Packing List Berge-Seen-Trail 2018

Our list of things of uttermost importance – or what we believe it to be (will be updated after finishing the trail with our experiences):

It might look like a lot but you won’t believe that this all fits in one single backpack (ok, food, meds and the other stuff will be divided in both our backpacks but still… 😉 ).

• Clothes
• Toiletries
• Food
• Meds
• Electronic Devices
• Other Stuff

Clothes:

• • • hiking shoes (and a spare pair of lightweight merino wool shoes for times when we don’t wear our backpacks)
    • slippers for the huts, for bathing etc. (we chose to take crocs with us which are light and easy to clean)
    • hiking jacket (from Maier Sports, water column: 5000mm)
    • 1 fleece vest with long sleeves
    • 1 merino wool vest (from Dilling again) for me
    • 2 long shirts (merino wool)
    • 1 short shirt (merino wool)
    • 1 pair of long leggings (for me for really cold days in the mountains and for sleeping)
    • 1 pair of hiking trousers with zip-off legs (for Felix: a spare pair of hiking trousers)
    • 1 pair of long leggings from Dragonfly (for me; thin fabric, quick to dry and feels like a second skin)
    • gloves (it surely will get cold in September in the mountains!)
      
    • bicycle gloves (I didn’t use them last year but perhaps this year with having some routes that are secured with steel cable they could come in handy)
      
    • buff bandana
    • 3 pairs of hiking socks (merino wool)
    • underwear (me: two sports tops which I can also use for swimming and two panties; Felix: two panties – all panties are made of merino wool)
    • swimwear (one pair of swim pants from Dragonfly; the tops I’ll take with me can also be used for swimming therefore no other swimming top is necessary)
    • rain poncho
    • baseball cap/sun hat

Toiletries:

• • • tooth brush (small foldable ones where the handle at the same time is the case to store the brush), tooth paste and dental floss
    • soap from Dr. Bronner (to be used as shower gel for body and face, as deodorant, for Felix for shaving, as substitute for washing powder – you can even use it as tooth paste but needs getting used to; really check out Dr. Bronner, it’s organic, sustainable, fair etc.)
    • face cream (50ml for 6 weeks for me)
    • small hand lotion
    • lip balm (also from Dr. Bronner)
    • sun blocker
    • shampoo in a small bottle (my hair is used to being washed only once a week so a small amount is all I need)
    • horse balm to cool the feet in the evenings and against sore muscles
    • a cream for protection against blisters (Compeed)
    • comb and hair tie for me
    • disinfection wipes

Food:

Since we intend to have breakfast and dinner as often as possible at our destinations (and lunch on our way where possible) we decided to go for healthy but lightweight snacks only in addition:

• • • cashew nuts and dates – all from Keimling
    • dextrose
    • tea bags (if we happen to have tea cooking facilities in our accomodations)
    • chewing gum
    • water bottles: 1,5l and 1l
    • thermos flask: 0,6l

Meds:

• • • cough tablets (Bronchostop)
    • meds for a sore throat (Dexalgin)
    • painkillers (Mexalen)
    • wound and healing ointment (Bepanthen)
    • meds against diarrhea (Bioflorin, Enterobene)
    • pollen allergy medicine and hyaluronate eye drops (Desloratadin and Artelac Spash – life’s not easy being allergic 😉 )
    • magnesium supplements
    • tick tong
    • plasters (normal ones; some for blisters = the one and only Compeed; Nexcare strips)
    • cooling gel against insect bites (Insecticum) – it might be September but CONSTANT VIGILENCE as far as mosquitos are concerned 😉 (oh please, tell me you got this little hint!)
    • desinfectant (Octenisept)
    • kinesio taping (1 roll)

Electronic devices:

• digi-cam
• headtorch (for mountain huts, in emergency cases etc. – e+lite by Petzl which is very lightweight and easy to store and pack away)
• smartphone
• solar powerbank (for emergency use to recharge smartphones etc.)
• normal earphones and bluetooth earphones
• normal small powerbank for charging a smartphone on the way
• e-reader (well, I can’t live without books – so, not without my Kindle 😉 )
• charger for electronic devices (easy and lightweight since all electronic devices now use micro USB)

Other Stuff: