My essential ultralight backpacking luxury items – Hiking stoves, quilts drones and cameras



We all have luxury ultralight backpacking items, but which are mine? I’ve been tagged by Cam Hikes to create my addition to the viral video topic of what other luxury items long distance hikers have in their kit list.

Some poeple have items such as down booties, inflatable pillows, portable speakers and many other things, but for me, my most luxurious items are my Canon M50 mirrorless camera, my Rode Video Micro directional microphone, my DJI Mavic Air Drone, as well as my Katabatic Gear 30 degree down sleeping quilt and my MSR Pocket Rocket 2 stove.

Many people decide to cold soak instead of taking stoves, some use sleeping bags instead of quilts, some don’t use drones or big cameras and instead go for just their phone or a small compact.

So I consider these items to be luxury items in my UL backpacking gear list because they’re on the pricier side of hiking gear, they’re lightweight for the quality and not all hikers carry them.

My nominated YouTubers!

Ben – Londoner Outdoors
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0n8ctI0E6rjc1bTy7EnxZw/featured

Jody – Jodz Harrison
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPrfWl5HkpLnDJmdQQJI-wg

Brad – Northern Peak
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaCXcJ4ZRYgj_-uwA9cbxlA

Gear featured in this video:

Canon M50: https://amzn.to/2HfyoFl
18-150mm lens: https://amzn.to/2HeLpPj
Rode Video Micro: https://amzn.to/2XVEiAg
Katabatic Gear Pakisade Down sleeping quilt: https://goo.gl/
MSR Pocket Rocket 2: https://amzn.to/2O0iwHl

MY CURRENT FULL KIT LIST BELOW!

BIG 3

Tent – Zpacks Solplex
http://www.zpacks.com/shelter/solplex.shtml

Backpack – HMG 2400 Windrider
2400 Windrider

Sleeping quilt – Katabatic Gear 30deg Palisade down sleeping quilt

Palisade 30°F

CAMERA EQUIPMENT AND ELECTRONICS

Compact camera – Sony RX100 Mk5
https://amzn.to/2U0n02O

Drone – DJI Mavic Air (NOT PERMITTED IN HIMALAYAS)
https://amzn.to/2E2FsRn

Tripod – Joby GorillaPod
https://amzn.to/2NhpWFA

Microphone – Rode VideoMicro
https://amzn.to/2SPP7Fs

Sound recorder – Zoom H1
https://amzn.to/2SSctdu

Flash bracket
https://amzn.to/2V4jIvo

Phone – iPhone 8+
https://amzn.to/2Vd765j

Storage – Sandisk Extreme 64GB
https://amzn.to/2SgYOHx

GPS Tracking – Garmin Forerunner 35
https://amzn.to/2Ebo8tR

Power bank – Anker Powercore+ 13400mah
https://amzn.to/2BH9A4n

Headlamp – Black Diamond Ion
https://amzn.to/2SQwaCo

CLOTHING

Shoes – Altra Lone Peak 4.0 trail runners
https://amzn.to/2H0yIHC

Shoes – New Balance Minimus trail runners
https://amzn.to/2XgMlaL

Shoes – New Balance Zante v3
https://amzn.to/2Em9mSe

Rain jacket – Patagonia Torrentshell
https://amzn.to/2BH8xRZ

Down puffy – North Ridge Hybrid
https://goo.gl/yZun89

HYDRATION

Water filter – Sawyer Mini

MINI Water Filtration System

Vessels – Smart Water bottles

COOK SYSTEM

Stove – MSR Pocket Rocket 2 Stove
https://amzn.to/2SPNO9w

Fuel – MSR Butane/Propane bottle
https://amzn.to/2SRzuwX

EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES

Ground sheet
https://amzn.to/2Niy09c

Zpacks tent poles
http://www.zpacks.com/accessories/tent_pole.shtml

HMG compartment pod
Pods

Leki Trekking Pole
https://amzn.to/2VaE8De

Thermarest Neoair Xlite sleeping mattress
https://amzn.to/2BHUM5G

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5 Comments

  1. I have a few luxury items: gopro and accessories, sit pad and a luxury pillow and a keeping bag liner and I better not forget the Tone of chocolate.

  2. I'm loving the quilt Russel – I've checked it our before. When I get the money I will treat myself. As for the camera I'll give that a miss. I think the RX100 will do for me right now – with 20 m Megapixels I can crop without to much damage. As for stoves I use the Evernew or the heavier Crusader set, which I have an attachment to. Any way well presented. Mark

  3. Brilliant video mate, interesting to see and hear about your luxury items, camera gear is always a killer when it comes to that added weight but definitely worth it!! Thank you for the tag and shout out much appreciated…. I will look at putting a video together soon. Cheers mate peace out

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