Mine is my jungle bag. It’s been with me on almost all my adventures. Sleeping bag, blanket, poncho, it’s done it all.

>>2824731 (OP)
snugpak's the bees tits. My Snuggie underquilt has enriched my camping life and probably saved my life once or twice and I didn't really even know it

>>2824731 (OP)
I love my winnerwell tent stove
>large woodlander
I bring it with me every trip until it gets to heavy summer and hot at night
even if I don't need it for warmth at night it's so nice to wake up early and make coffee that I use it anyway until the hot weather forces me to stop

>>2824755
Best accessory for getting a fire going.
>>2824756
A wool blanket is an absolute must, $10-20, light weight, keeps your warm, keeps you dry, and outperforms a $200 sleeping bag.
>>2824757
I dont cook anymore, I rely solely on food pouches I can heat up with boiling water, or dehydrated food that needs hot water.

>hobo reel (daggerfish)
>wool blanket (arcturus)
>flute/harmonica

>>2824731 (OP)
Boonie hat

I guess this gits the thread, but is a bit of a request too. This is a cheap hat I loved for a bit until I lost it. Can anyone recognize the brand?

>>2824731 (OP)
One of those chinese repro canteen pouches with D-rings for a sling. Most of the time, I just carry that for daytrips. Takes a canteen, a sawyer for refilling, a pack of food (jerky, granola or whatever), a camping stove, a canteen cup w/ lid, and eating utensils. That pouch and the stuff in my pants pockets is enough to stay comfy for up to 36 hours, easily.

>jungle bag
I fucking hate that thing. The retarded "join your bag with that of your girlfriend (who absolutely exists...)" feature means that there's a gap at the bottom that's wide enough to stick your arm through. Defeats the entire purpose of having a "jungle bag" with netting, that's supposed to keep spiders, snakes and other creepers away from you. If you have to bring a tent anyways, you might as well just use a cheap chinesium summer bag.
If you want an actual jungle bag, either get the original UK issue one (which is cotton though, iirc), or the Carinthia Tropen.

>>2824731 (OP)
As an owner and frequent user of a snugpak jungle bag it's obvious you have never actually used that thing. It doesn't fit back in its stuff sack if you did.

>>2824832
you're a complete retard if you can stuff that thing back into it's sack. ive cinched mine down like this for years as well and it still gets smaller because there's so much room

my cum socket

>>2824805
Looks exactly like mine except mine is green. They're sold under about 50 different brands with stupid names.

>>2824731 (OP)
How small is the jungle bag once everything is stuffed in? Would it be small enough to carry in something like a larger Fanny pack instead of a backpack?

Umbrella. I’ve been taking one on every hike for around 20 years. It started with the GoLite Chrome Dome, which is still produced under various names.

>actually waterproof and 100% vented
>great for rain in warmer temps
>only option for hot, rainy days
>best shade, hands down
>can knock down spider webs early in the morning
>extra rain protection for some shelters
>can squat behind it when shitting
>wind barrier for stoves

Its best uses are diametric opposites; rain and sun. And it’s best suited for when you experience both at the same time (devil’s beating his wife).

Those bullshit off and on showers where it alternates between sort of raining, kinda, but not really, then it stops but you know it’s gonna start again, but doesn’t, until it does… yeah, fuck a rain jacket in that shit.

Surprisingly good in a hard downpour. Obviously conditions dictate what’s best.

That’s 5 mile road walk turned out to be a treeless death march, but the umbrella made it tolerable.

But the best part is snt how it performs, but how cozy it is. You know how when you’re under a tarp in the rain, and it’s pattering down, and falling all around you, and you’re just super comfy in your own little dry space? It’s like you’re in the rain and outside, but tecknickally and acktchually NOT in the rain. You get that same comfy coziness while walking.

Pic was years ago, during a moderate rain storm that alternated between light and moderate with bretty good wind.

>>2825018
>>2824951
this is about as small as it gets, i'd say any bag you could fit a football into you could make it work

>>2825018
If you actually use it it fits very nicely into a small sea to summit stuff sack. OP obviously has never touched grass in his life and it's hilarious that he just compressed his brand new sleeping bag more to prove me wrong. It's a great warm weather sleeping bag and OP is a giant faggot.

