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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.gear for grand traverse mt cook and rescue vid
Mon 24 Dec, 2012 3:08 pm
http://climbforhope.wordpress.com/2012/ ... -is-right/
over New Year as we attempt the Grand Traverse on Aoraki Mt Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain.
The Grand Traverse (GT) is one of those routes which is committing. Once you get high up on that ridge, it is difficult to get off it. In fact the easiest way to get off if things turn bad, can be to complete the route and descend down the other side. Most routes on mountains involve ascending from one point and descending back to that same point. Hence you can set-up your ‘basecamp’ and leave a good deal of your equipment not needed for the climb at the basecamp. For example, sleeping bags, spare food, spare fuel, tent or bivvy sack.
over New Year as we attempt the Grand Traverse on Aoraki Mt Cook, New Zealand’s highest mountain.
The Grand Traverse (GT) is one of those routes which is committing. Once you get high up on that ridge, it is difficult to get off it. In fact the easiest way to get off if things turn bad, can be to complete the route and descend down the other side. Most routes on mountains involve ascending from one point and descending back to that same point. Hence you can set-up your ‘basecamp’ and leave a good deal of your equipment not needed for the climb at the basecamp. For example, sleeping bags, spare food, spare fuel, tent or bivvy sack.
Re: gear for grand traverse mt cook and rescue vid
Mon 24 Dec, 2012 6:41 pm
Stunning video and soundtrack. (5 Dec. 2008). What is it about the Kiwis 
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Re: gear for grand traverse mt cook and rescue vid
Tue 25 Dec, 2012 4:44 am
vagrom wrote:Stunning video and soundtrack. (5 Dec. 2008). What is it about the Kiwis
I look forward to your video of the mountains
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