What are some of your wilderness backpacking Life Pro Tips to make things easier/better?

As i was hiking the North Coast Trail on Vancouver Island, I started keeping tracking of the little things I do to make my life easier on the trail, and thought it would be fun to put them out there for others, and to see what others like to do. I'll put them into the comments so folks can upvote them or downvote if they think they're useful, or to start a conversation on them --- **Post Details:** - **Subreddit:** r/backpacking - **Author:** u/RavenOfNod - **Score:** 20 upvotes - **Upvote Ratio:** 96.0% - **Comments:** 40 - **Posted:** 7/6/2025 - **URL:** https://reddit.com/r/backpacking/comments/1lt6nis/what_are_some_of_your_wilderness_backpacking_life/