 Now then, long time no see, been a while hasn't it? I hope everyone's okay. As you can tell by the title, this is just, I'm just going through the stuff that I took with me on my recent Cape Wrath Trail journey. So stick around, if that's what you're into, I'm gonna, it's gonna be quite a detailed look. I'm not gonna go too deep because I'm gonna do a few individual reviews on some of the good stuff and maybe do the clothes separately as well in a more detailed review. Yeah, I just thought before all the kit gets dispersed around house and tidied up and I forget what I took and whatnot, I just thought I'd show you, quickly go through what I took with me. The weight, I've just weighed it, I can't really tell you at weight man because I don't have the food that I've eaten off food and stuff like that so I reckon, what did I weigh? And it's about 12K, 12KG with all the food. Without the food we're about 8.7 kilograms as a base weight. So let me just quickly start, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't do it in dad shots. You didn't worry about that. So we'll start on outside then, what did I wear? I'm gonna run through this quick. I took this, I wore this a lot man, this outdoor research cap, very lightweight, just kept the sun out of my eyes, it kept the sun off my back and when it was raining it was perfect just to shelter my eyes and my face from the rain. It also comes with like a little floppy bit down the side so that you can fully enclose yourself to protect yourself from the sun, maybe even give yourself a little bit of protection from the midges as well. That was brilliant. What was good as well with this, there was hardly any dead weight, I think I used everything. Footwear, it's a big bone of contention, I'm gonna talk about this a little bit more in depth in another video but look at the sun's blazing it through, isn't it? Look at that man. A bit too sunny is it you think? So a couple of days before I set off I had to change your heart and went for my lowers to these Lone Peak fives, these Altra Lone Peak fives. So with that I've got these Montaigne, Via, little ankle gate is there and they come with like these little plastic things, elasticated things that go underneath. Now I wore through four of them, I wore through four of them on the trail so they could do with being a bit stronger or just take a few more wear. These are the Aklima Merino, like running socks or liner socks almost so that there's not a lot of weight in them and they're dried quickly. So that was that was my footwear, my duds of choice with these, I know we're talking about duds on the internet, what's going on? These are, I don't know what specifics but the icebreaker, someone's just cranked chainsaw, but we're going to plod on regardless. Icebreaker, I think the Merino will as well, they were brilliant trousers. Last minute change of trousers I went for these, which were the Phil Raven Vida trekking leggings, so skin tight so that ticks and whatnot can't get all up in you and then I just used my belt from my Montaigne pants on there. These were so good, they've got reinforced knees, reinforced buttocks. These were brilliant, Nordic Outdoors, thanks for that mate, they were brilliant. So yeah Nordic Outdoors started me out with these, my Merino wool socks and Merino wool base layer and they also said that if anybody wants to use Nordic Outdoors, they've given me a 5% discount to give to you and excluding tents and axes, so any of the, no excluding tents and axes, so any of the clothing, any of the Nordic clothing that you can see or anything else on the website or on the shop, you get 5% off and just use Hayes 5, check out and you'll get 5% off all your gear, so thanks to Nordic Outdoors for that, for hooking you guys up. Now I changed these, these were changeable, a t-shirt for when it was too hot, this is just a crag-opper, crag-opper t-shirt, links for everything will be below, that's a go outdoors jobby and then this I've had for time and a half, which is just a rab, a rab layer, so just switch between these depending on how hot or cold it was on the day, right on the outside of the pack, I'll just realise this is going to be quite a long video, sorry, rain stuff which was needed, TBH needed, these are there, my Berghaus, Deluge waterproof trousers and they work a treat, they've not let me down yet, I recommend them. This, now when you go to Scotland, especially in the Highlands, you're going to get wet, it's just a given, it's an absolute given, sheer given, so I did get a, I did a lot of research and people were saying about the frog, tog frogs, waterproof, all in one suit and that the jacket was really good, so I've got that and in testing it up until the time I went, it let me down, it leaked, because of the low neck on it, it leaked all in the front there and got soaking wet, so I went for this, which is, it's a, it's a collaboration between Ronhill and Mountain Equipment, it's a, like a trail running waterproof jacket, Gore-Tex, that was amazing, that just shook water off, no bother, really good, absolutely brilliant in fact, a bit on the expensive side, but amazing, I will do a separate review on that actually and maybe compare it to the, to that frog tog's one, on outside I always have this, that's just my zeelite that I've cut down, that is perfect for just standing on them, if you're getting it out of water or just using as a porch, take that on all the trips, what else is in here, oh a little, this was my towel, it's just a sponge, so I use this to just dry myself if I've been for a swim and the, and I use it to dry the inside of my tent as well, when it was, you know, when I had condensation, this would dry the inside of the tent and the outside and just wring it out and then pop it back in there, saves carrying a full camp towel, what else on outside there, water bottles, that was it, I just took two smart water bottles, at 600 millilitres each and just felt, filled them as I went, didn't take any water to begin with, this is so much water as you, as you're hiking through the highlands, also this was an added extra, I