Unnecessary Essentials

What can be considered unnecessary in the backcountry, great outdoors, on the river? We are looking for those things that you should and know that you should not be carrying with you. For example has anyone lost their wallet on a rafting trip or lost the keys to their car and have no means of getting home?



We are looking for those adventurers that may bring a little too much in which some may consider as overkill. We are looking for those folks that are packing a unfamiliar item in their gear for no know specific purpose in the outdoor experience. For example, bringing a laptop or huge cooler on a backcountry-backpacking trip. We want you to be part of our undercover VentureTree snapshot crew. We want you to go about your everyday adventure and take pictures of these odd items that you find on your outdoor experience. How odd can one go? Are they trying to impress someone or just trying to be a show off? I use to fall into the above category myself.



I had limited resources and did not like purifying my own water with iodine tablets. I chose to carry the water that I need for the trip on me and this really sucks in hindsight because that was anywhere from 2 to 3 gallons of water per trip. I carried this burden through most of my younger backpacking years in the good Ole Boy Scout days. I hated my Wal-Mart sleeping bag back then and chose to carry that old extra long, extremely heavy, -0 degree military sleeping bag. I have no rhyme or reason to my confession, besides that it was a mere learning experience.



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Bentley Venturetree Team