Gear for a dayhike

Spring is here and a lot of people will be heading out on hiking and camping trips. Let's take a few minutes and talk gear people like to bring.
If there is a backpack involved, it has a rain poncho. This covers the shelter aspect. Here in Texas, we sometimes get thermal showers during the summer. The sky could be blue and not a single cloud. Then, within a matter or minutes we can have a violent downpour.

Water filter, such as the katadyn vario, or Saywer pointone.

Snacks.

Matches and or lighter.

TOPO map, compass, GPS.

All of this is subjective to what the person is doing. I rarely if ever hike in a park or where there is a trail. As shown in the video, the vast majority of my time is spent in the woods.

In the video is a Glock 19. Because it was not in a holster, there was no round in the chamber.

Knife should be a given. On this trip I carried a swiss army knife.

Sometimes I will carry a stove, fuel and mountain house freeze dried meal. However, 2018 I may be leaving the stove at home and take some Sopakco MREs. These are not military grade MREs. They have just the basics for a single meal.

First aid kit is missing. I have a small kit, but it was left out of this trip. The most important thing in my first aid kit is a tick removal tool.

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Gear for a dayhike