Jenna and I are planning on doing some backpacking this year.  We're doing at least one long trip - five days in the Olympic Peninsula - and hopefully some shorter trips.  We have framed backpacks from a trip my mom and I were going to do when I was a teenager, but never found time for.  Mom's backpack will probably just about fit Jenna; hopefully I haven't grown too much since high school and can use my pack.  We also have some of mom's old self-inflating sleeping pads and a packable propane stove.  Earlier in the year we bought some folding bowls, a plate/cutting-board, and some military surplus handled cups/bowls.

Tonight we tried to pick up some more backpacking-specific stuff we need.  We bought:

Marmot Limelight 2 backpacking tent.  I hope this isn't going to make Jenna too claustrophobic, because she'll, like, flail around and tear my hair out if it does.  Got a pretty good deal on it, and our friend Dylan has the same tent and says it's good.  But he's not halfway up a mountain dealing with Jenna freaking out about enclosures, is he?

Cheap foldable five-liter backpacking sink.  We'll have a two-compartment set-up for everyday dishes, but we'll have this little guy for long hikes.


Aluminum cookset.  We looked at higher-tech nesting sets, but online reviews suggested that the plastic on the strainer pot-lids often melted, and the included sink/pouches were pretty useless.  This set has what we need and nothing else.

We're also going to need sleeping bags, and we'll be putting together a First Aid kit and some other supplies in the last couple weeks here.