 I want you to know that the last time I did one of these packing for an ultra videos, I DNF'd said ultra. So you know you may want to ignore everything I'm about to tell you. It's February 2019 and I am packing for the Archivetrician 2019. The Archivetrician is a 100 mile race, well actually it's a little bit more than 100 miles maybe 104 something like that, around the southwest coast path in Cornwall. I've done it twice before, I've finished both times, both times under 30 hours. The cut-off is 36 hours, it's a gnarly old trail, I mean it's not easily runnable in many many parts and 13 hours of it is total darkness, you're on cliff edges, it's slippery. Navigation is not too bad, as long as you keep the sea on your left and you follow the little acorn signs, which are the waymarked signs for the southwest coast path, you should be alright, but it's still easy to go wrong, especially in the dark. Also it's winter so it's going to be cold, it could be snowing, it could be raining, it's likely to be a bit windy, so you do need to keep protected. So here's what I've got to take with me for the Archivetrician 2019. There is a mandatory kit list of course as well, so we need to keep an eye on that. Let's start with what I'm putting in my backpack. So my backpack is the cheap version of the Nathan backpack, so you might recognise these colours. Nathan do a really nice backpack in these colours. This is the cheaper budget version by Aenege, that's how I pronounce it anyway, Aenege, I think that's what it is, and it's much cheaper than the Nathan pack and it's served me very well for a good few months now. I do have the Nathan pack but it's a bit small for me, so I've got a larger pack and I thought I'd go for this one. Whistle. There's plenty of room here, it's fine for me and it'll be fine for this 100 mile journey. Then inside the pack we need to be able to carry one and a half litres of fluid, so I have three Salomon soft flasks here. To be perfectly honest they are okay, I have had splits in these before, they're not they're not brilliant, so they will go in my backpack. Only two of them will be filled up at a time, I'll have an empty one just in case. Also in the backpack to comply with mandatory kit list I have long waterproof Montaigne trousers, I almost certainly won't be wearing them but they've got to go in the backpack and so there they are. Also required is a body bag, biffy bag, so this is the smallest one I could find and I'm pretty sure that complies with the mandatory kit list, so that is going in my backpack but just in case that other one doesn't pass kit check I've got this spare one which I'll be carrying down to Cornwall with me. You need to carry a fully charged mobile phone, I have my mobile phone in a waterproof sealed bag, the kind of bag that you might carry your maps in as well if you have maps. I'll also be putting a tiny little compass in my backpack. Last year I ended up going in completely the opposite direction for some reason in the middle of the night, so if I have my brain and my wits about me I will use the compass and just make sure I am going west, never each ready. I am going in the right direction, whatever the right direction is. Batteries, so I have two battery packs for charging my phone and for charging my watch, so I've got the battery packs. I'm using a Garmin Fenix 5x, so that's the charging cable for the Fenix and then we've got the charging cable for my iPhone, so all that is going in the backpack. Buffs, my crew will be carrying plenty of spare dry buffs but we have to have a buff with us so there's a buff and we'll also be carrying some tights as well, we need long tights. Again a lot of this stuff I won't actually wear, so again the tights I probably won't wear but you have to remember a mandatory kitlist so you've got to carry it anyway and be the reason that it's on the mandatory kitlist is if you do fall and break your leg if something happens to you you will get cold very quickly. You need to survive so you need to get in your kit, get in that body bag and stay there till help arrives. We have to have two sets of gloves, a Gore-Tec set of gloves so these are waterproof and I've got another warm set of gloves and I actually have another kind of liner pair as well so the liner pair if it gets really cold at night the liner pair will go on and then the warm gloves will go on top. The annoying thing about the Gore-Tecs gloves unfortunately they do get very sweaty. These are actually seal skins so these seal skin gloves although they keep your hands dry from the outside wet they get wet inside because you're sweating and it doesn't really seem to go anywhere so I don't really like these very much but I'm taking them with me but these Montaigne gloves are the ones I will wear they are warm and even if your hands get wet they're not waterproof and even if your hands get wet they stay warm inside these gloves so those are my gloves but all of those three pairs of gloves are going in the backpack. You need to carry two long sleeve base layer so this is one base layer it's nothing special just a long sleeve top and then I'm also wearing my Montaigne long sleeve Montaigne fleece. Also in the backpack again complying with mandatory kit list I've got my cup now there are two kinds of cups you can get this kind of very easy collapsible hydro pack and it's just screws up really small. I don't like that very much because you spill tea all over yourself. This is the one I will probably use this is much harder it's still small fits in your backpack it pulls open like that so one of those will go in my backpack not the other one lights. Okay lights is a really important one you need two head torches and you need batteries and spare batteries for the head torches so my main torch is going to be the Petzl Naio Plus so I have this battery pack now you can buy a spare full one of those for about £50 but what I do and I don't know if you can still get them but I buy the spare internal battery which looks like that much cheaper if you can find them and then when you need to change a battery you open up the back of this and you put this battery inside so that is my main light my Petzl Naio Plus with the spare battery but I've also got this little Petzl light as my backup it's very light it's very small it's actually not the greatest light in the world but it passes kit check and it's operated by a CR2032 coin cell so one of these little kind of coin cell batteries so that is my spare backup light but I'm also taking with me in the car with the crew my LED lens so if I have a disaster with both of those lights when I next see my crew I have this light to fall back on and further to that I've also got this tiny little light here just again another spare just in case so those lights and batteries will go in the backpack and this LED lens will go with my crew I'm also carrying some paracetamol with me as well so that will go there so that's everything I think that I'm carrying with me on my back so now we can look at stuff I'm actually wearing on the day so starting at the bottom shoes I've got my Hooker Evo Maffate very comfortable long-distance trail shoes grip on the bottom is good and these have covered a good few miles now they did CCC with me in Chamonix and they've coked alright they're a bit dirty but I very rarely wash my trail shoes so I've got those I've also got my speed goat twos which I'll wear if I feel I need to change into anything as far as socks go I'll be taking in Jinji's so I've got mid-weight quite thick warm in Jinji toe socks I've been wearing these for a number of years now and I do like them so I'll be wearing one pair and I'll have another pair and some of the sundry socks in the bag in the car with my crew so next up is shorts I'm quite a fan of Kalenji you get them from Decathlon they're pretty tight fitting they may leave very little to the imagination but they are comfortable so there's shorts and I'll have a few pairs of those in the bag with the crew and wearing one pair underwear do not underestimate the value of good underwear and as long as you've got your Vaseline on for many years I've worn ex-bionic underwear so I'll take those with me but I'm actually gonna wear my newish Runderwear underwear so I've got those on top I'm gonna be wearing my ex-bionic tops I've been wearing ex-bionic for years now I find them really comfortable I like the fact that they're tight fitting they don't move about so there's not a lot of friction so you don't get chafing as much as you might with other tops so I've got various ex-bionic tops there that I'm gonna wear and on top of that I'm probably going to wear my Montaigne fleece so there'll be my ex-bionic top my Montaigne fleece and then my OMM jacket on the top so three layers for most of the race unless I get hot during the day when I will take the the fleece off but generally I'll be wearing all three layers throughout the whole race so this is my OMM waterproof jackets a hood with a peak cap on the kit list you need a waterproof hat now my hat isn't waterproof but as long as you've got a hood on your jacket with a peak cap then you're all right so my waterproof jacket passes kit check. Hats so I'm wearing these Karimor beanies I've got a couple of these so I'll wear one keep one in the bag in the car and swap over when they get wet I've also got a waterproof cap that I could wear if I wanted to but generally these beanies will keep my head nice and warm so that's it for everything that I'm going to wear so other stuff that I am going to take with me and have in the bag in the car to use if I need it first up poles these are my lecky lightweight poles I've used them an awful lot in lots of different races transvolcania and CCC in particular and I did use them for one section of the archivatrician last year and I think I found them helpful so I may well use them again this year so poles. I don't think I shall be using these but there is talk of snow I don't think I will be wearing my snow grips but I'm bringing them just in case they will be in the car in the bag in case I need them. At the beginning of the race and possibly during the race I will be smothering myself in Vasili you can use this kind of anti-friction cream as well but I tend to find that Vasili does a perfectly good job and you know I put it in all the usual places that you might let's move on so nutrition in my flasks I will have water and possibly coke or Red Bull or you know that Purdy's stuff I quite like that Purdy's so I might have that I do like my coffee so I will have plenty of these iced lattes in the car and every time I see my crew I'll grab one of these and then Huell is my main nutrition so this I mix with full fat milk I think you're supposed to mix it with water because it's kind of vegan friendly. It is a full meal in a drink I will have that again almost every stop I'll have a drink of Huell. It's difficult to carry it with you in flasks because it doesn't mix up very well it's a bit gritty so I wouldn't put it in a flask. There are only four aid stations in the whole archipetrician 100 mile race but they are very well stocked with food. If I do need something a bit more substantial than just my Huell drink which no doubt I will there's plenty of soup, pasta, pizzas, sandwiches all sorts of things that you could want at the aid station so I will certainly take advantage of that. I'll have a full set of clothes to change into at the end of the race so that will all be in the car as well. So I think that's everything if I've missed something out do let me know in the comments but everything I'm carrying in my backpack everything I'm wearing and everything that'll be in my bag in the car which I can get whenever I see my crew I think that is it. So thanks for watching guys if you've got an ultra coming up good luck with it I hope your packing goes well I hope you don't forget anything and take care we'll see you next time don't forget please subscribe to the filmirer on YouTube channel click that little bell icon down there you know all the usual gobbins take care see you soon bye bye