>>2824731 (OP)
Infinite water perk.

>>2824755
Having a large flat piece of stiff plastic, like the backframe of an internal-frame pack, makes a better fan bellows than these hypoxia inducing things.

>>2825018
Yeah, should work. In the sack, it can be compressed to the size of a beer mug. I'd stuff it in without the stuff sack, though, so it can fill the space better.

Still a shitty sleeping bag, however.

For me, it's:
>Poncho
Serves as an adequate shelter, rain layer, pack cover, hammock, chair, and general hobo sack. Small enough to bring just about anywhere and I use it all the time.
>Heavy wool shirt jacket
Thick, lined wool shirt/jacket. Probably the warmest thing I own. I've never been cold in it.
>Headlamp
Self explanatory. I have a black diamond and a petzl, but I'm going to huy another princeton tec with a sliding red filter so I don't accidentally blind myself when I get up to piss
>Canteen cups that fit my nalgene
I have two that almost perfectly encase my nalgene so I can have two cups (one to cook with and one to eat out of, or one to boil water in, or whatever) that don't take up any extra space
>Evasion chart
Tyvek map with descriptions and pictures of local flora and fauna, land navigation, first aid, and other stuff. It's like 4'x5' and just having a big ass piece of tyvek is really nice to use as a clean spot.
>Knife/leatherman
I've had an Esee 4 for like 5 years and I love it. I have a leatherman wave that also gets a ton of use all the time.

But really my favorite things are my poncho and my wool shirt.

>>2824755
Is that really a tube for blowing air a fire? This is gear-tardation. Is not having to put your face a few inches closer to the fire really worth carrying this around? I can't see this being a net positive unless you have lungs of a 70 year old chronic smoker and even then you could just stick a straw in your bag that occupies a tiny fraction of the space.

>>2824758
>A wool blanket is an absolute must, $10-20, light weight, keeps your warm, keeps you dry, and outperforms a $200 sleeping bag.

Fell off the rails there. A wool blanket can keep you warm and dry but it doesn't out perform a $200 sleeping bag. They're heavy, don't stow well, and aren't comfortable for sleeping. It's a great car camping accessory you leave in there all the time because of the other 2 valid points Anon made.

>>2824733
>bees tits
I say this too, are you stalking me?

>>2824731 (OP)
A good freshly sharpened long blade hatchet with a wood handle is a camping essential. Splits wood, chops brush, cracks bear skulls, makes you feel badass.

>>2824755
>>2827129
It's gay and retarded, but I used someone else's once and it's way nicer than it should be. It's a fucking extendable tube. It has no business being cool. But it's a baller move to be able to point that bitch right at a coal and hit it with a lungful of air and get it burning. However, since I'm not a homosexual, I just do picrel

>>2827131
Nothing < woobie < wool blanket <<<<< sleeping bag, wool blanket is nice to have in the car but isn't worth packing in

>>2827141
>Unbreakable
Challenge accepted.

>>2824733
you picked it up from me anon

>>2824832
>>2824951
Guides stuff the sack directly into the backpack withou compression bag, that way it conforms to whatever space is available most efficiently.

>>2827141
>>2827269
i had one of these tucked away in my drawer for 2 years with one egg inside
never broke the egg and im still wondering what it would have smelled and looked like

>>2827380
>reading a guide for a glorified blanket

>>2827383
joking aside we used to do that all the time in the army
much easier and faster to just stuff the bag in there as is, sure it was more prone to water but there was no tetris involved

>>2825029
umbrellas are extremely underrated

>>2827141

>>2827131
it outperforms a $200 sleeping bag by doing the same job while being a tenth of the price.
wool is not that heavy. two wool blankets weight 3lb while a delicate, ultra light $400+ sleeping bag is anywhere from 1-2lb
and they stow very well in a vacuum bag.
wool is only not comfortable if you are a little bitch.

i'm pretty keen on this cross-body bag. last time i was in europe, everyone had one while my backpack was mostly empty. i've seen em around boston too. more generally, i like things like ditty cubes and compression sacks that make packing easier regardless of whether i'm going /out/ or just going to some city-sized cuck pod like berlin. the only time i ever check luggage is if i know i'm gonna be importing large amounts of strange alcohol like pioulnowka

>>2827752
derp, this is the exact bag. weighs almost nothing (2 oz) and fits the euro "you vill own nothing" aesthetic where you only need a phone, wallet, and to not get your shit stolen

>>2827752
Cross-body bags are for insecure homos who are too scared to wear them around the waist, where they belong.

