My trip in Newfoundland was heavily impacted by the loss of all my checked-in luggage, i.e. most of my stuff. One of the things I lost was my paper maps and one of the things I saved was my smartphone.
Navigation set, 20th & 21st centuries
I could have worked hard to get new (paper) maps before I started hiking but I had so many things to replace that this one was not high on the scales: there was a valid alternative.
This is one of those small things that matter from a packing efficiency perspective. It is actually a very silly, common sense little topic but where market trends may easily lead us to the dark side.
I had this revelation moment once during the early days of my hiking career. It was a very silly thing but it was symbolic. It opened a big door.
There’s nothing really fancy in the layering paradigm. In essence, it’s what many of us already do in the urban environment as a daily routine in response to changing conditions like getting into the office block: layer down one coat.
In the backcountry, there are additional factors though:
Warming up cold hands, armpit technique
Hands usually have a problem when working in sustained cold and wet conditions. Mine surely do. I say “working”: it should be fine if you can keep the expected activity level with hands in pockets but this is often not the case.
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