Last Minute Gear Items; Check Your List Twice

[trophyhill]

What are you adding or replacing at the 11th hour? I just replaced my 3L Camelbak with a 3L UL Platypus when I discovered the Camelbak leaking on my antelope hunt a couple weekends ago. That’s the 2nd Camelbak that has leaked in 15 years. Not a dig on Camelbak. I’m hard on gear and I probably just wasn’t careful enough. How bout you? Are you scrambling for anything?

 

[nnmarcher]

I picked up a pair of tire chains this weekend after seeing how much rain we've been getting. Hoping I don't need to break them out, but I'd rather have them and not need them!

 

[Dakota Dude]

I've checked three times to make sure all my tags are in my pack. I mostly day trip, so there isn't a lot of stuff to double check.

 

[Mighty Mouse]

Aired up my sleeping pad last weekend and put a sandbag on it overnight to check for slow leaks...it was dead flat by morning. Fortunately I have a second pad that did pass the leak test.

 

[Jeffro]

I just received my air compressor and tire plug kit. I get pretty far out in the woods sometimes and wanted to be better prepared for tire failures.

 

[Luked]

For me it was my pack. Im looking to get something other than what I thought was going to work well.
Packed mine all up and did not care for it at all.
So im looking to switch packs but i still got a few weeks before we leave.

 

[John87]

I picked up a pair of tire chains this weekend after seeing how much rain we've been getting. Hoping I don't need to break them out, but I'd rather have them and not need them!

Same here, I ordered 2 sets of Z-Chain cables, I’ve been told the road to the area I’m headed for 1st Rifle gets pretty bad and chains are required.

 

[trophyhill]

I've checked three times to make sure all my tags are in my pack. I mostly day trip, so there isn't a lot of stuff to double check.

10-4 on that. My tags are in my pack as well with an ink pen.

 

[Dos Perros]

I've checked three times to make sure all my tags are in my pack. I mostly day trip, so there isn't a lot of stuff to double check.

Dude you just saved me! Haven't put my tag in my gear yet.

 

[trophyhill]

Aired up my sleeping pad last weekend and put a sandbag on it overnight to check for slow leaks...it was dead flat by morning. Fortunately I have a second pad that did pass the leak test.

2 years ago I had a Sea to Summit Ether Light that would be pretty flat each morning. I went back to Xped last year with a 9R rating. Great for truck camp but bulky and heavy in the backcountry, so I bought another Xped with a 2.9R value. The green one for this years backcountry excursions into the bush.

 

[sodaksooner]

My tags are still on my bathroom counter. They go in my bino case. I see them every morning and think that I need to make sure I get them in there.

 

[5MilesBack]

I just replaced my 3L Camelbak with a 3L UL Platypus when I discovered the Camelbak leaking on my antelope hunt a couple weekends ago.

Probably just an o-ring. Call them and they'll send you an o-ring pack for all of them.

 

[11boo]

Last minute critical gear coming together.

 

[11boo]

Final check of “the box”. Plenty of MEG. Cleared for launch.

 

[manitou1]

I picked up a pair of tire chains this weekend after seeing how much rain we've been getting. Hoping I don't need to break them out, but I'd rather have them and not need them!

Yeah... thanks for the reminder. I need to throw mine in the truck.

 

[manitou1]

Final check of “the box”. Plenty of MEG. Cleared for launch.

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I see you are being optimistic about filling the tag! A little celebratory beverage!

 

[11boo]

It’s only for medicinal purposes.

 

[manitou1]

I've checked three times to make sure all my tags are in my pack. I mostly day trip, so there isn't a lot of stuff to double check.

Ha! I am so OCD that my tags go in a baggy and into my bino pack the day I receive them. Been carrying them all summer, lol.
Bear, mtn lion, any elk, cow/calf elk, antelope and muley.
Man, I need to get busy!

 

[TX_Diver]

I have a brand new pair of boots in the truck... And 3 old pairs. They are a backup to the backups based on some blisters I've been fighting.

 

[RilePrecise]

Super useful/helpful thread, thanks fellas!