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

Background Information	Date of Hike	June 20
	Weather	Mostly Sunny, upper 50s to lower 60s
	Location	Mount Jackson & Mount Webster
	Length	6.3 miles, about 6 hours on the trail
Equipment	Clothes (packed)	Long sleeve fleece pullover Fleece hat Wind / rain pants (coated nylon) Wind / rain jacket (CB Sports Gore-Tex anaorak w/ hood)
	Clothes (worn)	North Face Tek-Ware t-shirt EMS Convertible hiking pants (worn as shorts all day) Thor-Lo medium weight hiking socks Merril Wilderness (Black Death) Boots Old favorite US Army issue "Boonie" jungle hat
	Other Equipment	PUR Hiker Water Filter 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 River crossing shoes Pack-Towl 3 feet of toilet paper Ka-Bar USMC knife Princeton-Tec Headlamp
	Food	2 Chewy Granola bars 1 Power Bar 1 can mixed fruit in lite syrup 1/2 sandwich bag of peanuts 2 cans devilled Spam 1 sandwich bag of saltines 1/2 sandwich bag of jelley beans
	Water	2 liter Platypus, chilled 1 liter wide-mouth Nalgene bottle of Gatorade Note: I drank all of this and we used the filter to restock near the end of the hike.

All of this was packed in my Jansport Cirque pack, with room to spare. Total weight was about 15 lbs.