Hebdomadal walk down into the town for the week's supplies. Mountain ranges idyllic with the changing leaves, warm breeze from the south blowing some extraordinarily fresh air from the mountains. Unlike last week, the principal peak silhouetted by very faint sky glow on the return, as I walked back along the axis of the Milky Way.
I cannot overstate the importance of having a good ruck, whatever your situation. It's the sort of consumer good that's replicated by the million, but if you know what to look for, you can find a good one at about the same price as most, and much less inexpensive than those constructed in such a manner as to provide good advertising copy. That, and the wide-brimmed felt hat, the sign of the artist since the mid 19th c. The Dauphin had his horse, I have a ruck and hat.
Given the advances in manufacturing, there is an abundance of goods in the world; the ultra-high-end in my experience is generally much overrated. So you have to be selective, but not in the manner of the fashionable. Once you identify a certain good that would be useful (ruck, hat, boots, etc.), honestly investigate the thing itself, find out what makes it good, and look for that sort of thing. (Finding out what was the best 75 years ago can provide some pointers.) No need to keep consulting the magazines to find the good things. As Gurdjieff pointed out, that usually leaves you at the mercy of whoever has a large marketing budget at the time.