What were your least useful pieces of gear: The ones you thought would be great BEFORE your thru hike, but turned out to be useless/junk/dead weight that you tossed or sent home?
Tyger
Least useful/worst pieces of gear?
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#2
I had some rain gear that lasted all of 100 yds when I started my thru-hike. It started to rain just as I walked through the arch at Amicalola so I stopped and got my rain jacket out and put it on. Within 100 yds I was not only wet but started to get hot. I knew that I couldn’t take the next 8.8 miles of this to the top of Springer so I ditched it and sent it home by the time I got to Neels gap. I chose to just get rained on the rest of the 750 miles I hiked and never had a problem.
sleepwalker
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#3
Hmm…I found that rainpants tend to be useless, I rarely bring them anywhere now…nor do I carry that heavy Whisperlite anymore, using instead a Pepsi-can stove…or a heavy water filter, I have an MSR one but use Polar Pure now…
At Neels, I was able to shed a little over 2 pounds of weight.
-xtn
airferret
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#4
Hmm…I found that rainpants tend to be useless, I rarely bring them anywhere now…nor do I carry that heavy Whisperlite anymore, using instead a Pepsi-can stove…or a heavy water filter, I have an MSR one but use Polar Pure now…
At Neels, I was able to shed a little over 2 pounds of weight.
-xtn
airferret
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#7
I carried rainpants for hundreds of miles and can only recall wearing them once or twice until I finally sent them home. I also carried Aquamira for a couple hundred miles and then emergency iodine tablets for the rest of the 1500 miles and used them once I think.
Tell it like it is
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#9
Got rid of the hanging candle lantern when I realized it was one-too-many light sources, and one that could potentially be dangerous if I let it burn while I fell asleep.
The propane-type stove–too bulky and heavy–has given way to the Esbit system.
Skyline