>>2827754
you can shorten the strap to a fanny pack but yes i agree they are kinda faggy

>>2824731 (OP)
>>2824733
has Snugpak quality gone down since 2018?
thoughts?

>>2827128
What brand is the shirt?

>>2827753
Why are you wearing a fupa pack

>>2829480
Would be surprised if anybody knows. I doubt there's many people retarded enough to buy from them twice...
The one thing I have from them, a jungle bag, is mid-tier in quality (thin, flimsy construction, zippers that lock closed and need to be opened carefully, rather than the "rip open" zippers carinthia for example has), and absolute trash in design. Think I posted it itt before, they left way too much space in between the zippers, making it useless as an actual jungle bag.

>>2827609
Do people really use a single wool blanket down to freezing? How much does that particular bag weigh? How well can it pack down, really?
>vacuum bag
wut?

>>2829682
i wear it across my chest like a culturally enriched european

Nods

>>2829731
Like a broccoli head, you mean.

>>2827463
They’re only underrated by terminally online LARP fags and anyone heavily influenced by marketing. People in the know use them, or at least see their use cases.

I’d say a solid 30% of PCT hikers are using them, and it’s probably the majority of people doing long distance trails in the Southwest. Basically anything west of the continental divide because a lot of hiking trails are so exposed it makes sense for the sun protection.

On the East coast, more people are using them for rain protection than ever before. It just makes sense (depending on the time of year).

>>2829480
I bought my under quilt from them in like 2014 and it's been great, but haven't had the need to buy anything more

>>2829743
fr no cap o algo, no swea'y back is bussin for my rizz. i live in the suburbs so it's good for both the city and camping.

>>2829750
an umbrella seems like a godsend for weeklong + trips. i'm usually doing 1-4 night trips and prefer to become amphibious. everything that needs to be dry is protected / organized with dyneema, or made of silnylon, and the backpack itself is raw nylon. clothes are wool and polyester. i did this biking in the city, wearing wool jerseys and having fresh clothes for work let me bike through any amount of rain with little discomfort. they also don't carry umbrellas in iceland.

>>2825029
any recs for umbrellas? The umbrella I have I got from a konbini in Japan. It's lasted well but is not good in wind and inverts.

>>2829728
Single probably not, that's why I said two wool blankets weight 3lb together.
yes vacuum bag, pic related is 3 large wool blankets in one.

>>2830040
redpill me on vacuum-sealing wool. can i reuse the bags and have my trunk of spare blankets be stored in vacuum bags until needed? some of them are wool and others are handmade family quilts that are 100+ years old by this point. will storing blankets this way burn permanent crease damage into the fabrics?

>>2830050
I never permanently store anything in vacuum bags, I only use them when I need to shrink something down to fit. Pillows, and throws shrink very well.
I also havnt ran into vacuum bags that hold vacuum for more than a week. they are very delicate and rip easily. i consider them one time use.
maybe there are tougher bags on the market for long term storage.
as far as perma wrinkles, i doubt it. no different than it being folded and weighted down.
you should be more concerned trapping something else with them like a dead bug or something like a stick of gum that will absolutely leak out and stain everything.
if you carefully fold or roll the quilt, it'll be fine. you dont have top suck all the air out either.

>>2827083
youre not supposed to inhale through them lmao

>>2827129
>>2827083
LARPfags don’t understand that some things are just silly and for fun.

>>2830040
>wool blankets pack really small when you vacuum seal them
Anon, when we talk about bulk or how small things can compress, we’re talking about how they fit into a backpack, not a linen closet. Wool blankets do not compress as small as down quilts of the same temperature rating.

