Mountain Equipment Wet and Dry Stuff Sack
Tilly Hat
Paramo Mountain Cap
Magellan GPS
Toilet trowel
Small camping towel
Si-nylon stuff sacks, small and medium
Sunglasses
Life venture chlorine water tablets
Sealskinz Gloves
Nikon D70, digital SLR

When walking, the sleeping bag, clothes stuff sck and down vest were stored in a 25 litre Mountain Equipment Wet and dry stuffsack

The Tilly Hat is wonderful, giving great protection from the sun and the rain. Used more often than I thought it might be. The mountain Cap protects the ears and is lighter and more comfortable than those lined with fleece. On really windy days I used the mountain cap underneath the excellent Velez hood.

I don't like GPS systems but they are nice to have in unknown country. Used once on the peat hags near Shiel of Mark.

The toilet trowel is important but used on only a few days; Scotland is not really a wilderness. This is just a cheap, standard trowel from Home Base.

The camping towel is not really necessary. It dries out very quickly. Was used more for drying down the tent fly in the mornings.

These light stuff sacks are wonderful. I used them to keep food, cooking gear and toiletries in (they are much easier to use than wash bags).

The sunglasses were a complete waste of time!

The water tablets were not needed - water if fine in Scotland - just be sensible about where you take it from. Still, I felt better having them in the pack.

The gloves were useless as they got wet - these can get soaked and are hard to dry out. When wet they offer no warmth at all. I reckon glove would have been nice on a couple of occasions. These were - by a long way - the worst pieces of kit I carried!

The Nikon camera is very heavy! But it is worth it if you are keen on photography. Carrying this, bandana style, tends to balance weight with the pack. My Lowe Alpine Camera case gave up completely on the penultimate day - but it was three years old and had been drenched on many occasions!