carried a full can of northern monk, because why not and also, why not, oh this isn't even the one I took with me, did I even, did I make it and did I drink the one halfway, no one knows just yet, unless you follow me on Instagram, I forgot to say the bag, the bag I took was my trusty Osprey Exos 48 and that has seen some action, I've had this for years, you see there, it's a bit, it's got a bit of wear and tear and a bit of wear and tear on front but it's, I love, it's so comfortable, it's got this, I mean, this air flow system at the back, even when you're hot, your back's up against there and the air can still flow through there, so I'm not in any rush to get a super lightweight bag when this is just doing everything for me, I just love, I love how comfy it is, it just fits really nice and, and yeah 48 litre, that's all I needed. Shall we have a look first thing we get to, the tent, the Lanshan 2 Pro, it's a thumbs up, it was amazing and I'm used to setting up the Lanshan 1 from, from doing a lot of long distance hiking in that, so this was very similar to setting that up, so I could set it up really quickly, right, this brings me on to this, just a quick side track, my hiking poles, now I've marked it in blue at the optimum height for the, for the Lanshan and I also hiked it, I used them for hiking at the same height, so when I got to camp I could just straighten ground, didn't need to mess about with them, I knew where they were and then if it was windy and rainy I would drop them a little bit to seal the edges, if I wanted more airflow you raise them a little bit, but that is how I add it with the blue ones, I think it works about 135 centimetres in total, that, but just marked it with a sharpie so that I could find it quickly, but that was, I mean there's more to come on the actual trip videos but what a tent, didn't let me down, didn't leak, I had a bit of condensation on a couple of the nights but that's what, you're going to get that anyway, it's really like easy to pack, easy to set up and put down, the only problem is is when I camped at the side of like forestry tracks a couple of times so it was hard to get the pegs into the ground and I had to just tie it off onto rocks, it's not free standing so that's the only time you'll have to worry and then this was how umden I had about taking these, but these are four delta pegs which are like hardcore pegs, these aren't going anywhere and halfway through the trip I was like these are annoying me, the roomy way I'd not used them and then there was a couple of nights where I got pretty bad, there was pretty bad wind and I was thankful of these so I'm glad I took them and I would take them again because Scotland is no joke just to just to help you from when it gets a bit wild, this was my food bag, well man I've just got one meal left in my food bag and I took uh how many did I take 15, I think I took 15, 15 of these meals because my plan was to have one a day and then I took coffees and energy bars and that lasted me and then every time you get to like uh if you come across a cafe or a shop or anything just stock up get something to eat along the way a lot of people will refill or send them they'll send care packages to themselves to pick up along the way and I didn't do that I just carried everything with me I just felt easier doing that and you also get the added bonus of your bag just getting progressively lighter as you go which is quite a dream good for legs and good for morale, I mean I've done, you've seen this a few times, I took the MSR Pocket Rocket 2 that was my stove, a gas holder for stability and I went for a little bit bigger than the five, I went for the, I went for me 700, I was at 750 I'm not sure, Torx Titanium and that just has a little bit lighter in there a little drying towel I took one of these 200, I took two actually two 240 grams one in there and a spare one but halfway through I realised I wasn't going to use or need them both so I ditched the one I'd been using and just carried a full one with me and that was more than enough so I would only take one of them if I did it again I'd just take one of them because I was only about one meal a day and maybe the odd brew here and there, my spare gloves, right these are good for morale these like these are darn tough, I mean darn tough socks I kept these dry just until the last day then I wore them as a little treat but these I alternated these and these were just camp socks these were just to be worn in my sleeping bag and around camp two of them and then a spare pair of the acclimat liner socks that I rotated with the ones that I wore during the day so I'd alternate these and then these were just for camp these other undies mate Patagonia duds I forget the name links below for everything but they sort of bubbled up on the first day I wore these on the first day and I got a I got a pretty bad chafe on them so I bottled it on these and just went on to the the icebreakers which worked they were brilliant so I just wore these for swimming in the end so I wouldn't recommend them these were just for at camp these were the acclimat light wool they were so lightweight but so warm as well and such a joy such a joy to put on after hiking and then this was a bit of a thicker thing but this is the acclimat hooded top lots of different options with it to put over your head you can cover your mouth and it's got a little mouthpiece in there with like a mesh so you can still breathe out of it and I was thankful of that on a couple of occasions a knee brace gives me right knee gives me jib but I tried it when me right knee was giving me jib and it's just it rubs too much up back so I didn't use that and I wouldn't have took that if I had in hindsight I wouldn't have took that what's this oh just a just like a buff use that a few times to put over your head when it's a little bit colder on a night and then that's my thing for me this is the thing for this like that's one of them job do you know the score you know the score but I didn't use that either so sack that if it was a if it was peak summer maybe I would have won though my