What's your favorite piece of gear?

[flashinglights]

sealing hoodie pockets with zippers is a great idea! I'm bringing thread and a sewing kit on the road this year.

 

[Mouse]

I always had the issue that I'd get kicked down nice pull-over carhart hoodies from my mom because she did the carhart ordering for the farm store she worked for. I hate pull-overs though because I wear glasses and it's a pain in the ass. So, I'd cut zippers off of jackets, split the hoodie in the front, make it a zip hoodie and put zippers on the pockets to keep my cell, smokes, and other random crap handy and secure.

 

[Beegod Santana]

Other than food all I really carry is my sleeping bag, tarp, hoodie and my msr water purifier. All of which I'd say are my favorite piece of gear depending on where I am and what kinda day I'm having.

 

[GutterGrayse]

Mine is also my sleeping bag. It's a Eureka! Women's Casper +15degrees. It scrunches down to about a 6"x9"x6" size and is only two lbs. A good half of my travels are in the northern states and it's never let me down to be at least comfortable, if not toasty.

 

[drun_ken]

Deffinatly my fanny pack...

fanny packs are not nor will ever be a good thing...please burn the ones ya have and sew a god damn cargo pocket on yer pants...and calling em a chaos pack does not make them an allright thing...shit carry a fukin side bag already....fukin kids taday...

 

[drun_ken]

zippers+pockets+dental floss=no fukin reason fer a fukin fanny pack...

 

[dirty_rotten_squatter]

my pack...it holds my life pretty much

 

[farmer john]

my boots theyre always there for me

 

[travelingfisher]

A sharpie!
I can start my own business for a dollar and work wherever I chose.

 

[Gypsybones]

my camera! its what I love and its always around me, its my art.

 

[Wolfeyes]

Gretchen, my little no name 15" machete I picked up at a yard sale a few years back. Fits in my big bag, stays fairly sharp, takes a beating without being too heavy.

Still want to get a Cold Steel one day....

 

[Blackout]

P 38 can opener

 

[boucaneer]

yeah those p38 can openers are neat. i lost a p51 years back and all i can find are the rubbish highlander ones that rattle and bend.

currantly my favourate item is my french naval gortex foul weather jacket worn over a down filled puffer jacket, realy warm and waterproof. we have had ten days of snow here and i am still toasty.

other than that, it's my bed roll, gortex bivi,two vangos sleeping bags and a down army one, thermarest compact air mattress and mozzy net.

it's freezing here, still compared to canada it probally is half tropical.

oh yeah, and my casio tide calculation watch.

 

[tallhorseman]

I'm with you on that one...camera is king...my speed-roller is second.

 

[Deleted member 20]

I got a p38, on a carabiner with a knife,spoon,fork thing you might find in the cub scouts, & a church key(old school bottle opener)& a water spiggot key that works on some, commercial spiggots located alongside buildings. Those & my rail atlas(though outdated nice to have.

 

[oldmanLee]

"in town",$50 in small bills and 5 silver dollars.In the back country,my Hudson's Bay blanket.Everywhere,a stout single edge knife with about a hundred feet of cord wrapping the grip area.

 

[xmaggotx]

toothbrush.

 

[Bikesntapes]

Practically speaking, my multi tool. But nothing gives me more comfort than my copy of the H.L. Mencken Chrestomathy. Reading his essays make me feel justified in my cynicism.

 

[Monkeywrench]

1. North Face 0 degree sleeping bag. Weighs a good bit, but keeps me ALIVE and warm.
2. SOG Navy Seal fixed-blade knife. Everything else is replaceable and/or I can deal.

 

[smellyskelly]

tooth paste.