Expert Backpacking Habits EVERY Beginner Should Master
One key thing experienced backpackers do is develop good habits for packing, staying organized, and being efficient on trail to make it possible to enjoy time outside more. Here are 4 expert tips for being more efficient, and more organized as a backpacker.
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Rush Hikers tutorial. Enjoy the hike. Enjoy the stay. Everything around you and what you do. Definitely not like this. This is OCD hiking man! haha!
I see in your video 3:27 timestamp you seem to put the sleeping bag at the base of the pack without it’s sack then put the mattress and tent in their sacks on top.
Then later in the video you are packing the sleeping back in a compression sack at a campsite as one of your first steps in the morning. Do you take it of the compression sack to then add to the bottom of your pack without the compression sack. It would kind of make sense to de-loft the sleeping bag so its doesn’t take up so much space while keeping it of the sack helps it better fill the bottom of the backpack.
A fair number of folks don’t know how to start the process of organizing gear. It’s a learned skill. And typically, it will take a few trips out to figure out what works and what doesn’t for each individual.
I use some of the same advice already given in the comments, color coding, putting things in the same places whether in the bag or in the shelter, shelter easily accessible. That part I have dialed in, what I don’t have dialed in are my micro routines. I always set up my shelter first, water, wipe down and clean up if water is plentiful. I find that if I have washed the sweat and grime from my face, then I “feel” fresher and more able to complete my other camp tasks. Then to keep myself on task, I wrote out a routine, and put it in the back of a small pocket notebook, that I also use to write down trail stuff as I’m going. Sometimes I am so tired, that I just can’t “think” of what comes next. Having a task list to follow, makes sure that all of the things get done. The hope is that eventually, it will just all become second nature, but until then, the list is my back up brain, when mine is tired, dehydrated, hungry, etc.
A good way to force myself to get up is to deflate my sleeping pad. That is the point of no return to sleeping. Eat breakfast on the trail, cold or hot, to get out of camp more quickly; or people tend to linger in camp. Eating on the trail with the sunrise is awesome.