I always carry Tenacious tape, which works well with silnylon tents, and clothing hole repairs. My repair kit is suuuper tiny! The items in here will help with small repairs, but with the type of trips I do, it usually covers all of my bases.
I want to keep my own to avoid finding some in a hiker box and potentially getting a toe fungus or something from someone else. I only bring these on thru-hikes to make sure I’m keeping my toenails short. Make it travel-sized for ultimate weight savings.Ĭan also be used for gear repair as a replacement for thread! Make sure you choose an unwaxed version if you want it to do double duty. Keeping your body clean helps with chafe and other rashes from forming in the creases of your body. This can definitely be considered a luxury item, but I prefer body wipes to bringing soap just because its so much easier to clean yourself with the wipes than scrubbing with soap 200ft away from water. This is preventative first aid as well - Mosquitos can carry West Nile Virus in North America, and Picaridin fends off ticks as well, which can carry Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I only bring bug spray when hiking under heavy bug pressure. I prefer Picaridin because if DEET leaks, it can literally ruin your gear (I’ve seen hipbelt pockets with holes from leaked DEET). You can buy eyedrops in packs with single-use vials to avoid over-packing. I have slight dry eye, but eyedrops are also good first aid in case you get something in your eye. Some of these items you really only need to bring when on backpacking trips (like the toothbrush and body wipes).Īt least SPF 30, include an SPF lip balm. The inReach is a last resort at calling for help after self-evacuation has failed. Garmin inReach Mini with an active subscription.
But in an emergency, it can be used as a tourniquet. The more practical usage of my bandana is using it as a snot rag. This is dangling off the back of my pack near my pee rag. Great for pulling a splinter out and preventing infection from that, or stingers if you’re stung by a bee.
This is amazing at preventing and healing chafe. It is good in conjunction with moleskin to keep the moleskin in place as moleskin adhesive is kind of bad. It is great for using on hot spots before they turn into blisters, and for using as bandage adhesive with gauze. The adhesive is super strong and it lays flat against the skin.
Leukotape is like moleskin, but 100% better, and not padded. FIRST AIDĭrugs (~4 days worth of the following): Ibuprofen 800mg per dose, Benadryl 1/day, Immodium 1/day, 2 Aspirin, my personal rx meds. The end goal is to evacuate to front-country medical care in 99% of incidents. I know from my Wilderness First Aid course that there is only so much that can be done in a wilderness setting. I carry the items that I know I could use to help mitigate a situation, and hopefully tide me over long enough to be able to self-evacuate or wait for help after hitting the SOS button on the PLB. So, I do not carry a huge first aid kit, even when I am solo hiking. Your kit is also only as good as how knowledgeable you and your partners are. As tempting as it is, it’s impossible to carry everything and the kitchen sink in your hiking first aid kit. I want to mention something important about first aid kits. It is a part of the 10 Essentials, after all! I kind of mesh my FAK and toiletries together because some items truly do serve dual purposes, and some of the toiletry items are actually preventative first aid, especially if we’re talking about long backpacking trips. A first aid kit (FAK) is an important thing to keep stocked in your hiking gear.
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