This was a trip I made for xmas holidays in 2019. I was ~freshly out of a bad breakup, I knew I would not go to my family for the holidays, and I didn't feel like staying at my place. So I booked a flight for Buenos Aires, and rented a car for the whole duration of the trip. I brought my camping gear with me and set to travel all around the country.
This was the gear I left with:
and this rant I posted somewhere, on reddit I guess, to get feedback:
This this will be done in a car, with a TETON 3400 (55L) and a smaller One Tigris (34L) backpacks. The goal is to bring whatever is too expensive/hard to find on site, and to buy/rent what's missing as soon as I arrive (cooking pot, gas canister, plate and cutlery), but since the gear will mostly stay in the car I don't mind the weight too much. The trip starts in Buenos Aires, loops at Ushuaia, passing through mountains on the way south, and closer to the atlantic on the way back north. I am planning on wild camping it the whole time, except about 1 day a week to do the laundry if the weather is too bad (can't dry clothes outside) and if the weather is so bad it gets dangerous.
The interesting part for me with this gear-packing session was to account for the diversity of the climate along the trip: It is about 30C/85F in Buenos Aires, and 15°C/60°F in Ushuaia, with a higher probability of rain (6 days out of the next 7, ouch!).
The sleeping bag is a Kelty Tuck rated for -5C/22F and the pad is the Klimit Insulated Static V so low temperature is not a major worry for now. The tent is a koda 1 from ALPS. For the rain, I'm going with a light Mammut jacket (kinda like this one but it's a few years old now I could not really find it on their website), some simple waterproof jeans overalls, and my old trusted Merrel Crestbound.
This is a trip of a magnitude I have not done before (solo trip + wild camping + not really speaking the local language, all at once, + driving with a shift stick lol). This is what makes it scary and exciting and I can't wait to get there, but feedback is much appreciated!
And this is it all packed:
All in all, a great memory. I met nice people, had a lot of fun, just the right amount of scares, way too much martini (can't find that type here in Québec), and plenty landscapes in my eyes for the rest of the season.
Here's a gallery I came up with after I came back