They are an invasive species in some regions so do consider that before plating.

Perfect place for a trail cam if you have one.

Being provided with much of your food certainly makes it far easier.

Why are you going underwater when you dump a canoe?

The 67 and 67i have immensely better battery life and an internal rechargeable lithium battery. You can load whatever maps you want onto them and for me in Ontario, the best maps don't work with the popular cell phone apps.

You can overlay your track onto the GPS so ti's really easy to backtrack. I also explore ATV and snowmobile trails which are usually unmarked and unmapped and carry a 67i. Reliability is key for me as the areas I'm in are super easy to get extremely lost.

Garmin doesn't really have any competitors in the handheld GPS market. Their closest competitors are rugged cell phones with mapping applications.

Flamethrower.

There are so many options for shelters. Many people settle for a 2 person freestanding tent but tarps, hammocks and trekking pole tents are popular options too. This site has a comparison of a bunch of different options and there are plenty of tents around 3lbs which are adequate. Some tents need or benefit from groundsheets and I recommend using tyvek if you can get your hands on any.

https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/topics/camping-and-hiking/best-backpacking-tent

I recommend going to a store and trying on a bunch of packs and boots / shoes. Do a lot of research on the ones that fit well and seem to meet your needs before you decide on one.

There are tons of good quality Chinese brands for cookware (Toaks, Lixada, Boundless voyage). A small titanium or steel pot works great with the standard freeze dried backpacking meals.

Presuming you are going backpacking in warm weather there is no need to spend a fortune on a sleeping bag.

So much of what you will need depends on your enviroment.

If this is a very sparsely used trail / area outside of cell range it's a good idea to have an emergency communication device.

A first aid kit that can treat blisters and bleeding from a small fall is important.

A backup form of navigation as you can't rely on others.

Never know until you ask. I think they will.

It's not a pry bar and that's probably why you managed to break it.

Figure out what your sister uses for navigation first. Many of the emergency communication devices include GPS navigation. Most people tend to use cell phone applications to navigate and wouldn't want a device with a large screen.

The Garmin inReach Mini 2 is one of the most popular devices and is about as small as it gets for something that has the ability to send stand alone messages. Some devices require a cell phone to be paired to them to send messages. IMHO that puts all your eggs in one basket of relying on a phone which to me is a bad idea given how often people break phones.

The inReach Mini 2 also has navigation capabilities and is sufficient for emergency navigation should ones phone get lost, broken or have issues.

It's a good gift idea for the average hiked who is often out of cell range. Some people like myself use a full size GPS for navigation and it wouldn't be a great gift but we're not too common.

What is that?

People do try to restrict use of land here too. I've had people follow my car when I'm headed out on hikes. In a friends former area someone built a large berm to prevent the use of a public boat launch. It was also the fire truck access point for water and when a fire happened in the area they couldn't do anything about it.

The police are usually stretched pretty thin even in the areas with cottages and farms. It's harder to use them as a tool to harass people. Some of the more remote areas I've been have been absolutely lawless and someone was driven out of town for calling the police.

The last time I came across a logging area I thought their operation was illegal as there wasn't any no trespassing signage. Though almost all logging is on public land, corporations can have a lease to the land and often keep people out. Often they don't really care if you are not affecting them.

CanTopo is a one time lifetime purchase for Canadians and has the same (often poor) Open Street Maps data that Gaia uses.

What kind of problems do people give you? I get funny looks in the close to urban areas with a big pack too. In these areas there are homeless everywhere and you may see dozens of tents in a few kilometres.

In wilderness areas I'm more concerned about being accidentally shot than people giving me trouble and one of my tents is orange which is a pretty stark contrast. I purposely had a visible site on a lake where the only way to there on foot is a long trek.

I usually hear gun shots while camping in Canada outside of managed parks which is my typical camping trip. Often they are target shooter but there is also a large indigenous presence and they can hunt any time of the year.

The best part is I usually know where they are shooting and as a gun owner it's not somewhere I'd shoot.

Unlikely. If you are into outdoor activities you should tailor a kit to the activity, especially if weight matters.

It's a modern radio direction finder. We've been using them for a century.

We can deliver precision ordinance onto a cell phone user nowadays.

There are solutions, they are however not legal.

Everything I find was left behind kinda hidden. So many tarps that are falling apart and leaving plastic bits everywhere and was last touched a decade ago.

Sounds like Germany really sucks for outdoor stuff. I love the ability to do whatever I want within reason such as respecting fire bans, fishing regulations and no permanent shelters in Canada.

The most scenic and popular places will of course have regulations to prevent them from being trashed.

While backpacking I've forgot cutlery and dropped it in the snow in the winter. I've been below -20C in remote areas and should anything happen to my shelter or sleeping bags the fire and reflector would keep my alive and warm all night.

Would be kind of dumb to go into remote areas in extreme conditions on foot without such skills.

When you delete a post nobody else can search for and read the advice. Asking questions isn't dumb, going on long hikes without advice is dumb.

I think you are bringing too much food and this is coming from someone who is always prepared.

You are likely looking at freeze dried backpacking meals which do cost a fortune. You can supplement your meals with things like cliff bars, protein bars, nuts, trail mix, etc that are nearly as calorie dense as freeze dried food. With a bit of experience you can start cooking your own food and the sub r/trailmeals has a lot of great advice.

A good instant Ramen like the Samyang with cheesy / fatty flavours will be packed full of calories and can be combined with soy chunks or TVP and it may be worth to look into carrying stuff like this too. It's great for beginners as it's difficult to burn the hell out of it. Given the packaging even more lightweight than the freeze dried backpacking meals.

I rarely touch the backpacking specific meals as given how much I hike and camp it would cost a small fortune. It is a learning experience and while some other suggestions here are great it does take some learning.

The North American market is pretty devoid of small, practical vehicles. A 1L engine is also more fitting for a motorcycle than a car.

Lots of people are not going to fit into that as well.

If everyone gathers wood in a very frequently used place, every bit of dead wood in the area would be stripped with all the vegetation trampled down.

Happens even where it's not allowed to gather wood.