>>2829728
>Do people really use a single wool blanket down to freezing?
Yeah, when you're spending most of the day without moving (riding a horse, sitting in a hunting blind etc), it's possible. In that case, if you sleep in your clothes, the blanket just needs to compensate the temperature difference between being awake and being asleep.
However, if you're moving a lot (hiking cross country with a heavy pack), one blanket isn#t going to be enough. Even worse when your clothes are wet and you want to dry them over night - sleeping naked in the house at 16-18°C in winter, I use 2-3 wool blankets, for example.

>>2830157
You don’t bring a dedicated set of sleep hiking pajamas? Come on, man.

Edit: captcha predicted this

>Wool mesh underwear
Terribly indecent, amazingly comfortable in both cold and warm weather. Vents heat great when I'm moving, holds heat just fine when used as an under layer.

>Light rain gear
Mostly because I associated rain gear with the heavy oilskins I have at work. It was eye-opening that I could wear such a light and thin layer and still stay dry.

>MSR Windburner
Just amazingly handy to bring along to boil water for freeze-dried meals, oats, or warm drinks.

>Lightly insulated Jerven Hunter bag
Very much also a nice-to-have thing. Used it while posting up and waiting for some geese late one night. Got so warm and comfy that I fell asleep. Only woke up when another hunter walked past me without noticing me. He didn't think it was very funny when what he thought was a rock stood up behind him and said "boo".
Works alright as a sleeping bag, more than fair as a poncho in rain, and great as a wind sack or blanket. Haven't tried using it as a tarp, but probably works just fine like that too.
Any trip that warrants bringing a backpack, I'll bring it, and I always keep it in my car if I'm driving far in winter.

>>2827128
>Headlamp
Easily one of the most useful things I've bought too, and regularly use even if I'm not going very far out. I have a Black Diamond spot 400. I specifically wanted a light one without an overhead band, since I use it through winter and it would get in the way of the fur on my warmest hat. Oh, and it was cheap on sale.
The red light is super handy for tent use, getting up to piss, or for extra visibility in winter when I'm walking the dog along the road shoulder in the dark season.

>>2830121
I was talking about fitting them in a backpack.
All fabric items are at least 50% air by volume. That's how insulation works.
Wool compresses quite well. Sure, not as well as quilt.
Still not going to spend $200+ on a sleeping back

>>2830196
Dude, I don't even bring a blanket. Or a sleeping bag. Just plop my back against a tree, cover myself with a poncho if it looks like rain, and go to sleep knowing full well I'll wake up from the cold an hour or two later. Then hike another hour, and repeat.
It's like that memey "superman cycle" sleep system, except based.

>>2830246
you need meds
like, all the meds. all of them

>>2824756
This. Only mine is yellow and has holes.

>>2824731 (OP)
A wool sweater and life straw

>>2830243
How do you vacuum pack them the second time?

>>2830317
You get the bags that come with a hand vacuum pump. its super lightweight.
you can also squeeze about 85% of the air out of the bag yourself, you wont get that super slim look, but it will compress down a decent amount.
you should always prep for the larger bag size incase something happens.
i will warn you that these bags are delicate and sometimes they will not hold vacuum the 2nd time. I found that you need to open them carefully and immediately close the seal back and put them away. the lightest contamination on the seal and they will not work again. I do bring a backup bag just incase.

>>2830247
>t. jealous summerchild
Grow some chest hair, anon. It helps with insulation.

Seriously though, sleeping cold is actually pretty comfy, as long as you're cold on both sides. Only being cold on one side (such a sleeping on a bed with no blanket) fucking sucks.

>>2825029
a lot of folks don't realize they are also great for providing a dry space to eat while on the trail in the rain. on a long hike eating needs to happen.

>>2830066
thanks, looks like a no go:
https://www.moth-prevention.com/blogs/the-art-of-prevention/do-vacuum-seal-storage-bags-ruin-clothes

>>2830481
sure, obviously dont vacuum seal leather and cashmere.
you dont need to fully vacuum it, you can squeeze the bag and get a lot of air out of it without compressing the item.
I was recently at a estate sale and bought 3 large, hand made alpaca wool afghans that were stored in a partial vacuum sealed bags for years. they unfolded nicely.

I dont care about a $10 wool blanket tho, compress the shit out of it.