Flat Fare Fastpack - Gear List
Flat Fare Fastpack – Dalwhinnie to Rannoch, 8/9 February 2025
The following is the gearlist for this trip. I might not do this for every fastpack that I report on, but I thought it might be useful on this occasion at least. As I have said in my fastpacking guide, I rarely heat food or drinks on a single night trip. Also, this was most definitely a winter trip into a fairly remote area in sub-zero temperatures so no shortage of kit for the conditions and for safety. From the photo, you can see how much of the overall bulk comes from just the bivy, sleeping bag and sleeping mat.
- Instinct ALPI 40 backpack
- 2 x Salomon softflasks with 1 x softflask filter
- Groundsheet
- Outdoor Research Alpine Ascentshell Bivy
- Thermarest Questar -18C down sleeping bag, compressed in a Sea to Summit eVent compression bag.
- Nemo Tensor Extreme sleeping mat
- Silk sleeping bag liner
- Inflatable pillow
- 35L drybag
- 3L compression drybag containing Montbell Superior down T-shirt & OMM Core socks
- Flextail Zero air pump
- Dynafit 3L Ultralight waterproof smock
- Wipes
- Plastic mini tripod
- Safety glow stick
- First aid kit including Petzl E-lite & Silva compass
- Petzl RL Swift headtorch & spare battery
- 10,000mah powerbank & 3-in-1 charging cable
- Garmin 67i handheld satellite device with InReach subscription
- Exped padded bag for Garmin & powerbank
- Titanium long spoon
- Food bag ( see below for contents )
- Mobile phone
My running clothing is entirely separate to everything listed above but will all be worn both running and overnight.
Food, as pictured, although some was transferred from original packaging into ziplock bags before the final packing stage. I take a larger ziplock bag (for leakage) for waste.
Total pack weight, including 1,000ml of water, gels and some additional running calories for Day 1 only – 8.4kg.
