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Born to be Adventurous West Coast Trail Ultimate Backcountry Family Gear List Inside Total Gear for family of four Breakdown of what each family member carried Includes weight of each pack!
Ultimate Backcountry Family Gear List
Figuring out the gear for a longer backcountry trip can be a lot of work! Figuring out gear for a
family of four over 10 days can feel impossible. We spent hours figuring this out for our family.
We created this list for you to help you save time planning your next big family backcountry
trip.
* Many of these items are needed whether your backcountry trip is two days or 10 days!
Essentials Safety
Zip Lock (to keep essentials dry) First Aid Kit – Add extra Bandaids, tweezers.
IDs (passport if from out of Canada) Blister Care Kit
Health Care cards Calmoseptine Keeps feet fresh
Insurance contact information Baby Powder in Zip Lock
Credit cards Bear Spray
Map of trail Duck Tape
Cash on Hand Water Filter Tablets
Optional: Two Way Satellite Communicator –
Inreach or Spot
BC Adventure Smart Trip Plan App
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Cooking This pot is good enough especially if
eating freeze dried food
Jetboil Flash with 1 Litre capacity pot
Jetboil fuel
Bowls, Utensils and Cups
Hydroflask coffee mug
Uco Gear Utensils
No need for plates
Bowls
Garbage bag
To pack out your
garbage
Water and Waterbottles
Water Filter - Platypus Gravityworks 4
Litre system
Kids - Hydration Packs
Adults - 1.5 litre plastic disposable
water (long backcountry trips)
Hydroflask 40 L waterbottle (hiking
and shorter backcountry trips)
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Sleeping
backpacks to carry all the gear
-5 to -10 C Sleeping Bags
Sleeping Mats
Optional: Blow up pillow (or stuff mat bag with clothes)
4 Person Tent
Tent Fly
Tent Poles
Tarp
Hot Tip: Pack clothes, sleeping bags,
electronics, first aid kit, food, and
anything else you don’t want to get wet
in dry bags, or zip locks. Waterproof
compression bags also work but are
more expensive. We use those for the
slieeping bags.
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Clothes
Pair of quick dry hiking pants. Kids have these hiking pants here.
One T-shirt (100% polyester or merino wool)
One long sleeve (100% polyester or merino wool)
One puffy jacket.
Cam and I don’t pack rain pants but have
One hat
quick dry pants.
One sports bra (optional)
Kids have packable rain pants. Kids use this Packable Pakka Rain Pants.
One rain jacket. Kids use the Packable Pakka Rain Jacket
One Gaters for wet /muddy trips and beach hikes to keep sand out
Kids used these Outdoor Research gaiters.
I used a pair from Mountain Warehouse and Cam didn’t bring any along.
Mine were inexpensive and kind of worked. They kept the sand out of
my shoes and most of the wet/mud. I am sure there are better pairs.
4-8 pairs of Underwear (hard to dry on the WCT)
Adults 2-3 pairs of wool socks.
4 pairs of wool socks for kids.
10 pairs of 100% polyester ankle socks for kid.*See note below
Pair of hikers
Pair of Lightweight Sandals
Carbon Fiber Hiking Poles.
* Note on Kid’s Socks.
Real Mom Moment: Our kids really don’t like bulky wool socks. This is not ideal because they
are really what you should wear while hiking. They hike most trails in thin, polyester socks with
their trail runners. When their shoes are wet or in winter hiking, they do wear the wool socks.
We pack extra socks to accomodate them.
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Toddler Base Layer Set is found
Clothing for Bedtime here or the Big Kids Base Layer
Set is found here
One base layer set.
One fresh pair of warm wool socks NOT used for hiking.
One neck warmer
One toque.
Puffy Jackets can also be worn at night.
Mittens
For colder backcountry trips. Not needed on WCT during summer.
Toiletries
Toothbrush break handle off to make more lightweight
Toothpaste
Face and Body Lotions
Reef Safe Sunscreen
Sunscreen
Bug spray
bugs on WCT are not that bad. Consiicder for other backcountry
Hand sanitizer hikes. We use Piactive against ticks and mosquitoes.
Toilet paper and Pee Cloth
Hair Brush
Hair Ties (optional)
Menstrual Cup (optional)
Natural Deodorant (optional)
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Medications in case of unknown allergic
reaction
Adult Benedryl
Kids Benedryl or Reactine in case of unknown allergic reaction
Antidiarrheal medicines
Any personal medications
Advil
Kid’s Advil
Tylenol
Kid’s Tylenol
Electronics
Camera (include 3 extra batteries, 1 extra
SD cards, carrying case)
Insta360 OneX2 (option to include 2
extra batteries, an extra SD card)
Phone
Phone and Inreach Charging Cord
Powerbank for Charging
For Fun
A deck of cards or a card game like Uno
Frisbee
Notebooks, pens, pencils, sharpener, and
eraser.
Small Stuffed Animal (optional)
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A look into each backpack!
A Look into our 6 year old’s backpack
Used the Osprey Moki 1.5 Kid’s Hydration Pack
5 to 1 litres of water in a water bladder.
Packable rain jacket
Notebook and pencil
Panda stuffy
First snack (usually a granola bar)
Clif Blocks
Total Weight: Between 4 and 6 pounds.
A Look into our 8 year old’s backpack
Used the Deuter Fox 30 Backpack
1.5 L waterbladder filled
Sleeping bag
Husky Stuffy
Packable Rain Jacket
Packable Rain Pants
Notebook and pencil
First snack for the day
Clif Blocks
Total Weight: Between 5 and 7 pounds.
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A look into my backpack:
Used a 64 Litre Gregory Backpack
1.5 Litre plastic waterbottle
All dinners
1 snack bag for family for the day
1 lunch bag for the family for the day
My clothing and kid’s clothing
My sleeping bag
6 year old’s sleeping bag
Two mattresses
Occasionally my 8 year old’s sleeping bag
Tent poles
All toiletries (toothbrushes, small hair brush, creams, etc)
Bear spray
Uno
Camera Gear, extra batteries, charger.
Total Weight: 48 pounds before we attached water and a few other items to the outside.
*On the West Coast Trail the weight went down by the 7th day but then back up when
we restocked at the food drop.
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A look into Cam’s Backpack:
Borrowed a 70-liter backpack
1.5 plastic waterbottle
All lunches (except for the day’s lunch bag)
All snacks (except for the day’s snack bag)
His Sleeping Bag
His Clothes
Tent
Two mattresses
Water filter
Inreach
First Aid Kit
Cooking equipment
Fuel
Frisbee
Gopro
Total Weight: 62 pounds before we attached water and a few other small items like the
satellite communicator.
*On the West Coast Trail the weight went down by the 7th day but then back up when
we restocked at the food drop.
Backcountry Hiking Resources
Guide to Hiking the West Coast Trail Best Hiking Backpacks for Kids
Backcountry Food Guide 10 Ways to Prepare for the West Coast Trail
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