A Tale of Two Bothies - Gear List
The following is the gearlist for this trip. The pack is the Montane Ultra Tour 40, a brilliant larger capacity running pack but with one significant flaw; fluid carrying. The contoured, plastic hard bottles are the maximum size that will fit in the shoulder strap mesh pockets and the 750ml softflask with filter is to top up when required and to hydrate overnight. The sleeping bag this time is lighter as temperatures are not forecasted to drop below zero and I will be sleeping indoors. There are a couple of extras as this is a bothy trip. Firstly, a LED light in addition to a contingency headtorch. Secondly, a couple of tealights and a BIC mini lighter for a secondary indoor lighting option.
- Montane Ultra Tour 40 backpack
- 2 x 300ml hard bottles
- Pack cover
- Groundsheet
- Rab Mythic Ultra 360 sleeping bag in its own drybag.
- 15L drybag to contain sleeping bag, liner and pillow
- Nemo Tensor Extreme sleeping mat
- Silk sleeping bag liner
- Inflatable pillow
- 3L compression drybag containing Montane Ultra Pull-On, OMM Core tights & OMM Core socks
- Flextail Zero air pump
- Montane Phase Lite waterproof jacket
- Plastic mini tripod
- Safety glow stick
- First aid kit including Petzl E-lite & Silva compass
- Petzl Bindi headtorch
- Sea to Summit drying line
- SOL emergency bivy bag
- 5,000mah powerbank & 3-in-1 charging cable
- Dyneema pouch (wallet)
- Garmin 67i handheld satellite device with InReach subscription
- Headphones
- Montane Prism hat
- Exped padded bag for Garmin & other electronics etc
- Mini BIC lighter and tealights x 2
- Hydrapak 750ml softflask with Hydrapak filter
- Food bag ( see below for contents )
- Mobile phone
My running clothing is entirely separate to everything listed above.
Food, as pictured, although some was transferred from original packaging into zip lock bags before the final packing stage. I take a larger zip lock bag (for leakage) for waste.
The pack had plenty of capacity left but I would rather have ease of packing and compress the pack down than try and ram gear into a smaller pack.
Total pack weight, including 600ml of water, gels and some additional running calories for Day 1 only – 6.2kg.
