>>932722Thanks!
It's totally worth the $60. I was unemployed when I decided to throw down for it. No regrets.
I live in Eastern Washington, but I used this exclusively for three months while I hitch-hiked down to California and back last year. Now that I think about it, I don't remember being caught in heavy rain once, just a light rain while I was stuck in... Sacramento, I think. I just pulled my hat down over my eyes and went back to sleep, was dry by the time I woke up. If you're expecting rain you might want to have some sort of tarp, but Tyvek is designed to protect million dollar investments from water damage, so there is that.
As far as other gear goes, I had to open everything up and empty my pockets. There's a couple handkerchiefs, white for washing my face and using to stay cool, black for washing elsewhere, eight packs of MRE peanut butter at 250 calories each (my personal choice for emergency ration), PVC fishing spindle with tackle packed inside, Sawyer mini water filter + dirty bag, 2L Camelbak, knife, and lighter. The handkerchiefs, knife and lighter are kept on me, everything else goes either in or on the Camelbak bag. There's also a small med kit which includes a vac-pack mini-BIC, buried in my winter gear I don't feel like digging out right now, also, I keep a razor blade and a frezenel lens in my wallet.
Food is typically cat-tail, trout, thimbleberry, huckleberry, pinenut, and pretty much anything else I find along the way. I'll probably start carrying a few sheets of aluminium foil since I've started getting into mushrooms and don't want to carry a cook kit just for that.