camping mat was my thermo rest ex-therm large I thought about getting some at lighter but then what's the point in uh in just spending loads more money on things that are just a little bit lighter when I've got this is this is this isn't going to let me down and I've had it for years and I will just use this on a night because I couldn't be janked to blow it up so just this full full of air and like that and it just blows out and so I'll just sit and do that something to do yeah who needs Netflix who needs Netflix when you can blow up a camping bed pillow of choice trecology it's got a strap so you can strap it around your air bed so it doesn't slide off and that was brilliant then what's in here last thing so in here is my sleeping bag also these work brilliant these are down trousers stop saying pants I say pants me I've always said work pants and I'll say trousers trousers these were down trousers really comfortable really warm and just a joy to get on after a day's hiking nature hike ones they're a lot lighter than my uh military softies as well they were brilliant uh and they said I only wore around camp and wore it out when I was hiking maybe once up when I was up on the tops and it got cold this is my Patagonia and I can't remember the name but it's not a down jacket it's a it's synthetic because I didn't want to take a down jacket somewhere that was going to be potentially soaking wet for 14 days straight so I just wear that like my down trousers and my marina wool base layer around camp and that was just warm enough I'd wear that I'd wear it to sleeping because I only took this with my alp kit 400 which is um free season I've had it for ages mate it's hemorrhaged quite a lot of feathers there's not you know it's definitely doesn't go down to as cold as it says it does anymore but that coupled with these and I was like I was I was warm I was never cold never cold I was a bit hot at times actually right what am I doing putting that way just chuck it over there what's in here right into the brain of the situation this is this was brilliant this was my new this was my water filter I saw your mini squeeze and this knock that I pronounce it knock just water carrier just so glad I upgraded to this because that other plastic one takes ages to fill up just by the by the by the by the mouth of it um so this one you can just slide that off there and just like a dry bag we roll it that enables you to just fill it really quickly and then back on and then a way to just filter it that was a great a great addition we're going for it that way long titanium spoon by turks I've always just gone with little ones for I'm not going to get I've always just gone for like little spoons and just cut the bag and it out that but I thought I can't bother with that if we're going to be doing it for as long as we're going to do it and so I splashed out and got one of these and I'm glad I did spoon and then kek shovel that came in handy obs kek shovel um well the bog roll and bog rolling wipes are no longer in there they got used but yeah that's just my I've seen a lot I was floating my idea of getting one of them I think they made a aluminium I'm not sure the metal ones but I've heard people say that you can't get a good grip on them and the ground up there is you know some of it's quite hard to dig and even this with handle you've got to really get into ground to to create a scat hole so at least it does have a handle and that's why I prefer this over the other other lightweight options that sounded quite professional didn't it almost right let's bring it back down professional is is my camp shoes top tip what other sorry if you can hear that chain sorry background that's just people making a living can't begrudge that people grafting these are just hovis like small bread bags and so instead of taking flip flops or crocs or down booties or whatever I took these and then so I would get to camp wet socks off wet shoes off let the feet air out and then on with the pair of dry me dry socks oh it's a good feeling just thinking about it now it's good and then if I needed to go if I needed to go out anywhere or leave the tent put the bag over the sock and then just into the shoe have the shoe really loose and it's just like a different bit of footwear it feels really comfy now these aren't getting wet your feet aren't getting wet and these are in a super lightweight so that's a good little hikers tip the rain cover I got a new rain cover I got the actual rain cover for that osprey which is brilliant because it's got a it's got a clip that goes around the back of it and clips that goes over your your hip belt so it's not going to go anywhere and that worked a treat glad I got that what else is in here one thing and my this is the Patagonia bum bag just for fun and whatever in there it's super lightweight and I and I used that for the first few days and then I sacked it I put it away because I thought I would I thought I would have used it more but I didn't and so in hindsight I maybe wouldn't have took that right and the one of the reasons why I didn't use it as much was because I use this on chest pouch which I used all the time let's have a quick look in here what have we got we've got these OR sun gloves which came in really handy because it's quite easy to get some blisters when you're hiking using your hiking poles all day something like that isn't it so they came in handy just for holding the hiking poles it gives your hands a bit of protection and you're not going to sweat because they're really light and they afford you a little bit of protection from midges if they're out and about this is just my waterproof carrier for my phone because I was using my phone as my GPS so that when it rained it was going there around my neck and I can still use it but yeah so one of the most important things is being ready for when it rained so everything I had and I had just a system for when it rained everything would be very quickly waterproofed so going into here because this itself isn't waterproof so I kept a second one of these sponges just in the bottom which would