The setup with shelf outside in nature with everything nicely laid out was excellent. Also noticed the fun quilt bag toss cut to quilt being out of bag.
Pretty much covered it all . . . This was an extra low summer rain year. There were monsoons but this year they just produced lighting and fires. Some years it rains a lot. Last year I waited three days in Mammoth for some big hail storms to blow through. It rained a little this year in Tahoe but it ended up going over to Yellowstone where it created those all time record floods. Mountain weather is unpredictable. I'm with you on the down jacket, I dont own one, the fleece and a wind jacket is enough. I have not been in any big snow other than San Jacinto and I was good with just the fleece and no down jacket or thermals. My feet froze one day though. I got unlucky with deep wet snow for 6 hrs. The morning was like walking in a Christmas Card scene and then it all melted . . .
The weather is definitely unpredictable isn't it, I think we definitely got lucky this year (besides the super long heat wave through the middle of the hike). Keeping feet warm is a hard one to solve, usually I just keep on pushing until my feet warm up
You'll get there! I feel like it takes going on a big thru hike to really see the benefits! If I was close to home I'd still take my little stove, especially in the Winter
Enjoyed seeing all your gear. Nice setup. Can't believe those shorts used to be white! I appreciate you explaining the "why" of each piece of gear. I'll take your word for it on cold soaking.
No worries mate, me to regarding the shorts... they were brown pretty quickly haha but they almost felt like a trophy for all the miles I had travelled. Definitely give cold soaking a go on longer trips, it's a breeze!
Thanks, very well presented overview. I‘m looking at getting a EE Revelation as well, but my fears of being cold made me consider the -12°C version. Was -6°C warm enough in the Sierras? Thanks!
It definitely was for me and I even cowboy camped at forester pass, we actually cowboy camped pretty much every night in the Sierra and I was fine, you could get a colder year so it’s hard to gauge but for me the -6 was heaps
Great information. I’m in the camp of “no way I’m cold soaking”. If you say it was working, I’ll look at making the switch. You didn’t need any micro spikes for the snowy areas?
Always love good gear overviews. I bet if there were 1000 of those Exped mattresses on trail some would be trying to find a leak in a few of them. What do you think?
Yeah that’s probably a good point! I can only speak from experience from myself and a few friends that have them and none of us have had any issues ever but I honestly mean it when I say every single person I know on trail who had one of those famous yellow inflatables had problems
@@JackScottkeogh Probably cause the yellow baffles go side to side, not up and down. Just guessing though. As a late gen xer 77, when ever we went camping in the 80s, sleeping on exped style, beach floaty mats. Never ever, ever again. Ill burn the lot of them and sleep in the dirt.
Jack, can you talk about the cameras you used to film the documentary? It looked like a Sony A7 series camera, but I was wonder what else you used. Great Video!
I started on April 26th mate! I would probably pack the same if I started earlier or later, knowing how easy it is to ditch stuff and get stuff back to you, I would still just take my fleece, rain jacket and hiking shirt, especially for the desert
Thank you for sharing the list, may I wonder how many literes you would still have left for the food, or what would be your feeling on what would be the max days of food you will be able to add on?
G'day mate! To be honest I am not sure how many litres my food took up but i'd say I usually carried about 3-4 days worth on average which would be a bit smaller than a shoe box (at most). Our longest food carry was about 6-7 days which was pretty damn heavy but it gets lighter pretty quickly.
No worries mate! I mainly cold soaked Knorr's Sides rice and cous cous, they're the easiest things for sure, the Knorr's sides rice takes about an hour and a half and cous cous is only about 15-20 minutes but it doesn't matter how early you put it on really
A few hear and there! I'd often hear 'I met another aussie a couple of days ago' though! It was a pretty big year for international hikers I think as it was the first hiking season that we were allowed overseas
I don't sorry, I will be getting a new 35L pack shortly so I will do one once I get that! I pack my bag the same way Darwin does though so if you search his videos, that will be a great help!
Oi Oi Oi! Hey mate, loved the vid - did you buy the gear in-country, or bring it in from Oz? Doing the PCT next year and don't know whether I'd be better off importing it or buying it when I'm over there...
G'day mate! I got most of the stuff while I was still in OZ but it would make sense to get some over there, like if you buy a zpacks tent and bits and pieces you're going to get hit with important tax which will be like an extra $300 odd. Most of the other stuff I just got here or already had but it's also so easy to get stuff on trail, I'd order stuff to the next town often so I wouldn't stress too much
I would buy over there as you will get wrecked on import tax if the customs dude notices. Although if you know anyone in the states get it shipped to them, they rough it up a little, take price tags and stuff sacks out and mail to you in a big messy box labeled as "camping gear" ;)
Watch the video and guess. It was a LOT warmer than when I started which was April 13. It was freezing in the mornings and the grass near Warner Springs was still a little green for me.
