 try to limit all of our purchases today to under $25 and I will make sure to leave links in the description box so that you can refer back to them. So let's go ahead and start with gift idea number one and that is a first aid kit. This is a very important piece of gear. It should be in every hiker's pack. No exception. You should be able to tend to yourself if you are in an emergency situation. Now with the typical first aid kit you will be able to find some bandages, band-aids, safety pins, duct tape, emergency blanket, alcohol wipes and all of these things are very important if you are in trouble or if you are in an emergency situation to help yourself and perhaps even help people around you. So this particular one right here goes for $9.99 on Amazon. The next on the list is a go-byte spoon and fork duo. This is one of my favorite pieces of gear to be honest. I really love the fact that it's very light weight, it's BPA free. I love the fact that I can separate them and I can use the spoon if I want to eat directly from a cup or a bowl. I can use the fork for the same purpose or if you are like us people who like to eat directly from a mountain house meal you really want to make sure that you do have something long enough that you can dig deeper to eat from the pack. So this is one of the reasons why I love this and I think this can make for a very nice gift for your friends and loved ones. This particular one right here goes for $7.49. Again it depends on what brand you are going for but for this particular one $7.49 on Amazon. That takes us to the next item on our list and that's the noon tablets. I don't have any with me right here but noon tablets if you're not familiar with them are small tablets that you can add to your water and they provide you with all the necessary electrolytes, vitamins and minerals that you need to sustain yourself when you are hiking and backpacking. They're quite popular amongst hikers and backpackers and so I found you this package on Amazon that goes for $21.68 that has four tubes of the noon tablets and you pretty much can find them in Walmart, REI, Amazon pretty much everywhere and they come in different flavors. Next item on the list that we have for you here are the Nalgene water bottles. For some reason I can't find mine, I can't find Alex's. It's just like the bottles heard that they are going to be shown to the public and decided to disappear on me today but love the Nalgene water bottles. I take them on every single hike on top of the three liters of spray hydration pack. I just love the fact that they have a wide mouth. It's easy to throw some ice, some noon tablets like I was saying earlier and love the fact that the lid is attached to the bottle. This way you don't have the chance to drop it and not only that but they actually make for nice photo props if you take them to beautiful places and just hold them and take nice photos. So I think that the Nalgene water bottle would definitely make for a nice gift. You can add in stickers and personalize it and make it feel like you make it speak about your personality and things that you really like doing in the outdoors. A typical Nalgene water bottle would go for $11.99. All right, so next on the list are the magnificent buffs. This is Alex's buff. So buffs are perfect. They are usually used as head covers or a headband. Personally, sometimes just roll it around my hand and use it to clean if I have any sweat on my forehead. There are tons of things that you can do with the buff. The only thing to keep in mind when you are buying one, make sure that it's either made of marina wool or a material that wicks the moisture, especially if you are going to use it to clean sweat from your forehead. You want to make sure that it's going to wick the moisture. So the prices again depends on the brand and on the material and they range from $20 up to $30. All right, next on the list are my favorite little collapsible campaign cups. So these campaign cups are from the brand Sea to Summit, which is a very nice brand. This is the large version of the cup and this is the smaller version. I have used them to drink hot beverages, cold beverages, coffee, tea. Sometimes I would use the large one to make some oatmeal just to kind of throw some oats and add some warm water to it. They're really perfect. I love the fact that you just rinse them off and then you collapse them and when you collapse them they don't take that much space in your backpack, which is very important, especially if you are carrying or backpacking a lot of gear. So these small collapsible campaign cup from Sea to Summit goes for $12.79 and I believe that the larger one should be probably a couple of dollars more. And that takes us to the next item on the list here and that is the stature reusable plastic bags. Now for a long time I used just regular plastic Ziploc bags but then at some point I just decided to be a little bit more responsible and use something that's eco-friendly and more reusable and I opted for this brand here. Now as you see right here I use it to pack trail mix but I also, since it's heat resistant, I use it to make my oatmeal. So when we are going backpacking I would just store in some oats with either cinnamon or maybe milk powder and then when we get to camp for breakfast I would add in hot water and it worked really well for me. So I bought these three just to kind of see if I'm going to like them, if they are really nice to have and I think that I'm loving them so far. So that can make for a very nice gift. The brand as I said is stature. The prices are different depending on what package you want to go with. You want to go with a single bag or you want to go with a collection of three to four. So I'm going to leave a link again just take a look and see what works best for you but this is a very nice responsible little gift for your friends. Next gift idea for you is a book especially if you know that this person loves and enjoys reading books especially paper books or physical books. So here I don't really have a specific book for you but you can choose between either an entertaining book or an informative book. So for example as an informative book there is this book right here the survivor manual that I read a couple of times. It gives you some information about the basics that you should know when you are in the outdoors, how to deal with hypothermia for example, how to make some knots really useful just if you want to relax at camp and learn something new. If you are looking at an entertaining book one of my favorite books about hiking and the mountains is touch the top of the world and this is a story of a blind man who is not only a hiker but he is a climber and he sets off on crazy challenges to climb