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Backpacker's Ultimate Backpacking Checklist: Food and Snacks

This checklist provides the essential gear for backpacking trips. It includes sections for a backpack, shelter equipment, sleep system, food and snacks, water storage and filtration, stove and cookware, apparel, footwear, hygiene items, electronics, navigation tools, and emergency supplies. The checklist recommends bringing a 50-80 liter backpack, tent or tarp, sleeping bag rated for 15-30 degrees Fahrenheit, at least two pairs of socks and underwear, hiking shoes, first aid kit, maps, and enough food and water for each day on the trail.

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Backpacker's Ultimate Backpacking Checklist: Food and Snacks

This checklist provides the essential gear for backpacking trips. It includes sections for a backpack, shelter equipment, sleep system, food and snacks, water storage and filtration, stove and cookware, apparel, footwear, hygiene items, electronics, navigation tools, and emergency supplies. The checklist recommends bringing a 50-80 liter backpack, tent or tarp, sleeping bag rated for 15-30 degrees Fahrenheit, at least two pairs of socks and underwear, hiking shoes, first aid kit, maps, and enough food and water for each day on the trail.

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Backpacker’s Ultimate
Backpacking Checklist Food and Snacks
- Enough food for each day of your trip
based on your caloric needs, plus an extra
Backpack and Storage
day’s worth of food in case of emergency
- Typically a 50- to 80-liter backpack
- Snacks to stave off hunger and increase
- Rain cover or waterproof pack liner
your caloric intake while you hike
- Waterproof compression sacks and
- Hydration/electrolyte powder or tabs
storage sacks (optional)
(optional)
- Bear canister (if required), Ursack-type
Shelter
bag, or 50 feet of nylon cord and a
- Tent, tarp, bivy, or hammock
carabiner for a bear hang if you’re in bear
- Rainfly
country
- Poles
- Stakes
Apparel (no cotton)
- Trekking poles (optional, can be used to
- At least two pairs of socks
pitch certain shelters)
- At least two pairs of underwear
- Groundsheet (optional)
- Shorts, pants, or other bottoms such as
skirt or kilt
Sleep System
- T-shirt
- Sleeping bag or quilt (15°F to 30°F comfort
- Long-sleeve shirt (for insects and sun
rating)
protection)
- Sleeping pad (foam, self-inflating, or
- Insulating midlayer, such as a fleece
inflatable with an R-Value of 2 or higher)
- Packable down jacket
- Camping pillow (optional)
- Hardshell jacket or rain poncho
- Warm hat or beanie
Water Storage and Filtration
- Sun hat
- Water bottle and/or water reservoir
- Sunglasses
- Purification system (squeeze, pump,
- Top and bottom baselayers (optional)
gravity, UV, or press)
- Light gloves or liners (optional)
- Backup filtration system (chemical
- Rain pants (optional)
purification tabs, drops, or small secondary
filter)
Footwear
- Hiking boots, hiking shoes, trail running
Stove and Cookware
shoes, or hiking sandals
- Stove (canister, liquid fuel, or alternative
- Camp shoes or sandals (optional)
style)
- Gaiters for snow/scree (optional)
- Fuel (isobutane-propane canisters, liquid
fuel, or alternative fuel)
Personal Hygiene
- Lighter or waterproof matches
- Trowel
- Pots if not integrated into stove system
- Toilet paper
- Utensils
- Hand sanitizer
- Cleaning rag or mini sponge
- Sunscreen and SPF lip balm
- Bug repellent
- Toothbrush, toothpaste, floss
- WAG bag (if required)
- Menstrual products and pack-out bags (if
not using a menstrual cup)
- Female urination device (optional)
- Pee rag (optional)

Electronics
- Power bank and/or solar charger (optional)
with charging cables
- Headlamp with extra set of lithium
batteries
- Satellite messenger or PLB (optional)

Navigation
- Map, compass, and the knowledge to use
both
- Gps device (optional)
- Navigation app, like Gaia GPS (optional)

Repair and Emergency


- First aid kit
- Prescription medication
- Extra moleskin
- Knife or multitool
- Bear spray (in Grizzly country)
- Duct tape
- Sleeping pad patch kit
- Waterproof matches/ firestarter

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