Luxury Backpacking Gear - Things That Make Me A Happy Hiker 

Easily one of the most under rated backpacking channels, your content is appreciated brother.

Jupiter, you're the most grateful vibe hiker+youtuber and I love that you share your ultralight experience without being pretentious or salesy. It's why I keep watching everything you post. You make youtube and the hiking world a better place.

I bring a speedcube on every single hike I go on and have been inspired to start bringing my nice yoyos because of you! GeneralYo 5-Star represent!

That Magic the Gathering story was epic. Thank you for sharing. You put things into a different perspective

Jupiter you are a legit individualist, and I hope to run into you out there sometime. Your kit is too light for an old man to stay functional after a few days, but you have a great core message - go all the way down then work your way back with the things you just have to have. Your luxury items are bad-ass in that I love how they are all mental, and none bolster physical comfort. Really good, unique perspectives. Thank you for posting.

Just whip it out and play with it a little bit here and there.... Classic....

Your watercolor paintings are AMAZING

Dude! I was watching this *as I was organizing all my MTG cards to sell* before starting the PCT in about 40 days. They are literally all in front of me right now. As I watched your video. AND NOW all I can think of is the PCT-themed deck that I must discover and build along with the 4oz of hope that someone else is doing the same.

“When the trail is easy and I can just whip it out and play with it here and there . . . “ 🤣🤣🤣

I sometimes take a ham radio that fits in an altoids tin. Doing morse code and talking to people around the world with 5 watts. I use very thin wire antenna. But my hikes are all just overnight so far. Watching your videos has helped my pack weight go from 44 lbs to 15 lbs. Actually enjoyed my walk for once without thinking about the pack! Never missed all that Big gear.

This is the best of these luxury item vids I've seen yet. Thanks Jupe!

Awesome paintings man! Love all those rocks and stones and stars and colorful skies! Maybe sell your work with a link? Bet you'd do really well!

Most RU-vidrs took the route of luxury meaning comfort i.e pillows or extra socks. But I like that you went with entertainment and specific to you. Good video!

I love how your eyes start shining when you talk about your water colors ^^

It’s all about the double privy with the cribbage board for me.

I brought my telescope once...was just a one nighter...awesome to have in those dark areas.. My go to luxury item is "my green pouch"..

He's the Bob Ross of ultralight hiking!

That story at the end about magic made me laugh so hard. Quality video as always Jupiter!

I’ve seen loads of these luxury items videos but yours is by far the most Entertaining:-)

I like your art work , very nice. I carry a few water color dabs in tiny trays inside an altoid tin along with WC postcards, a water filled brush and a micron ink pen. With 3 primary colors plus burnt sienna I can mix most colors. Later I'll make a studio painting from these and my photos and memories.

Your painting style is so unique, I really like it

I don't play magic or have a desire, but I love that story. It's that narrative that makes life interesting.

Jupiters luxury items-food, water, shoes. Lol 😂

Just starting to dig into your content and I appreciate it so much - so helpful and fun to watch. Love you positive attitude on the trail and sage advice

Jupiter is to hiking like what Alex Honnold is to climbing.

Thanks for sharing that vargo wood burning stove. I had seen it before but thought na. You have shown its appeal and value. Thanks Jup. Blue Boy

I am dying laughing. Ohhhh 😂😂😂thank you so much for that! Great video. You seem like such a genuine & well rounded person. Your hiking is on a waaaay different level than mine but i truly enjoy your perspective. Have you ever thought about doing a pod cast of your own?

In '82 I was hiking with a couple from Knoxville Edd Harrell and Terry Byrne. we had made it to Botetort county in VA. We stayed in a hostel. They went to town, I stayed in my comfy chair and read a book. They went to the J & B Trading Post and brought me back a luxury: a little wind up poodle toy, plastic, covered with fur, red paper collar. It weighed 1.5 oz. I carried it all the way to Harper's Ferry. We'd wind it up and watch it caper around on the shelter floor and then fall over. We'd laugh uproarously. I started using Killer (the trail name we dubbed it) to announce lunch breaks by placing it in the middle of the AT. That little piece of kitsch amused us heartily.

My non-essential item is a Rubics cube, love to play with it.

Keep it going buddy. You've got great energy.

For me, my phone and anker battery are #1. After that is my pipe and smoke. 😏

Magic the Gathering on trail? LOVE!!! My hiking partner and I do low-key LARP games with little to no gear.

Enjoyed the uncommon assortment of items, especially the versatile yo-yo to break spiderwebs and the art kit.

I dig your vibes, dude. I love the watercolors. MTG is a great idea as well!

finally ... the first video with real luxury items! so nice, thanks :-)

We have that little stove and use it a lot for backyard s’mores when we don’t want to start a larger fire. Great for backyard city dwellers during non trail time :) love the watercolors too, what a great luxury item!

