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. . . Packing, Carrying and (very importantly) Finding and Fixing Hiking Gear

Back packers have got the measure of packing their back packs down to a fine art . . . well, the experienced ones have anyway, and the organized ones, and some other hikers who are really quick learners.  Whenever you’re hiking you have a certain amount of equipment which you have to take with you . . . only problem is, you have to carry it in your backpack. Now then, it’s all well and good buying everything super small and super lightweight, but just imagine having everything thrown into the backpack all together . . . you’d never find anything useful again, which is why it’s very important to have storage sacks and containers to store your hiking gear inside before you store it all into your backpack.

Hiking Gear Storage Questions 

#1 How do you keep your hiking waterproofs handy, just in case there’s a sudden cloudburst . . . . sploosh, too late!

#2 How do you stop your toothpaste from squirting all over your special home made trail bars . . . yuk, too late!

#3 How do you find your stormproof matches . . . . you know they’re in there somewhere.

#4 Where’s the first aid kit . . . this blister is killing my toe.

#5 Help, my flashlight batteries have just died and it’s suddenly gone very dark  . . . where are the spares?

Well my hiking buddies, the answer to all of those questions is very simple . . . organization of your hiking gear storage.

Stuff Sacks

Stuff sacks to you too. Stuff sacks are a hikers best pal, don’t you just love ‘em. They’re lightweight and flexible, and it’s pretty amazing how much stuff you can stuff in a stuff sack before it bursts. Well, stuff sacks can help to solve a lot of hikers storage problems . . . ‘coz they make things really small but easy to fine. Why not have a “wet weather stuff sack”, color co-ordinated, so you know that if it looks like rain all you have to do is to fish out your yellow (or red, or green, or blue . . . the choice is yours) stuff sack and all of your waterproof hiking gear is right there, together, waiting for you as if by magic! It’s much easier than finding your waterproof poncho has somehow got tangled in with the guylines again!

Oh, so bikers use stuff sacks too . . . okay, that’s cool, us hikers can’t keep all the best ideas to ourselves!

Containers

Hikers need many different types of containers, to keep things from getting squished, to keep things from getting mixed up and to keep things from getting lost. I did mention earlier about the toothpaste on the trail bars . . . what a way to spoil a good hike and a waste of a good trail bar. It really isn’t like eating and cleaning your teeth at the same time, no matter how much your buddies try to cheer you up.

He’s got some great ideas and some great containers . . . one other good thing about peanut butter containers is that you have to eat the peanut butter first! He seems to have forgotten about that!