Backpacking List

🎒 Backpacking Trip Packing List for two Nights

Everything you need for a fun, comfortable, and safe adventure in the backcountry!

🏕️ Camp & Sleeping Gear

• ⛺ Tent

• 📍 Tent stakes

• 🛏️ Sleeping pads

• 💤 Sleeping bags

• 🧥 Puffy jacket

• 🔦 Headlamp

• ✨ Fairy lights

• 🪢 Rope

• 🐻 Bear bag

• 🥾 Walking Poles - optional depending on your tent

• 🎒 Backpack

  
  

👕 Clothing & Weather Layers

• 🧦 Extra socks

• 🩲 Extra underwear

• 👚 Base layer / thermal shirt

• 👖 Hiking pants or shorts

• 🧥 Fleece or warm mid-layer

• 🧥 Puffy jacket / insulated layer

• 🌧️ Rain pants and Jacket — if wet weather is expected

• 🧢 Sunhat

• 🧤 Warm hat / beanie

• 🥾 Hiking shoes or boots

• 🩴 Camp shoes — optional
  

Tip: Weather can change quickly in the backcountry. Bring layers that you can add or remove throughout the day rather than relying on one heavy jacket.

🍳 Cooking & Food

• 💧 Water bottle

• 💧 Water filter

• 🍴 Sporks

• 🔥 Propane

• ♨️ Jetboil

• 🍎 Food

• 🔥 Lighter

• 🗑️ Trash bag

• 🛍️ Ziploc bag

• Bowls
  

🧭 Safety & Navigation

• 🩹 First aid kit

• 📡 InReach

• 🗺️ Map

• 🧭 Compass

• 🔧 Multitool

• 🪏 Trowel

• 🦟 Tick spray

• 🧴 Sunscreen

• 🧼 Hand sanitizer
  

🧼 Personal Items

• 🪥 Toothbrush

• 🧻 Wet wipes

• 💇 Hairbrush

• 🧺 Towel
  

🔋 Electronics

• 📱 Phone

• 🔌 Phone charger

• 🔋 Extra charging battery / power bank
  

🃏 Fun Stuff

• 🃏 Card game

• 🪵 Whittling knives

⭐ FINAL CHECK BEFORE YOU LEAVE

🔦 Headlamp — CHARGED

📡 InReach — CHARGED

📱 Phone — CHARGED

🔋 Extra charging battery — CHARGED

💧 Water bottle — PACKED