G'day Andy, I started on April 26th and finished on August 25th so 4 months in total. You get cold mornings pretty much the whole trail but it doesn't take long to warm up, even when i was cowboy camping at Forester pass it was fine. I also made a film on my whole trip you can see on my channel
Hey Jack, what were the average night time temperatures for the first 700 miles? I've got all the gear, I want to be comfortable but I don't want to be loaded with items I will hardly use, just as you pointed out there. A bounce box sounds like a terrific idea!
G'day mate! I cant remember exactly but I'd say maybe around 10 degrees C or around 50 F, I cowboy camped pretty much every single night of the desert and never got cold, even when you wake up to an icy sleeping bag
The setup with shelf outside in nature with everything nicely laid out was excellent. Also noticed the fun quilt bag toss cut to quilt being out of bag.
Glad you enjoyed!
Thank you for doing something different with the display of your gear. Nice backdrop. Congrats on your hike.
Thanks! Hopefully it was somewhat helpful
Incredible pack!!
Pretty much covered it all . . . This was an extra low summer rain year. There were monsoons but this year they just produced lighting and fires. Some years it rains a lot. Last year I waited three days in Mammoth for some big hail storms to blow through. It rained a little this year in Tahoe but it ended up going over to Yellowstone where it created those all time record floods. Mountain weather is unpredictable. I'm with you on the down jacket, I dont own one, the fleece and a wind jacket is enough. I have not been in any big snow other than San Jacinto and I was good with just the fleece and no down jacket or thermals. My feet froze one day though. I got unlucky with deep wet snow for 6 hrs. The morning was like walking in a Christmas Card scene and then it all melted . . .
The weather is definitely unpredictable isn't it, I think we definitely got lucky this year (besides the super long heat wave through the middle of the hike). Keeping feet warm is a hard one to solve, usually I just keep on pushing until my feet warm up
I got so much good information from this review. Thank you, Jack! Good job!
No worries mate! Glad it was helpful
Wild to see the property again been years 🤣
Freakishly similar set up as mine for the HexaTrek. Haven’t quite committed to cold soaking though
Oh really? Any differences? It's great, you'll love it! I feel like its a super long thru hike thing though
Also, have you already done the Hexatrek or are you going to in the summer? Looking forward to hearing about it!
Great video. Not quite converted to cold soaking yet, but getting closer!
You'll get there! I feel like it takes going on a big thru hike to really see the benefits! If I was close to home I'd still take my little stove, especially in the Winter
Yeeee this is so well done!
Denimmm!! Thanks! Looking forward to yours
Enjoyed seeing all your gear. Nice setup. Can't believe those shorts used to be white! I appreciate you explaining the "why" of each piece of gear.
I'll take your word for it on cold soaking.
No worries mate, me to regarding the shorts... they were brown pretty quickly haha but they almost felt like a trophy for all the miles I had travelled.
Definitely give cold soaking a go on longer trips, it's a breeze!
Thanks, very well presented overview. I‘m looking at getting a EE Revelation as well, but my fears of being cold made me consider the -12°C version. Was -6°C warm enough in the Sierras? Thanks!
It definitely was for me and I even cowboy camped at forester pass, we actually cowboy camped pretty much every night in the Sierra and I was fine, you could get a colder year so it’s hard to gauge but for me the -6 was heaps
Cool video! I liked the shelf outside and the concept of putting your equipment in the back. Well done. New follower here. Crow
Thanks the the comment! I'm glad you liked my idea! haha
Great information. I’m in the camp of “no way I’m cold soaking”. If you say it was working, I’ll look at making the switch. You didn’t need any micro spikes for the snowy areas?
Yeah worth a try I think! I never found myself wishing I had hot food out there. And no spikes needed in our year, it was a fairly low snow year
Always love good gear overviews. I bet if there were 1000 of those Exped mattresses on trail some would be trying to find a leak in a few of them. What do you think?
Yeah that’s probably a good point! I can only speak from experience from myself and a few friends that have them and none of us have had any issues ever but I honestly mean it when I say every single person I know on trail who had one of those famous yellow inflatables had problems
@@JackScottkeogh Probably cause the yellow baffles go side to side, not up and down. Just guessing though.
As a late gen xer 77, when ever we went camping in the 80s, sleeping on exped style, beach floaty mats. Never ever, ever again.
Ill burn the lot of them and sleep in the dirt.
Jack, can you talk about the cameras you used to film the documentary? It looked like a Sony A7 series camera, but I was wonder what else you used. Great Video!
Sure! I used a Sony 6300 with a Zeiss 24-70mm lens and I also filmed on a DJI Pocket 2
What was your starting date? And how would that impact your clothing choices next time if starting in March?
