Packing

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The Ten Essentials: What to Actually Carry

The most famous checklist in the outdoors is almost a century old, and it's still the best answer to the question every new hiker asks: what should be in my pack? This is the modern, practical version: the ten systems as mountaineering tradition defined them, what each one actually looks like in a day hiker's pack in 2026, what it costs in ounces and dollars, and where you can honestly scale down without kidding yourself.

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