Thanks all.

I guess I won't bother with the cat hair/fishing line, as those were only to deter rodents and pests. I'm not even sure that's much a problem in the forest I'm planting in.

When exactly should I begin to prepare a site? I suppose in theory I could go shovel away snow in an area and shove some ferts into the ground but it's frozen now for sure and covered in about 3 feet of snow.

I like the idea of taping upside-down pots over pots to carry them, I could for sure then carry them in another backpack much more easily.

I forgot to mention, I do have a PH/nute test system (for N/P/K) which I will for sure be bringing along to test various sites.

I'll scout out more areas with more open canopies when some of the snow melts more towards spring, and yes I'm working with clones I plan to take from my babies which are sitting under CFLs right now. They're blueberry/c99 hybrids, which as far as I've heard can tend to be picky about environment so I am a little anxious about that.

I'll also have to verify which of my 3 current plants are potentially females (and males - I'd actually like to do some indoor breeding and outdoor fem-growing) when I'm able to take pictures this weekend I'll post and see if you guys can tell from that.

As for materials this is the revised list:

backpack carrying:
-camping shovel (or would a beefy trowel work?)
-water crystals
-slow-release nitrogen
-moist potting soil
-PH/N/P/K test kit
-jug for water - I could actually use stream water and carry a smaller bottle

other bag:
-for plants

anything else essential? GPS isn't really a possibility unfortunately, and instead I was thinking of using landmarks and drawing out a map to the site (this forest is pretty damn big, but manageable).

I also heard ideal sites are on a bit of a slope, is this true?