Trail comforts?

[timberweasel]

What are some of your favourite 'comfort' items/products that you like to pack for the great outdoors? Cigars? Chewing gum? An inflatable pillow? Little things that might help make your trip a tad more enjoyable...

Just kind of curious to hear about your 'non-essentials'...

[Sig_Op]

beef jerky, a book

[fmajor007]

Mini-Snickers candy bars.

Candle Lantern. I don't really *need* it (i use a head-lamp) and it doesn't do enough to justify it's weight, but it's "comforting" to have in my tent.

[PropThePolecat]

A seatpad...best comfort item I ever bought!

[gdpolk]

Hands down it has to be my Thermarest mattress and chair converter pad for my mattress. The chair makes chilling at camp much more comfortable and the pad makes for a great night's sleep. These are the two essential "non-essential" items that must be on every trip.

[baldtaco-II]

[Bob W]

Camera.

[Angus McGunnigl]

Usually a book.
Summer backpacking trips I bring a few of those small soda cans of Coke.
One of those cooled in a mesh bag in a glacier fed stream is VERY SATISFYING !!!!

[kvaughn]

Organic herbal medicine.Depending on what state I'm in.--KV

[Shotgun]

2.75 inch thick thermarest. Sometimes I get better sleep on that then I do at home.

[VTguy17]

A flask of good bourbon or rye whiskey, a book, and a harmonica.

[Fonly]

My pipe and some Borkem Riff tobacco.

[foxx]

A blow up doll with a Chuck Norris mask. If predators see that I'm with Chuck, they leave us alone. Plus, I have company on those long solo trips.

Really, I have to have a small pillow and my Ridgerest pad. It's my seat as well, though one of those chair convertable things seem appealing. Hot tea or coffee, I'd live without it, but I'd be less happy in the morning.
I would be pretty miserable without a ground pad, in pain maybe.

[TheGame]

I'd have to say a book for reading at night with a headlamp.

[Brian Andrews]

My pipe and some Borkem Riff tobacco.

Yup....the pipe Although I wouldn't specify a single tobacco as it is going to depend on the day, time of year and all that good stuff. Too many blends for me to say that one is my woods blend

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[hollowdweller]

[mblackfu]

sunflower seeds

[Guyon]

[PayetteRucker]

depends on what I'm drinking, but beer, whiskey and rum often find their way in my pack, sometimes all 3. Always worth the extra weight. I'll bring instruments, tea, coffee, and make good food on the trail, usually starting with a couple of cuts of steak, with potatoes, onions... and a brick of Hershey's Symphony.

[lambertiana]

A jar of Nutella. After dinner, eat it by the spoonful.