I prefer to hang food, so enough paracord to hang food. It protects it from mice as much as bears. I bag each day's food, except evening meal, in a gallon ziplock. All I have to do is grab a bag each morning from where I have it hanging then rehang. I store all of the day's trash in that ziplock and hang it that evening when I retrieve the evening freeze dried meal for cooking.
I prefer to bring a toothbrush and paste, but the packs of little flavored disposable brushes work also. Floss is nice to have also.
Wet wipes or baby wipes are a must, but they are relatively heavy. I carry them anyway.
I like dry socks. Gaitors and extra socks help.
I don't have a fire very often (it's usually too dry in archery) but I like to have Firestarter. Cotton balls saturated in Vaseline and stored in a ziplock work pretty well. I spent most of my last backpack trip avoiding the rain, so a couple small fires were nice.
Store mouth calls in more than one location. I've made the mistake of having all my mouthcalls in one pouch on a day hunt once and lost the pouch busting through brush in the dark on the way up the mountain. Not having a call in my mouth probably cost me a shot at a cow.
I like to have several pieces of hard candy or cough drops in a pocket that I can reach. It seems to never fail that I need to cough at the worst times.
As stated above:
Wind Checker is a must. A lighter works in a pinch but I prefer the squeeze bottles of powder.
