Don't ever pass up SKI POLES at a garage sale! They make excellent walking sticks, geocaching sticks, safety sticks for poking and prodding in animal dens, camera mono pods, etc.

I put VELCRO strip on top of the pole and a strip on the BOTTOM of my point and shoot camera. Makes taking you-in-the-pics pictures real easy if you are anywhere except concrete!

I tend to camp via the canoe usually. I carry a basketball net for one. You can stop anyway along the river and fill it up with rocks and tie it off with your rope so you can make an anchor and dont have to worry about paddling around with the weight when you don't want it. Also, breakfast-in-a-bag. Make whatever breakfast you like before you leave. A couple of raw broken eggs with a slice or two of cooked bacon or sausage, maybe some cheese, maybe some jalapenos and store them in individual zip locks. In the morning when you're out on the river just boil some river water, thus reducing the amount of water you have to carry, and drop the bag unopened into the boiling water. It cooks in about 2 minutes. Fish it out and dump the contents in a pita and there you go. Plus, you'll have warm water then to wash up with. The only trash is 1 zip lock person. I do the same with cornbread. If a package says put x amount of milk in I pour the amount of powdered milk in and then use a sharpie to mark the line in the ziplock that will be good for both the powdered milk as well as the corn bread mix plus my water. Close it up and cut the tip off and much like a piping bag you can then squirt out individual hoe-cakes. The trash? Again, just the bag. No matter how light I travel or how hard I'm planning on roughing it, I carry a full size pillow and I sleep on a full length therm-a-rest. I also use a hell of a lot of hand-sanitizer, unless it's cold. When it's cold the alcohol tends to ruin my hands.