[pct-l] Quality gear for less.

[Steel-Eye]

Good morning, Good Times,

 

The lightest, most fashionable, least expensive, trouble-free, and highly-appreciated piece of gear is the one you decide you can leave in the store and hike without.  It's too early to know if crampons and/or an ice axe are advisable, but so far SoCal snow is about average.  If you think you want crampons, try screws in the soles of your sneakers.  Clothes?  Go to the Goodwill or Salvation Army store and find a pair of running shorts and a poly tee shirt.  You could also probably find a poly-fleece pullover and maybe a thin, light windbreaker jacket as well.  After a few days on the trail big-name logos and fashion nametags become rather meaningless, anyway.

 

Food cost me about $11.  per day, either delivered from home or purchased locally, but that excludes trail town pig-outs.  Probably the biggest question is the extent to which you become addicted to zero-days in hotels, lodges, and resorts.



Steel-Eye  



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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jordan2ynp at aol.com 
  To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 6:31 AM
  Subject: [pct-l] Quality gear for less.


  Hello wonderful PCT group,

  I am in my gear list stage and I am trying to find the best quality, lowest weight, and least expensive gear I can find. Can anybody recommend rain gear, an ice axe, crampons, or general hiking cloths? I am trying to outfit my pack for under a grand and I have buy almost all my gear from scratch. 

  Also, do people do the PCT for under $400 a month while they are on the trail?

  Your broke as a joke pal,
  Good Times


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