Planning my first solo backpacking trip

[GoSharks]

lol 60 pounds... I can usually do about a 22 pound pack or so (at its heaviest) if I'm going out for two nights. IIRC I do about 1 pound of food per day, probably less actually.

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: GoSharks
lol 60 pounds... I can usually do about a 22 pound pack or so (at its heaviest) if I'm going out for two nights. IIRC I do about 1 pound of food per day, probably less actually.

Well it depends on the pace. I'm probably not going to hike more than 5 miles a day, and that'll be mostly in spurts. Plus if I get really sore and need to take a day off/easy, no reason not to.

 

[WildHorse]

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[keird]

Alone?

Get a couple of these tourniquets. If you get an arterial bleed, apply this immediately because seconds count in austere environments. When someone says that you could fashion one from a belt or something, they're not likely going to be there. Trained medics take, on-average, 3 minutes to apply a field expedient tourniquet. You can lose a liter of circulating blood in 1 minute from a femoral bleed. You are going alone.

Edit: You'll need to be conscious to implement whatever rescue plans you plan on, too.

 

[GoSharks]

Originally posted by: keird
Alone?

Get a couple of these tourniquets. If you get an arterial bleed, apply this immediately because seconds count in austere environments. When someone says that you could fashion one from a belt or something, they're not likely going to be there. Trained medics take, on-average, 3 minutes to apply a field expedient tourniquet. You can lose a liter of circulating blood in 1 minute from a femoral bleed. You are going alone.

Edit: You'll need to be conscious to implement whatever rescue plans you plan on, too.

Arterial bleed while backpacking? Um ok.. Why don't you bring a kitchen sink too.

 

[keird]

Originally posted by: GoSharks

Originally posted by: keird
Alone?

Get a couple of these tourniquets. If you get an arterial bleed, apply this immediately because seconds count in austere environments. When someone says that you could fashion one from a belt or something, they're not likely going to be there. Trained medics take, on-average, 3 minutes to apply a field expedient tourniquet. You can lose a liter of circulating blood in 1 minute from a femoral bleed. You are going alone.

Edit: You'll need to be conscious to implement whatever rescue plans you plan on, too.

Arterial bleed while backpacking? Um ok.. Why don't you bring a kitchen sink too.

NO U!