Packing list for a 5 day hike in Hornstrandir

Be prepared and check my list of gear I took for our 5 days hike in Hornstrandir in 2018. You can find the detail of this trip in this post: Plan a 5 days hiking trip in Hornstrandir – Iceland
As I don’t have the list of Susanna’s gear, I talk about the equipment I had on myself in this page . Obviously some gear such as tent, cooking gear or food were shared between Susanna and myself.

Gear that were in my backpack

In italic I indicate the gear I consider as optional or as extra.
Of course you can consider Photography gear as optional.

Bag

• Backpack Osprey Atmos AG 65 L (2190gr)
• A plastic water pouch that fits into the backpack Source 2l (232gr)
• 2 bags for clean and dirty clothes (47gr each)
• small bags to sort things (2x10gr)

Sleeping

• Tent Vaude lizard sul 2-3P (1500gr)
• Sleeping mat Exped synmat hl lw (554gr)
• Sleeping bag Mountain Equipment Xero 200 6C (665gr)
• Undermat for the whole tent Exped Doublemat Evazote (290gr)
• Silk Liner if you need some extra degrees of confort Sea to summit (138gr)
• Pillow Sea to summit Aeros ultralight (70gr)

Cooking

• MSR WhisperLite Stove (1150gr including bottle, fuel and pump)
• Pot, spatula, titanium cutlery, towel, sponge (580gr)
• A few bags for garbage (40gr)
• Small Victorinox Swiss knife (58gr)
• Plastic mug – 300ml (49gr)
• Thermos 500ml (273gr)
• Reusable coffee filter (11gr)
• Lighter (23gr)
• Water filter Sawyer (50gr)

Food

• 2 liter water
• 6 Expedition food High Energy dehydrated meals – ordered on basecampfood (~150gr each)
• Oats portions for breakfast
• Dry fruits, nuts
• Protein bars (about 2 per day)
• Tea and coffee
• Dry milk
• Cookies
• Sugar
• Spices mix for camping
• Wine (2 glasses equivalent)

Clothes

• Lightweight hiking trousers (300gr)
• 2 t-shirts (160gr)
• 1 long sleep shirt (260gr)
• Cintamani hooded tecnostretch jacket (~400gr)
• 3 pairs of socks (3x60gr)
• 1 warm pair of socks for sleeping (100gr)
• 2 Boxer for hiking lowe alpine (90gr)
• 1 Boxer Icebreaker for sleeping (68gr)
• Leightweight down jacket (320gr)
• Pair of gloves (66gr)
• Winter hat (47gr)
• Warm underwear pant (150gr)
• Warm underwear t-shirt (240gr)
• Rain and windproof jacket (406gr)
• Rain trousers goretex (254gr)
• Fjällräven Abisko Pack Cap (40gr)
• Sunglasses + case (116gr)
• The case is actually twice the sunglasses weight

Hiking

• Leki Carbon Titanium Adjustable hiking poles (422gr)
• Hiking shoes Meindl Matrei GTX (~750gr)

Navigation and electronic

• Map of Hornstrandir (87gr)
• I used Komoot app on a Blackview BV6000 which I use often for hiking. It has more battery life, is shockproof and waterproof (254gr)
  Don’t forget to download Komoot offline maps.
• I had my regular phone Huawei P9 as backup (144gr)
• 2 usb cables (micro usb and usb C) (47gr)
• I also had my Fenix 3 hr (88gr) with the charger (30gr)
• A solar charger Xtorm AM114 (6000mAh) (284gr)
  I would recommend a charger with bigger solar surface to have more power capacity.

Toiletry

• Toilet paper (100gr)
• Sea to summit wilderness wipes – 12pces (93gr)
• Sunscreen (66gr)
• Tooth brush, tooth past, soap (~300gr)
• Medium synthetic towel (190gr)
• Hand sanitiser (95gr)
• Small synthetic towel to dry feet after river crossing (102gr)
• Sea to summit Alloy pocket trowel (for toilet) (100gr)

Photography and optics

• My Fujifilm X-Pro2 camera (495gr)
• Fujinon XF 18-135mm (490gr)
• Samyang 12mm (260gr)
• Soft camera bag (200gr)
• Drone Mavic Air (~600gr)
• Binoculars (650gr) a lighter version could be enough

Other

• Passport and wallet as I prefer to have them with me (150gr)
• 1st aid kit include compeed (235gr)
• Medicine (Panadol, Imodium, Carbolevure) (35gr)
• Rescue blanket (43gr)
• Nok feet cream (85gr)
• Insect repellent (50gr)