Would you ever do a long distances bicycle tour? On and off tarmac? There is nothing like a multi continent bicycle tour. . .

Very fun video! Thanks for sharing. My favorite luxury item is the Helinox Chair Zero. It weighs one pound and is ridiculously comfortable. I brought it with me on the John Muir Trail.

Best, most unique assortment of items yet:) great video and BEAUTIFUL art work.

I also like whipping it out and playing with it for a couple minutes

You're a very good painter. Something I did not know.

Just discovered your channel and I am not a savvy backpacker I've enjoyed the outdoors all my life and mostly woodlands as compared to seashores, I just use what I have and it works for me. I really enjoy that you allow your art to always be apart of the adventures. That is something I really relate to myself lol. The forests have lots of music even in the silence as well. New sub and wishing you the best to come...

Dude that would have been so cool used to play magic with buddies back in day to play that on hike would be so sick

Love it all! Your paintings are wonderful...can't wait to see them on the trail someday!

Love the yo yo entertainment for you and all around you

Very good video. I like your personal luxury items. It brings personal entertainment that you could also enjoy even in rainy days in side your tent. My personal entertainment pocket size is the toy called bop it. Are usually play with it when I am lying down in my tent before I go to sleep. I played until I fall asleep. Is the best entertainment thing I can bring when I go backpacking that provides hours of enjoyment to myself. What is your favorite sleeping pad? Thank you so much for sharing this video. God bless you.

Totally bringing my 'gic deck (or 3) next time I go. And art supplies. Really actually inspired me here... I'm already thinking what portable whittling/carving/painting stuff I can put together to make an art-kit, and what MTG decks I can throw together that will be good trail-play-decks, theme-wise (i'm a big fan of theme-decks, though I spent many years playing with friends who were die-hard type1 & 1.5 players so I know how to be competitive as well as fun).

Such a fun video. Thanks!

Loved this video Jupiter! Laughing and enjoying all the imagery 👍🏿

Very enjoyable beginning to end. I'll just say I'm happy to see the wood stove mentioned. I think that is an option more people should work into their kit. I picked up a different model last year and am glad I did. Very often a full fire is not needed; it consumes unnecessary fuel at designated sites. It's great to learn how little is needed to cook or boil water with. Also, it reduces the number of canisters used. Those who advocate using canister stoves for LNT may leave no trace in that place in that moment by using a canister stove, but the metals used for canisters and the fuel has to come from somewhere. It can all be used, but we just need to be deliberate in the choices we make and not over-use any one thing.

Great video. How you explain yourself is why this channel should have many more followers. My newest luxury item is a 2x2 Rubik's Cube.

Man your painting are amazing

I really enjoyed the video and your take on luxury items. It is making me think more about my own. Also love the idea that the MtG hikers found each other on trail. I wonder how many games they got in over all the miles.

I love podcasts! What are your favorites? I have over 100 in my rotation. Stuff you should know, Sawbones, History of England, and All Songs Considered are among my faves.

Haha the vargo stove is my luxury item too. I get so much flack for it but I love it!

I have one of those aqua brushes too. They’re awesome! My solid water colour set grew mould all over the top of the paints. Was obviously not dried out properly when I packed it up & a long while between uses! Never thought about adding it to my hiking pack 🤔

Much love for your content, your channel is great and i learn a lot from your experience and your Videos. Cheers from Germany!

Jupiter. Promise me you avoid tying the yoyo tightly anywhere on your finger. We were reviewing angiograms today in physical therapy school and it showed a finger that was damaged from intense yoyo use.

Great video Jupiter

(Jupiter heaps love on art supplies) Bullet journal fans in the audience: who's gonna tell him those are not luxury items?

I like the stove 👍Even when camping above tree line, can bring a few twings from lower elevation.

I am prepping for a thru hike this year and shopping for this that and the other and have been recalling your 'needs vs wants' video. As I am loading online shopping carts at the moment I am asking myself "hold up RAC do you really need this or is this a luxury item?". I am going to bring a light weight battery bank this time. Looking at an Anker ten thousand mAh at six and a half ounces. My first hike I made it through the hundred mile sections of Washington PCT without a battery bank. I used my phone as sparingly as humanly possible. I did reward myself with at most 10 minutes of music just before bed time and although I did not have a battery bank I did have a second smart phone battery. If I have a luxury item this year it might be a physical journal to dream journal with. I have the same titanium stove, never used it. I do have the Vargo titanium bottle. I really want to bring it because plastic grosses me out. I am going stove-less this time. About using smart phones sparingly. If you have the brightness dimmed all the way down at night the screen may appear blacked out in strong overhead sun light the next day. I thought my phone died and powered it on and off several times thinking it died on me. It took me a while to figure out what happened.

