GSMNP 2025

Base weight: 12.5 lb / 5.68 kg · Total weight: 22.3 lb / 10.12 kg · 47 items · Total price: $236.00

Trail: GSMNP · Season: SPRING · Duration: THREE_TO_FIVE_DAYS · Section Hike

Big 4

• Exodus with Pouch & Pockets — 19.0 oz
• Fly Creek HV UL1 — 32.0 oz
• Phantom Spark — 22.0 oz
• Ether Light XT - regular mummy — 17.3 oz
• Aero Down - deluxe — 6.7 oz — $90.00

Clothing

• Alpha LT - medium — 13.5 oz
• rain skirt — 2.5 oz — $40.00
• Merino 250 Wind 1/2-zip - large — 11.0 oz
• Quandary - short — 10.9 oz — $100.00
• webbed — 3.0 oz
• crew - sleeping — 1.1 oz
• camp shoes — 8.2 oz
• buff — 1.0 oz
• mosquito headnet — 0.7 oz
• beanie — 1.6 oz

Clothing (Worn)

• Nine Trails - medium — 0.0 oz
• Merino Tee - medium — 0.0 oz
• wool crew — 0.0 oz
• Sense Ride — 0.0 oz
• LT5 — 0.0 oz
• hat, handkerchief, sunglasses, knife, watch — 0.0 oz

Cook System

• Gigapower Manual — 2.4 oz
• windscreen — 1.8 oz
• pot & lid — 3.2 oz
• coffee mug — 3.8 oz
• spoon — 0.4 oz
• squeeze — 2.5 oz
• 2L water bag — 2.7 oz
• mini bic — 0.4 oz
• mini knife — 0.6 oz
• aquatabs — 0.2 oz
• 1L Smartwater bottle — 1.2 oz
• 16oz ultralight bottle — 2.0 oz — $6.00

Fuel, Food, Water

• liter water — 35.2 oz
• Giga110 fuel — 7.5 oz
• 5× food (daily avg) — 21.0 oz
• 5× recoverrite pouch — 1.8 oz

Essentials

• toothbrush, toothpaste, contact stuff, floss, sunscreen, comb — 4.0 oz
• wet wipes — 1.0 oz
• TP & hand sanitizer — 2.5 oz
• deuce — 0.6 oz
• Suunto MTB — 1.2 oz
• binder clip — 0.0 oz

Electronics

• Storm - with batteries — 4.0 oz
• inReach Explorer + — 8.7 oz
• iPhone 15 pro — 6.6 oz
• ID / cash / credit card — 0.3 oz

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