>>2589818decent beginner's or european's setup. hard to tell which you are.
you should probably consider bringing food that most of its weight isn't water with zero nutritional value.
get some pepperoni, a bag of potato chips, something like that.
learn how to read a nutrition label. the single best advice i can give to any newbie.
>And the multi-tool is useful for opening cans and pulling hot things off the fire.personally i use a bandana or silicone pot gripper and a can opener for that.
no need to re-invent the wheel anon.
i would consider bringing either a can opener and silicone pot gripper with the knife. or leaving the knife at home and just taking the leatherman for everything. a knife isn't exactly a tool that needs redundancy. the knife i go hiking with is twice my age.
>>2590207>And there's nothing wrong with Ni-MH batteries. I'm still using some 12-year-old Sanyo Eneloops, which hold a charge just fine. they're acceptable if you never hike when its cold.
>I've had a Fanix, an Olight, and various other no-name Chinese flashlights fail on me over the years. Chinese flashlights are not reliable. And if people's documented experiences with Nitecore are anything to go by, then they are even worse in terms of reliability than Fenix and Olight. A broken flashlight, no matter how powerful or long-lasting, is useless. Which is why I use the flashlight in the picture, which is a Malkoff MDC.An unreliable Chinese Nitecore costing 1/4 of the price is not an upgrade. It's a downgrade.
only the tube on your flashlight is MITUSA. all the guts come from china, and are the same off the shelf guts chinese flashlights use. not to say it isn't higher quality. the tube is important on a waterproof light.
But if reliability is an issue you can bring 3-5 nitecote NU25 units for the same amount of weight.
The only shortcoming the NU25 has is meh water resistance and unserviceable battery, which is par for the course for a light of its size.
