Loadout: Wet and Windy Day-Hike
We’re asking our readers to show us the content of their packs. Here’s a submission from a great supporter of Pack Config, Jed Edwards.
This is my loadout for a day-hike on a wet and very windy day in December.
In the pack lid-pocket:
In the main pack:
- 1L Nalgene bottle
- Lunchbox
- Dutch Army Goretex trousers
- Highlander Mission Fleece
- Marmot Stormshield
- 5.11 ripstop hat
- Thinsulate wooly hat
- Exped drybag containing: Spare socks, British Army ‘Norge’ top, shemagh
- First aid kit
- Local OS map
- Emergency space blanket
In the Triple 7 Gear MK-7 pouch: EDC and ‘what-if’ items, including…
- Gerber Dime
- Petzl Tikka
- A few metres of Gorilla-Tape wrapped around an unused card
Outside the pack:
- Red Adventure Light Tag-It
- Nite Ize S-Biner
- Dutch Army water bottle (in steel cup) – side pockets
- and whatever hat I wasn’t wearing at the time
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