Your Best Gear - 2010

**Bubba** · 12-03-2010, 10:39

Great thread with a lot of great gear to check out. My three are:

The Dutch Clips and Dutch Biners - Certainly they are a blessing for the less weight and less bulk crowd but I appreciate these simple, small and useful suspension items as being jsut plain cool.

BRKT knives - Discovered the convex grind this year and I love the ease of sharpening and the great edge retention. I have a Bravo 1, an Aurora and a model from a limited batch made for a Hiking and Camping Forum. They have a nice outdoors look to them and coupled with a nice leather sheath they feel great riding on my belt.

The parachute nylon hammock - Discovered hammocking and hammock camping this year and my first hammock was an ENO DN. I love Warbonnet but I still love parachute nylon. I had only ever tried rope hammocks and cheap bridge hammocks in the past so when I first got the ENO it was awesome. I love the way it wraps around me when laying is different positions and they are so portable that it makes you want to go outside and use them. It has really reignited my love for the outdoors.

**Shane** · 12-03-2010, 20:56

My three are...

Gregory Z55. Love the suspension on this pack.

Overstuffed incubator= back to the womb at 13 degrees

Nacrabiners

S

**aBRG2far** · 12-04-2010, 09:32

1) Mt Wash 4 underquilt- mmmmmmmmmm toastie!

2) Jetboil Fash- hot water in seconds

3) Yard sale kayak for $50 and doing a class 2 on the first time out ever and not rolling over priceless!

**cataraftgirl** · 12-04-2010, 09:51

Sweet picture.
Is there a kayak in there somewhere??????
Getting swallowed by a big wave is the most fun ever, especially if you stay in your boat.
All these gear lists make me want to shop for more stuff.
KJ

**Redoleary** · 12-04-2010, 10:48

My caveman wristees.

Vittles Vault used for food on canoe trips.

Kodak Playsport video camera. (not technically backpacking gear, but I bought it to document trips)

**koaloha05** · 12-04-2010, 13:13

1. WB Traveler 1.1 sl: As comfortable as the BB, less $s, more compact & lighter even with the DIY tulle bug sock.

2. HG SummerBurrow: Warmth for this cold sleeper with proper uq below the spec rating. High quality design & construction resulting in a compact, light, functional and probably durable product. Only oops was at 5'4" I needed to order a shorter custom version.

3. PacerPoles: Gone from not liking trekking poles to "don't leave home without them". They are almost 2x the weight of my diy cf poles, but the swing weight feels similar. It's the grips that make these "magic" poles. Cadence is more consistent and higher resulting in more ground covered but with no real feeling of additional energy expended. Plus my hands don't get that sleepy feeling that sometimes occurs when hiking with a pack.

**Indy** · 12-04-2010, 16:41

I would say

My dyi hammock (special to me cause me wife made it for me on my birthday)
Chinook tarp very impresses grate price too http://www.greatadventure.ca/00cart/...idproduct=2113
bushwacker stove .

close 3rd place is my Buck vantage .

**Miguel** · 12-04-2010, 19:06

Oh boy....researching eveyone's favorites is going to keep me busy for at least a week....maybe longer! This is a VERY useful thread!

Mine are in no particular order..

1. Western Mountaineering 30 degree Megalite sleeping bag. One of their zero degree bags probably will make my 2011 list. Their stuff wreaks of quality.

2. Aarn Naural Balance backpack. Quite simply the most comfortable pack I've ever worn.

3. My new WBBB 1.0 Double. Nothing I can add to what's already been said about that one.. It'll be my go to summer....maybe three season hammock.

**SuperTramp** · 12-04-2010, 19:37

hmmm-been through alot of gear this year and also got rid of alot so here is my list 1) GrizzBridge hammock -finally figured out how to get the right hang consistantly without the tippiness and am totally sold on this one
2)Gransfors Bruks Scandenavian Axe -have a real hard time leaving it home,i may trade off food in order to carry
3)Sony Handycam - just having a hoot with this at the expense of everyone elses time
honourable mentions to - not 1 but 3 different new Mora knives
-my Tenkara Ayu flyrod
-HF Buff
-Strikeforce Firesteel
-Princeton Tec Pulsar microlights
- i better stop there before my wife looks over here

**BLUEFIN 774** · 12-04-2010, 20:42

My top three gear choices for the past year would be :

1. Three Season Crowsnest Underquilt from www.hammockgear.com It is so comfortable and light weight and easy to setup and use.

2. Whoopieslings from www.whoopieslings.com Make my setup faster and easier. I would encourage anyone to try these.

3. Hammock bag from http://arrowheadequipment.webs.com/ It makes it easy to stow my hammock and it stays on the hammock at all times.

I have one other piece of gear to "test" soon. I purchased a Kodak Playsport video/still photo camera recently. I will use it on my trips. It is small, light and waterproof.