Labrador Packing List

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Gear - motorcycle

Gear - misc

Gear - electrical & computer

  • ASUS EEE PC computer
  • 12v adapter for EEE PC (for charging while riding)
  • Mains adapter for EEE PC
  • iPhone 3GS
  • Dock cable for iPhone
  • Repair manual for bike (electronic)
  • Small inverter to get 120V
  • Bluetooth mouse (?)

Clothes

  • Jeans
  • Jean shorts
  • Underwear x 3 (Mainly Exoficio)
  • Underarmour shirts, various light x 3
  • Underarmour coldgear shirt
  • Underarmour coldgear leggings
  • Patagonia light cotton leggings
  • Floppy hat that packs small
  • Socks, regular x 2
  • Socks, motorcycle x 3
  • 1 pair of light mesh shoes to wear around camp
  • Bug netting for my head (I hear the black flies are killer)

Camping

Cooking

Food

  • A few meals worth of freeze-dried food
  • Water flavorings like Crystal Light
  • Food picked up during the trip
  • Diner food as I move around
  • Cans of food / bread/ ramen picked up from gas stations and convenience stores
  • Ground coffee to start off the mornings with
  • Flask of Johnny Walker Black to finish off nights with

Tools & Parts

Still TBD

  • What camera(s) and/or lenses to bring

Notes

It seems like a lot, but it’s not more than we took to Alaska last year. On that trip we had gear for two instead of just one. We used most of the gear. The gear we didn’t wind up using is the stuff you don’t want to use anyway – tire plugging, first aid and the like. We even used some of the tools to make a screwed up wheel a bit better. It looks like a lot, but there’s a lot of nesting going on.Last time all of the tools and cooking stuff went into the (smaller) left pannier. The clothes for both of us mostly went in the right. Any overflow went into a duffel on the back. There’s actually a chance I won’t even need the duffel, but it’s on the list for now. Overall things fit nicely last time and this time should be a lot easier.We learned that we missed some stuff, like clothes line and clothes pins. We found out how nice it is to have when we had a camp site that had a line that someone left. No pins, but better than nothing. Another thing we found lacking was our ability to make firewood; the Leatherman does not cut it when talking about logs. We managed to make a fire one night, but it was a royal pain. Up in the Yukon the camp had logs ready for splitting, but we couldn’t do it with the tools we had.If anything’s forgotten, well, that’s what credit cards are for.

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