Whether you’re heading out for a multi-day hike in the desert, the mountains, or somewhere beautifully in-between, here’s what I actually carry with me. This isn’t a “here’s what you should pack” list—it’s a “here’s what I do pack” list, with all the nitty-gritty included. Think of it like a peek inside my pack on trail day one.
In our lives I am sure we all have scribbled paper to pen and wrote a list, a bucket list, of everything we wished for our grand life. When I was 17 years old, about to finish high school, I picked up a pen and wrote a list of 84 things I wished to do before I died. For some reason at the age of 17 years old I thought life was incredibly short and wanted to do as much as I could as quickly as I could. As the years have gone on I have slowed down a bit and the things on this list is not as important to me as they once were.