soak up the water when it rained and then I could just ring that out so that would take all the water away from from my stuff that was in here which was also in a sandwich bag and in another sandwich bag these are mushroom tablets which I just took as a supplement iberproven they were still in there because it started to me feet were hurting so I just had them munching on them my compass for my map reading taking bearings and just just keeping it real and then a super light seat of summit head net midge head net very small very lightweight my torch my new torch this is the petzl bindi really lightweight I think I only used it once or twice because you're so tired by and a day you're not staying up until it gets dark most of the time and that's rechargeable it's got a red light flashing light quite powerful then you can turn it around like that and lock it in place so that you're not going to press any of the buttons which is a good feature glad I got that for future wild camps and maybe in autumn and winter but for for long distance hiking you do you even need it just use the phone on you I'm in the light on your phone so I didn't really use that a lot at all but I'm glad I had it with me and that went in there my watch which I had on which is just my Ironman watch is just to stop me looking at my phone and whatever and then I had a dry bag in there as well which held everything in the dry bag also I had my camera in there camera phone and everything so it would just fold it up with a sponge underneath and all in there as well so it's like belt and bridges because some days it was just etching it down man power bank was just the anchor power bank to keep my phone keeping my phone charged was the my priority because that wasn't used that as a GPS and obviously to keep in contact with people as and when you get signal speaking of which this is the Garmin in reach mini you put an app on your phone and then you can I think you get about 10 messages a month it links up to its own satellite it's pricey and then once you've bought it then you have to buy a subscription to it as well but when you don't have signal and you're out and about it's good just to be able to text your loved ones and just say like this is my location send them your locale and just say this is where I am I'm okay I used it for that a couple of times I also used it to get a weather report when I'd pitch my tent during the day when it was the weather had turned on me and I was starting to worry and I was trying to plan my way over this ridge so I got a quick weather report on this and then made my decisions based on that so yeah it's a necessary thing really I think because if you fall over it middle of nowhere and you do your leg in you've got no signal it's not a very popular trail in certain parts you know because you've gone off on your own you've chosen your own path and it's nice to know that if you just press the sos on here that it the emergency services will will pick it up and come directly to you and I'm gonna use that I'm gonna put that on my fishing float as well when I go spear fishing so it's a worthwhile investment I think yeah I didn't take any smidge or anything I just took my head net and sprayed my clothes before I went with anti-tick stuff tick bug stuff in here I've got a oh god I just had a little travel toothpaste bamboo toothbrush and a little thing of hand sanitizer I wouldn't took that man I only used it once just because I thought why not but it's not I wasn't around many people so I wouldn't took that I don't think a spare lighter in there this is where we get a little bit hippy on this one look these are CBD patches like nicotine patches but for CBD to help with your joints and help you sleep and whatnot I've got my first aid kit which is just in a sandwich bag which has compedes in there which I used a lot of um plasters it's got um what have we got anodine for joint pain I never used them um I have a profen which I used um anti-diarrhea tablets just in case didn't use them but you don't be getting the shits while you're out and about some tweezers for all sorts of reasons and my tick key this is the tick key you get your tick in there and then just twist it pull it off that got used quite a bit quite a few ticks on me and me here's mirror which I used just to get into them I had to look places just for tick extraction and tick checking and I took a also had a little bottle of CBD oil that I plowed through on my journey just again to help with joint pain and and help sleep and stuff in the bag as well there was a I've got like a heavy duty baggy bag which I used as a liner but everything went in that bag and then so that was waterproof everything was in its own everything of importance was in its own dry bag inside there and then and then I had the rain cover over the top so nothing got wet except me a little bit because you're walking through rivers and all that gear out here I might do a separate video on the clothes that I took and a more in-depth video on things like the Garmin in-reach mini shoes some of the big players I think that's everything and I hope I've not missed anything out um a special shout out to Nordic Outdoors for hooking me up with these these socks and the merino base layer they were brilliant so thank you they've they've really come through from me there and they've offered a five percent discount all across the store for anything except for axes and tents just use the code HAZE5 at checkout and you'll get five percent off all your gear so thanks Nordic Outdoors for that they're a look they're a sound company run by sound people um I hope I've not missed anything out if I have I'm sorry if you want to be notified when I upload the trek video just click the subscribe button down below and the bell notification and then you'll get a pop-up letting you know when I've next uploaded right hopefully I've not forgot out right thanks very much for watching and I'll see you soon take care oh legs are still a bit tender like see you later don't show them don't show them joseph's technique on a blanket you'll love it see you later