I started on April 26th mate! I would probably pack the same if I started earlier or later, knowing how easy it is to ditch stuff and get stuff back to you, I would still just take my fleece, rain jacket and hiking shirt, especially for the desert
Thank you for sharing the list, may I wonder how many literes you would still have left for the food, or what would be your feeling on what would be the max days of food you will be able to add on?
G'day mate! To be honest I am not sure how many litres my food took up but i'd say I usually carried about 3-4 days worth on average which would be a bit smaller than a shoe box (at most). Our longest food carry was about 6-7 days which was pretty damn heavy but it gets lighter pretty quickly.
@@JackScottkeogh thank you very much for sharing 🙂
Cool…thanks. What foods did you take to cold soak, I wonder?🙂🙏
No worries mate! I mainly cold soaked Knorr's Sides rice and cous cous, they're the easiest things for sure, the Knorr's sides rice takes about an hour and a half and cous cous is only about 15-20 minutes but it doesn't matter how early you put it on really
Nice stand, anything for sale there? 😀
If I sold it all, I could probably buy a house hahah
This is great thank you
Thanks Karen!
Did you and courtney each take a tent or did you share one?
Just the one! The first half we cowboy camped anyway and the second half we shared
Did you carry bear spray, ice ax or crampons? Thanks
G'day Robert! I didn't carry any of them, we had a low snow year so axe and crampons weren't required and I was never too worried about bears
@@JackScottkeogh Thanks Brother have a Blessed Day
Did you see many other Australians on the hike?
A few hear and there! I'd often hear 'I met another aussie a couple of days ago' though! It was a pretty big year for international hikers I think as it was the first hiking season that we were allowed overseas
Do you have a video of you actually picking it?
I don't sorry, I will be getting a new 35L pack shortly so I will do one once I get that! I pack my bag the same way Darwin does though so if you search his videos, that will be a great help!
Oi Oi Oi! Hey mate, loved the vid - did you buy the gear in-country, or bring it in from Oz? Doing the PCT next year and don't know whether I'd be better off importing it or buying it when I'm over there...
G'day mate! I got most of the stuff while I was still in OZ but it would make sense to get some over there, like if you buy a zpacks tent and bits and pieces you're going to get hit with important tax which will be like an extra $300 odd. Most of the other stuff I just got here or already had but it's also so easy to get stuff on trail, I'd order stuff to the next town often so I wouldn't stress too much
@@JackScottkeogh No worries, cheers for the heads-up! :)
I would buy over there as you will get wrecked on import tax if the customs dude notices. Although if you know anyone in the states get it shipped to them, they rough it up a little, take price tags and stuff sacks out and mail to you in a big messy box labeled as "camping gear" ;)
Sounds like you and Courtney both changed packs on trail? What was the pack that didn't work?
We both started with a cheapo nature hike pack, they’re just a one size fits all, otherwise they would have been fine I’d say!
@@JackScottkeogh Ah yeah, I tried one of their day packs and returned it immediately.
What was your start date and finish date, btw? That helps put your views on clothing more into perspective.
Watch the video and guess. It was a LOT warmer than when I started which was April 13. It was freezing in the mornings and the grass near Warner Springs was still a little green for me.
G'day Andy, I started on April 26th and finished on August 25th so 4 months in total. You get cold mornings pretty much the whole trail but it doesn't take long to warm up, even when i was cowboy camping at Forester pass it was fine. I also made a film on my whole trip you can see on my channel
Hey Jack, what were the average night time temperatures for the first 700 miles? I've got all the gear, I want to be comfortable but I don't want to be loaded with items I will hardly use, just as you pointed out there. A bounce box sounds like a terrific idea!
G'day mate! I cant remember exactly but I'd say maybe around 10 degrees C or around 50 F, I cowboy camped pretty much every single night of the desert and never got cold, even when you wake up to an icy sleeping bag
Was wearing a hip belt and a bum bag at the same time cumbersome?
Nah not at all, the bum bag was semi loose and It would sit over the top of my hip belt
What was the app he mentioned?
The app is called FarOut
Garlic bread didn’t get a mention. Weird😂
*my pack was made from Garlic Bread* - I forgot to put that part in
I don't think it's fair that you're getting to enjoy Australian summer after you spent an American summer hiking the PCT.
We did get the best of both worlds this year didn’t we!
Hi
Take skinner sock shoes as town and camp shoes
I'll check them out! Thanks for the suggestion
How much does it all weigh?
Great question! I'll so some math and get back to you Harry!
You didnt put it in the bag
Hello my friend
What's most impressive is YOU, do not shove any of that excessive unwanted over-priced gear into the pack, nor take-it out.
#red ...
Agh a fellow Aussie! I needed a video just like this. Are you on Insta? Cheers mate. ⛺️🇦🇺
Sure am mate! @jxckkeogh
@@JackScottkeogh Followed! Thanks!