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What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Let’s roll with part 2 of this super awesome series of threads on “what’s in your elk pack”. What do you cats have in your elk pack for a sleep system? For the purpose of these threads, let’s assume we’re talking about pack in hunts.
I carry the following:
Tent – Nemo Hornet 2 Person w/footprint
Bag – VIAM Outdoors 10 degree quilt
Pad – Klymit Insulated Static V
Pillow – Klymit (can’t remember the style/name)
Chair (if I’m feeling energetic) – Wildhorn Terralite
Cot (if I’m feeling really energetic) – Desert Walker Outdoor UL
I may end up packing in my Luxe Megahorn Tipi this year so hunting partner and I can camp/hunt in style (and have a bit more protection against the late September Idaho wilderness area weather). Of course with the Tipi goes the Lite Outdoors Titanium stove.
Well, what's in your elk pack for a sleep system?
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Seek outside cimmaron
Optional medium so stove
Sierra designs 12 deg dri down bag
Thermarest neoair xlite
7x3' plastic sheet
Clothes for pillow
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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BA Mystic UL 15
BA Q-Core SLX
Sea to Summit Aeros Premium pillow
Kelty Gunnison 2 person tent (current), want BA Copper Hotel HV 2 person
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Kifaru mega tarp
LO stove if needed
Bearpaw cuben bivy
EE quilt
Xtherm pad
Big sky dream pillow
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Elk, deer Backcountry:
Kifaru Tut or by myself the Paratipi
OLite 18" stove
Sea2Summit 12 deg down bag non-mummy & inflatable pillow
Borah Gear bivy bag side zip
REI insulated tubular air pad
Helinox backpacking lite chair
Merino skull cap, warm wooly cushy sleep sox.
Tyvek ground cloth
sometimes: Thermarest ultra lite backpacking cot.
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Cheap 1" roll sleep pad. Sunbirds sleeping bag to 40 degree. Tent, tarp. Protection from the boogeyman. Flashlight. Pack for pillow. Should be good eh?
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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SO tipi and xl stove, montbell spiral stretch 0 degree, exp downmat7 pad.
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Camofire tarp, or my old no name "two man" tent. (That only one man fits in). Wiggys bag and pad.
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Tent: Golite Shangri-La 3 with nest and tyvek ground cloth.
Sleep pad: Thermorest neoair xlite.
Sleeping bag: Enlightened Equipment Convert 10 degree 850 down.
Pillow: klymit X Recon.
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Hmm... so many options to list! Ha.
Sleeping bag: Mt Hardware 15 degree down bag
Sleeping pad: Exped Winterlite
Pillow: Sea to Summit inflatable (best 40 bux spent)
Shelter early season w/no bugs: jimmytarps Skyline tarp
Shelter early season with bugs/scorpions/snakes: Big Agnes Copper Spur U/L2
Shelter late season: SO Rediff with Outdoorlite XL stove
Tyvek ground sheet goes everywhere.
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Shelter: Easton Rimrock 2P
Sleeping Bag: KUIU 30 Degree
Sleeping Pad: Therma-Rest Pro-Lite
Pillow: Sea to Summit Inflatable
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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REI Half Dome Plus(room for 2) or a GoLite Shangri La 5(room for 3 plus gear) depending how many people are going.
Marmot Sorcerer 15 degree bag soon to be upgraded to an EE quilt.
Sea to Summit pillow
Big Agnes Q Core pad
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Shelter: Either Big Agnes FlyCreek UL 3, or Seek Outside tipi w/stove. Depends on season and weather.
Sleeping Bag: Feathered Friends, 20 degree rating
Pad: Thermarest NeoAir
Cot: Thermarest Ultralite....depends on length of trip.
Pillow: Sea to summit
I'll sometimes pack up a chair as well, have a variety of backpacking chairs from REI.
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Tent: Go-Lite SL4 or paratarp
Pad: BA insulated air core
Quilt: EE 20degree
Pillow: ExPed inflatable
Bivy: TiGoat Omni Raven
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Shelter: 20 year old North face 2p
Sleeping Bag: Mountain Hardware 0 degree or 30 degree
Pad: Big Agnes Q Core
Pillow: Sea to summit
I accept the weight penalty of the 2p tent because I like to keep my pack and bow secure inside the tent.
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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REI quarter dome 2 tent
REI 15 degree treated down long wide (forget the model name)
Exped synmat hyperlite med wide
Exped pillow
Just over 7 lbs total
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Shelters depend on weather and if I'm solo. Tarp, badger hole, 4 man tipi or 8 man tipi. If snakes, scorpions, or big scary spiders are an issue a eureka zeuss II.
Bag is most likely an EE enigma 0° quilt or a kifaru slik bag for hunts that may get real western.
Tyvek ground cloth always
Pad is currently a big Agnes q core SL but I'm sure by season that will change.
When needed an 18" kifaru Smith stove
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Tent - 1) Tigoat Bivy and tarp or
2) BA Copper Spur 2 or
3) Hilleberg Nallo 3 GT
Bag - Old Marmot 30 degreee 850 down
Pad - 1) Klymit Inertia x frame or
2) Klymit Insulated Static V
No pillow
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An elk. Everything else is still on the mountain.
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Re: What's in your elk pack part 2 - Sleep System
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Fun to see everyone's system. Thanks Wapiti.
Shelter: Hennessy Expedition Ultralight Hammock -or- Marmot 2p tent if it's really cold
Bag: Mountain Hardwear 20° down
Pad: Thermarest Prolite 3/4 length -or- Prolite 4 full-length if it's really really cold
Pillow: Sea-to-summit inflatable
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