Boundary Waters Quetico Forum :: Group Forum: Solo Tripping :: Where does this go?
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Blatz |
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GopherAdventure |
Food barrel Red bag: med kit, fire items, rope, tape, patch kits, weather radio, etc. White bag: clothing, hats, gloves Blue bag: Mess kit: pots/pans, bowl, mug utensils, fillet knife, stove (isobutane or twig stove), fuel if necessary Saw Gravity water filter Solo tent Sleeping bag/pad Rain gear Video cameras (2) and mounts, spare batteries Nalgene bottle 1 Not in pack: Map case( clipped to outside of pack or thwart bar): maps, compass, pens, permit Yak paddle Straight shaft paddle Two fishing rods Tackle bag PFD w/ ditch kit in pocket, BDB’s, whistle, energy bar in other pocket Nalgene bottle 2 (clipped to pack) Optional: small bait container Optional: small fish finder (1 lb) with suction cup transducer I can comfortably handle this load and still single portage. Sometimes I’ll bring a camp chair, tarp or some other luxury items if I plan on covering less distance. Getting a new 2 lb tent this year, which should really cut weight and space! Tony |
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DanCooke |
2 Packs- One CCS Pioneer , One rucksack, Pioneer Pack contents. Exped downmat, Down sleeping bag with silk Liner Homemade Tent, Helinox chair, clothes, 1 extra pair of shoes for camp, Rainjacket and pants, first aid kit. Spare Maps and maps not needed for the day. Headlamp, Spare batteries. Rucksack contents My food for 11 Days in BV500 Bear Vault, MSR reactor stovekit 3 (Three 8 oz iso propane canisters.), MSR water purifier, 1 nalgene water bottle, CCS kitchen mesh bag with Squishy bowl, spoon,matches. Dish soap, scrubby. Camera in PFD pocket, Nalgene rested in saddle bag of seat pad along with glasses, sunscreen and lip balm. 2 paddles one spoon blade whitewater, one bent shaft. One paddle attached to the top of canoe cover along with the current maps in map case. Typically carried the canoe and Rucksack across first then came pack for the Pioneer pack and paddles. Then helped with carrying another load and or watched the toddler of my tripping partners. |
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PineKnot |
Jaywalker: "I tend to bring more gear and more food than a lot of other solo paddlers for several reasons, so tend to have an extra pack, but one practice I adopted years ago is to have one pack with my tent and everything that goes in the tent (sleeping bag, pad, clothes, Luci lamp, books, etc.) and one bag that has my tarp and everything that goes under my tarp (saw, axe, cook stuff, chair, etc). When I get to camp, I drop one pack by the fire pit and the other on my chosen tent pad. Minimizes walking around and confusion of what’s where. " Similar strategy. Most of my trips range from 12-16 days. Smaller pack contains all my clothing, bag, pad, personal items, books, slippers-everything that goes in the tent, minus the tent. My large pack has everything else. The lid on my large pack has two zippered pockets and can detach--the lid contains my fishing gear, sunscreen, bug dope, snack food/gorp which is easy to access so no need to get into main pack till at camp.... |
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cowdoc |
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sns |
Blatz: "No help here. Everything for a week fits into 1 CCS Explorer pack." More or less similar...my pack has a little less volume than the CCS Explorer, but regardless, I'm in one pack. Dog for balance in the front. |
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R00kie |
Let's say you have two packs CCS Pioneer Pack size and a small day pack/ fanny pack. What goes where? Food and clothes together? You get the idea. Please let us know what works best for you and why. Thanks!! |
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boonie |
Like tipsy, my meals are very simple add water meals and I carry it in Ursacks with OPsacks. Packs are waterproof/lined. Clothes are in waterproof compression stuff sack. I usually go for 2 weeks+ though and take no cigars/whiskey nor chair/hatchet. I usually go in mid-to-late Sept. so carry gear and clothing appropriate to that. |
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sedges |
I have one # 2 Duluth Pack. Probably about the same volume as your Pioneer. It hold 2 bear cannisters side by side with room on top for tent and tarp w/ropes in a long stuff sac. maybe some misc. gear since I got my 28 OZ tent. My other pack is a simple military-style duffel. It has handle, but no straps. When portaging it rides comfortably on top of the #2 and resting against my neck and head. I don't have to have a hand on it for it to stay put so my hands are free. It has two stuff sacs, one with pad and sleeping bag and one with clothes plus some miscellaneous gear. What is nice about the duffel is that it fits up in the bow allowing me to have all my packs in front of me. I have my seat on rails, so I can move it quite a ways toward the stern for easier paddling and boat control. Day pack has all the stuff I use while traveling As my food cannisters empty out I transfer stuff from the duffel to a cannister. This has worked fine for a 10 day tour. I imagine I could squeeze in a couple more days of food with adding any packs. |
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TipsyPaddler |
Meals are simple boil and/or rehydrate dishes. I don’t like cooking fancy meals and, even more so, doing the clean up/dishes they tend to generate. I don’t fish. I bring a few creature comforts...Helinox chair, saw and/or hatchet, a liter of good whiskey, a few cigars, an Amazon Kindle. Food goes in an Ursack at the top of the pack outside the pack liner. On longer trips, when I retire and the kids are older, the only thing I would add is more food, fuel and whiskey. If I needed a 2nd Ursack to hold it that would probably get tossed into my CCS Rucksack but that would be a last resort if I couldn’t get it into the Pioneer. I like to single portage or at least the option of it. |
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Minnesotian |
Two packs. 70 liter Sea-to-Summit dry bag. Gets loaded up right behind my seat in the canoe. Contains sleeping bag, tent, cooking gear, clothing, tarp, book/whiskey, gravity water filter, cooking grate (Quetico), hatchet (late September/October trips) and other various small things all in their own separate dry bags, especially the clothes and sleeping bag. 35 liter Jansport backpack from about 20 years ago. Gets loaded directly in front of me, and I can slide it forward or backward in the canoe, depending on the wind conditions. Contains either my food in an Ursack or a Bearvault, depending on what I have heard. I also only do heat water meals, also known as Freezer Bag Cooking. Both can hold two weeks of food. The Jansport also contains my headlamps, binoculars, navigation tools (maps, compass, GPS), traveling water filter and a spare knife. I always am wearing my PDF with has another knife as well as my ditch kit and a spare headlamp. I keep my InReach on my PDF as well. I double portage, taking the 70 liter and 2 paddles over first. Next trip I take the 35 liter and canoe. The fishing rod is strapped into the canoe. If it is a short portage, then I can single portage it by carrying the 35 liter in front. |
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Jaywalker |
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TomT |
This September I'm changing it up and will carry a CCS Wanderer pack with canoe and use 2 other packs with reasonable weight to them. I will be triple portaging a 13 night trip at least until my food is low and I can fold up an ursack and possibly double portage the last 4-5 days. This way I can take some luxuries and not kill my hips with heavy loads. One tip is to load the pack with lighter things in the bottom and I put the food (bear vault and ursack) towards the top against my back. It makes for a more comfortable carry. |
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straighthairedcurly |
sunscreen camera raincoat water bottle small water filter lunch for the day sunglasses reading glasses map/compass The goal is to never have to open the bigger pack during the day. |
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TomT |
straighthairedcurly: " That’s a perfect analysis. |
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Wayouttroy |
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