Saw your owl drawing at Hikers Welcome!

Wicked awesome videos and hope one day to hike a hangout with ya. I'm out hiking every weekend and enjoying it

You know i think bringing a magic deck is a good idea. Its not unlikely to find card shops in trail towns where you could play with tons of people

Great tips! And funny seeing the magic cards dudes :D Btw. quick tip - you can try and see if you can change the setting on your camera/lens from Auto focus to Manual focus, when shooting videos where you are mostly staying in one position. And you can set the focus distance from the camera to be approximately where you will be standing (you can prefocus from the camera position to the ground where you will be sitting, or something that it will be a similar distance from you when sitting and the camera) and this way you have about half a meter or more where you will always be sharp and in focus, and the background can stay out of focus. Hope it makes sense

Your art is hella cool homie.

Hard core history podcast 👍

Ok, I'm bringing my MTG cards let's do this.

You have so many talents!

You seem to be so happy as a person, that I'm unsure if you're just making stuff up. Video was awesome, I love that you paint on the hikes.

Man, thats some tacksharp bamboo

That wood burning stove is really neat!

A man of many talents!

Bustin' webs with a yo-yo! Nice! Star Tropics on SNES much?

I get the vargo; not so hot on the yo yo but whatever floats ur boat.

I would be worried that if I did bring Magic cards and I DID run into someone that had a deck that we would have decks from 2 different formats and the games wouldn't be terribly satisfying. I am guessing those 2 guys traveled together or agreed to meet somewhere ahead of time. My luxury item would be a miniature tripod for my phone. The Google Pixel 4 can do astrophotography now so I would take advantage of the lack of light pollution to take some starscapes.

Jupiter! Do you Have postcards of your art for sale? I'd love to do the Fifty states Trail in future combines all the long distance trails in U.S.

Manthose paintings are great!

My new RU-vid favorite!,

Enjoyed the video, great stuff! I look up to you and how you can live so minimally! I sorta made fun of people like you with super low base weights in my latest video. But, of course I am always striving my hardest to be as low as I can. So I have nothing against y’all. Keep being super light and making us all jealous!

Thumbs up for the MTG references. Lol. Might bring a deck next time!

Do you carry a water filter? If not Why not.

I love the video. Awesome. I totally understand the yo-yo thing. I think lots of people play that card game. But, there is something similar in an app. My son and cousin were both playing it and didn’t know.

Was gonna say I wish i was friends with you and then i saw the watercolors; now i wanna be best friends with you

Awesome artwork!

Backpacking podcast!!! You should do it sir.

This guy is so ultra light that he left his autofocus at home!!

Can you send me a link to the battery or the new one. I didn’t get the name and the link doesn’t work.

Another nice video, great yo-yo skills, my dude! Do you remove buttons from your shirt to save grams or did you forget to button that second one?

Aww he takes paint on hikes... how cute 😭💕

MY LUXURY GEAR: (1.)-> Tarptent Notch Li Dyneema solo tent (21 oz.) (2.)->Osprey EXOS 58 pack (COMFORATBLE!) (3.)->REI FLASH Insulated 3 season air mattress (R 3.7and COMFY) (4.)->Sea-to-Summit pump/dry bag (carries my clothes and pumps up my mattress FAST W/O inserting damp, bacteria-laden breath) (5.)->Trail Designs Sidewinder ti Caldera Cone stove & ESBIT fuel tablets (compact, highly fuel efficient and light) and sometimes (6.)->APPLE iPOD W/a book loaded SEE? iPODs are still useful and FAR lighter than a smart phone. So yeah my pack ain't the lightest at just over 2 lbs. but did mention its comfort? And my air mattress is 15 oz. but, again, comfy and still light. I want BOTH Trail Comfort and Camp Comfort and I do get both.

My idea of backpacking isn't running through the Forest, but to do the least amount of miles in a day that I possibly can. Not to try to get any where, but to injoy the journey...and the people I meet .. backpacking to me is as much about camping as it is hiking...I walk, I might to 5 miles or 4 miles today, tomorrow I might do 15 or 20, I am not trying to get anywhere and I have all the time to do it...I am not a thru hiker but a pilgrim Backpacker... Praying and singing my praise to God is more of what I do...I am not on a vacation or holiday...that has a limited amount of time, then I have to go back to the world and my real life traveling by foot with a backpack is my Lifestyle...

Mtg! Try the new card game gloom. Very cool Mechanics.

Dude they make mini duel decks that come in at 2oz for the pair.

Paints are a great idea :)

I like how you break it down..good STUFF dude

Your a very good painter

I have the same paint set! ha!

Dude those skills 👍