Back ups, Extras, Do you bring 'em?

[Grumpy Squatch]

Also carry a spare Sawyer Mini water filter. YOU NEVER KNOW.

At some point in my life I became willing to trade Giardia next week for carrying a few ounces less today. I could stand to lose some weight anyway... If my filter fails I figure I'll just filter water through a dirty sock and go back to boiling like we did in the old days.

[TominMN]

At some point in my life I became willing to trade Giardia next week for carrying a few ounces less today. I could stand to lose some weight anyway... If my filter fails I figure I'll just filter water through a dirty sock and go back to boiling like we did in the old days.

Giardiasis is not much fun. I'm pretty sure I'd rather boil than go through the antibiotic regimen yet one more time...

(Not so fond memories of the week after hiking Zion...)

[Canahang]

I carry about 50 feet of zing it for a bear bag anyways. In a really tight situation I could make it work for just about anything. I don't understand why people are carrying extra zing it AND 550. Seems like extra weight for nothing. Pack weight matters to me so I try to do without "extras". Or at least make sure anything I do bring is dual purpose

[Mykeelk]

Since it's off topic for this thread, I posted the car hanging results here

[Reubster24]

I always have 25' or so of paracord if i ever need to rig something up. Probably wouldn't be so great for hammock suspension but I would triple it up or something and make it work. Also depending on what kind of line failure you had you could probably rig something together with your broken pieces of line.

[oldpappy]

My RL is an amsteel whoopie which has plenty of extra length. If a suspension line broke i'd just use that and sleep without a ridgeline.

In addition to the Amsteel RL I carry 2 Amsteel continuous loops and an extra tree hugger - these last two are more as compensation for larger tree size rather than just extras.