the nemo pad for my guest but
for myself and my solo trips it's definitely the therm-a-rest pro light and that's why for 2022
you won't see me packing this nemo astro pad on my solo trips it's going back in the garage
now the final item the final item that i'll be uh skipping uh this year is probably my oldest piece
of gear and it's got a lot of sentimental value and it's my knife i've been packing this knife
around for almost as long as i've been backpacking and it's a great quality knife i loved it
you know i've i've done so much fishing with this thing this thing's cleaned so many fish chop so
much firewood with that saw but it is a big unit and it is heavy and last year i picked up little
multi-kit tool it's a swiss army knife and it's a multi-tool it's got like 18 different things on
it including a little flashlight a screwdriver a corkscrew a bunch of things i might never use but
it's got way more utility than my old knife it's still got the saw and the uh
and the knife uh but it's got scissors and a few other tools that might come in handy
from time to time and that's why uh it's smaller it's lighter it's it's replaced my
old knife in my pack and that's why as as sad as i am to see it go uh this knife is finding
its way back into my fishing kit and you won't see me packing it out in my backpack this year
so that's it guys those are the five items that i'll be leaving out for uh 2022. they're all
great for one reason or another i i'm keeping all those items but you won't see me packing them on
my solo trips interested always in what you guys think these are clearly just my opinions on those
items so uh you guys probably got opinions too why don't you leave them down in the comments or
reach out to me on social media i'm always happy to respond back whenever i hear from my fans
so until next week i'll see you guys on the trail it's papa steve on the move
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