Hike-NH.com: What to Pack on a Dayhike

Background Information	Date of Hike	July 18
	Weather	Hazy sun. 95 in Concord, 85 - 90 in the mountains.
	Location	Mount Flume and Mount Liberty
	Length	8+ miles, about 10 hours on the trail
Equipment	Clothes (packed)	Wind / rain jacket (CB Sports Gore-Tex anaorak w/ hood)
	Clothes (worn)	North Face Tek-Ware t-shirt North Face Shorts Thor-Lo medium weight hiking socks Merril Wilderness (Black Death) Boots Old favorite US Army issue "Boonie" jungle hat (didn't last long)
	Other Equipment	PUR Hiker Water Filter (very important!) Safety / Repair kit Waterproof Matches Tinder (Dryer lint in a waterproof container) Strong nylon thread 2 heavy duty needles (kept w/ thread spool in an old 35mm film canister) Space Blanket Repair Cement (strong all purpose "Barge" cement) 12" of duct tape, rolled around a pencil stub 1^st aid kit (Wilderness Systems w/ extra blister treatments & medicines) Leatherman tool Maps of trail & area (generated w/ TOPO!) Silver Ranger compass Bug Spray (Ben's 100) Sunscreen (Coppertone Sport SPF 25) Blistex Pack-Towl (soaked up quarts of sweat!) 3 feet of toilet paper Princeton-Tec Headlamp
	Food	2 Chewy Granola bars 1 Power Bar 1/2 sandwich bag of peanuts 1/2 sandwich bag of jelley beans 1 MRE (beef stew)
	Water	2 liter Platypus, chilled 1 liter wide-mouth Nalgene bottle of Gatorade 1 liter wide mouth Nalgene bottle of water, chilled Note: During this terribly hot hike, I drank the 2L platypus, refilled it, then drank it again. I also finished the gatorade and the 1L Nalgene bottle of water. Then I refilled the Nalgene water bottle and drank 3/4 of it. That's a total of 7 liters in 1 day. Then we stopped at McDonalds and I finished a super-size Coke, then refilled that for the drive home.

All of this was packed in my Jansport Cirque pack, with room to spare. Total weight was about 12 lbs.