Paria Outdoor Products - Thermodown 15

A backpack of course along with a sleeping pad (insulated if going in cold), sleeping bag/quilt, tent. These are your big 4. A budget setup would be something like: Tent - Lanshan 2 or one of the Naturehike tents or featherstone granite - around $150 If you have the money I would get a Durston Xmid, it's pretty bomb proof and is around $330, amazing tent Sleeping bag - Kelty cosmic down - on sale for $135, Paria thermodown - on sale for $150 Sleeping pad - Paria recharge insulated - $100 or REI Helix backpack - Granite Gear crown 2 used to be found under $100 (I have one and paid $70 on sale), maybe the Decathlon MT100 or one of the REI coop bags. I'm not 100% sure what is considered the best budget one these days After the big guys above you will need: Cooking system - I use the Firemaple 600ml pot ($20) and a cheap amazon stove that fits the pot's cutouts but they sell their own for like $20 I think it's called the Greenpeak Water filter - I have a sawyer mini but if I got one again I'd get a platypus quickdraw on sale now for $30

Paria outdoors has their 15 degree down bag on sale for $130 right now. I have it and it is very nice and kept me really warm in 40 degree temps. You won't really find a down bag that cheap so you might want to look at it. You could always bring your other bag as a 2nd layer juuuust in case but I was nice and warm at 40 degrees