After every season, it seems it is time to re-evaluate and improve on ones kit. I have to admit, mine worked out pretty well this year, at least by seasons end. A few minor improvements I will likely make
- Just use a dedicated gravity water system , and maybe augment it with tablets. I have been making a sawyer based system , but by the time I weighed the complete system it was more than my platy , slower and more fussy. If water is good, I'll probably take the platy and call it good
- I'd still like to improve my sleeping pad situation. It's not that I have bad pads, because I love my Down Mat, and I like my combo prolite torso and CCF. The problem is the combo is not good if you are situated on bunch grass, and while the down mat is fine, it's not easy to pull a way from camp for possible bivy. I don't know if the ideal set up exists for me,
- Clothing, I could do a better job of re-applying DWR before hand, and will probably carry a poncho tarp like item with some built on orange panels for really crappy wet weather.
- I may re-eval BiPod / Tripod type of stuff, or I might not.
- Food ..as always. I'm not a big mountain house type of person. I generally subsist on nuts , jerky and some bars. After a few weeks of being mostly in the field , I could not take any more bars. Some more substantial type of food would have been welcome.
The rest of my kit worked pretty well.
