We are headed out tomorrow to start our five weeks in Nepal and China. As such, I'm doing the obligatory packing post. Jordan has the medical gear and assorted toiletries. My bag weighs in at ~23lbs (without water). We were originally planning to do the Annapurna Circuit, but an unexpected blizzard hit the region making key portions of the trail inaccessible. Instead, we plan to do the Everest Base Camp (EBC) trek, which is shorter (~60 miles), but we get to see Mount Everest. We should top out at 5,643m (18,513ft) at Kala Patthar, likely the highest point Jordan and I will ever visit. Needless to say, we are excited.
The List:
- My Bag - 40L, REI Lookout 40, same as I took on our RTW trip
- Sandals
- Hiking Boots (not pictured)
- Sleeping Bag
- Base layer pants
- Shorts
- Pants (only one pair this time around, Jordan thinks I'm insane)
- 3x t-shirts
- Long sleeve shirt
- Micro down jacket
- Gortex rain jacket
- Thin jacket
- 3x socks
- 3x underwear
- Travel towel
- Sunglasses
- Spare glasses
- Hat
- Gloves
- Vaccination card
- Passport
- Money thing
- Microfiber cloth
- Duct tape
- Playing cards
- 2x 1L collapsible water bottles
- Headlamp
- 5000 mAh USB battery
- Travel plug adapter
- 2 iPhone cables
- 1 mini usb cable
- 1 micro usb cable
- Travel power strip
- 3x 5V 1A power adapters
- Pulse oximeter
- Kindle
- Glif camera mount for the iPhone
- Sony NEX 5
- Sony SL55210 lens
- Sony SL16 lens
- Think Tank camera bag
- 3x camera batteries (one in camera)
- 4x 16GB SD cards
- 32GB SD card (in camera)
- Headphones
- USD SD card reader
- Camera air blower cleaning thinger (thinger is a technical term)
- Tripod
- Strapping
- GoPro
- GoPro bag mount
- 2x GoPro batteries
- 32GB micro SD card (in GoPro)
- Steripen (for killing nasty stuff in water)
- Ankle brace (just in case)
- iPhone (took the picture)
- Compression sack
- 2x misc mini bags to pack stuff
We saved some room this time around by only bringing iPhones and kindles. I replaced our computing devices with a sleeping bag which we didn't have last time around. For flying, the bag is quite full, but once the camera bag comes out (it connects to the backpack) there is a ton of room in the bag.
That is all for now. I'm sure Jordan will be posting to Facebook occasionally and I'll try to get pictures up on here as much as possible.