some of the most difficult mountains around the world and some of the seven summits and it's really inspiring. So this is a nice entertaining book if you are looking at something of this sort. Otherwise I do have a whole video about some of my favorite books about hiking backpacking and mountains and you can check it out here. The next item is one of my favorites especially for people who like camping car camping in particular or van life or who tend to cook when they are outside and that is a multi-spice. You probably saw this in Walmart before but this is a little container that has six spices it's got salt, black pepper, garlic salt, cayenne, curry, paprika very useful and this particular one right here goes for $6.25. Next up is a nice authentic opinel knife. Now I love multi-tools I have so many of them but I do like a single opinel knife. It just feels like it's very authentic. These knives are made in France and they've been in the market I think since 1890. I remember when I was back home my dad grandpa uncles every single one of them had an opinel knife it's just a handyman thing they were sailors and fishermen so every single one of them had an opinel knife so when I found it here I was like well I am definitely getting one. So this particular one goes for $17 and will make for very nice gifts. Next up is a halo skull cup. So this is not mine this is Alex's but this is a skull cup especially for guys who or girls who are bold so this works perfect if you are hiking in cold temperature weather just to make sure that it's protecting your head and you're not losing a lot of heat from your head which is very important if you are hiking in colder temperatures so this little halo cap really love it love the fact that there is a sticker right here just to make sure that it sticks to your forehead and it doesn't slide that much and then you can wear I don't know a hat or anything that you would normally wear so this one really handy and very very light let's see is it gonna fit me all right so what do we have next next up are the liner socks aka the one thing that probably helps me to never ever get blisters ever so I don't know what the science is behind it but I know that a lot of people say that if you do wear liner socks underneath your regular socks that is going to help you prevent blisters and this is something that I've been doing for a long time and I never ever had blisters we had the the four days of the Inca trail to Machu Picchu I worn liner socks every single day and it worked perfect and I was very comfortable and I think that you know just liner socks a pack of liner socks will be something that's going to make your friend very very happy moving on to the next item here are a cleaning kit yes so that is a very important thing something that you can use to clean your hydration bladder this kit contains different type of brushes long brush short brush to clean the pipe you have a rack that you can use to dry the bladder and it's really perfect you can use it to clean your hydration pack you can also use the brushes to to clean all the water bottles that you use when you are hiking and backpacking so this particular kit from the brand Tagvo goes for eight dollars ninety nine cents and this is the one that I have been using for a good amount of time right now you want to see a video about how to use the the cleaning kit and how to clean your hydration pack you can check a whole video right there energy chewies as we call them these are perfect to give you energy when you are hiking and backpacking and to be honest they are very addictive so if you are my friend then you are watching this do not give to me the chewies because the way it goes for me I eat one on the trail and then I can't stop that is not so good because they do have a lot of caffeine and you should respect the amount that is recommended which I don't do that's not healthy but anyway so on amazon I found this package of 12 count that goes for 22 dollars 94 cents Orchard Valley honey roasted mixed nuts this is something that Alex's mom sent us last year and I wanted to suggest it because there are actually 15 packets inside of this and for short hikes I would just grab a pack throw it in my backpack and that makes for a nice snack so this particular one right here goes for 14 dollars and like I said it's got 15 individual trail mix packets right moving on to the next item on the list is camping meals so still talking about food usually we would go with the mountain house meals this is what we've been using for a long time now I love the meat and lasagna maybe you guys tell me in a comment which one do you like but the other time we were in REI I kind of just wanted to try something new and I grabbed this brand peak refuel got the beef chili mac and then the chicken teriyaki rice now you don't have to to go with any of these brands that I'm talking about here but that there's just something to think about camping meals make for a very nice gift you just want to make sure that you have a couple of them in your pantry and you are ready to go camping just grab it throw it in your backpack and you're good to go so with these meals all you have to do just have some warm water add it to the pack leave it there for a couple of minutes and it's good to go and I think that takes care of the majority of the items that I have in front of me oh there is one more the last one on the list actually I can go on and on and on and cover all of my gear but I want it to make sure that this video is limited but the last one on the list here is this little thing do you have any guess what this is so this is a bear spray canister holder so a lot of times when we go to national parks that are outside of Arizona we have to buy a bear spray because obviously you can't fly with it because it's a flammable item and a lot of times we we miss a holder for the bear spray because when you buy the bear spray you want to make sure that it's something that you can reach easily so with a bear spray holder all you have to do is to place the canister inside and then you want to run your belt through this and this way it is by your hip and you can access it very easily if you need to use it on the trail so this is a very nice thoughtful gift idea for your friends especially if you know that they do a lot of hiking in bear country so this particular one goes for $9.99 happy holidays and I hope that you guys found this video to be useful and please if you did give it a thumbs up consider subscribing to our channel we are trekking pals Habiba and Alex we're amateur hikers and backpackers and we make videos about hiking backpacking and adventure traveling we are very happy to have you here and we will see you soon on a new adventure bye