Gear for Mt. Whitney day-hike

This is the gear I brought for day-hiking the main Whitney trail:

Food:

• 8 packages Spiz, 500 Kcal each - I used 5 of them
• 12oz beef jerkey - I ate about 1/2 of it
• contents of 1 large can of lightly-salted peanuts - barely touched
• 10oz pretzel bits - barely touched
• 16oz gummy bears/worms - mostly eaten
• 8 Clif Bars - 2 eaten
• 8 Power Gels - 1 eaten, 1 given away

• Nylon pants - not used
• Nylon windbreaker - not used
• Tevas - I'm soooooo glad I brought these!
• Notebook & pen
• Iodine tablets and iodine taste neutralizer tablets - not used
• Small medical kit - used the moleskin (awful stuff - Scholl's is much better), nothing else
• Pur Hiker water filter - received a good deal of use
• 100oz CamelBak water bladder
• Petzl Zoom headlamp w/3 batteries - only 1 battery used, halogen bulb worked extremely well
• Petzl Tikka LED headlamp - not used
• 2AA-cell Mini-Maglite - not used
• 4 spare AA batteries for lights and talkabout - not used
• Sunglasses
• Coppertone Ultra Sport SPF 45 sunscreen - one application did the job
• Dermatone SPF 23 medicated lip balm - conveniently attached to a caribeener
• Band-Aid "Blister Block" cushions - not used. Barry said they didn't work worth beans.
• Compass - not used
• Bug repellant - not used
• Hunting knife - not used
• Instant hand sanitizer
• TP
• Ibuprofen - took 6
• Aspirin - took 4
• Trowel
• Emergency "space" blanket - not used
• Sony DSC-F505V digital camera w/4 memory sticks and 2 extra batteries
• Canon S300 digital elph camera
• mini-tripod

Brought, but left in car:

• Fuzzy gloves
• Fleece pullover
• The usual car camping stuff

• Iodine tablets/anti-iodine tablets
• Small first-aid kit
• Aspirin/Ibuprofen
• Handfull of Clif Bars and Power Gels
• 2 liters of water storage (2/3 full 100oz bladder or 2 1l Nalgene bottles)
• Petzl Zoom headlamp w/1 spare battery
• "Space" blanket
• Trowel
• Tevas
• Notebook & pen
• Cold weather gear as dictated by the forecast
• Canon S300 digital elph
• mini-tripod