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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.
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Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 4:27 pm

How many others have my problem. got all my C**p together, wrote my checklist based on experience and the expected conditions, culled some extra items and now I want to repack and put in an old merino wool jumper "just in case I get cold"
it is bad enough that I am packing for ice as well as snow and taking a day pack also.

Here is my clothing list as culled

Leather ski boots with supergaiters
Plastic telemark boots
Plastic double Mountain boots with supergaiters
Alpine Liner sox (nylon by Patagonia)
Alpine ski sox, (polyester by Thorlo)
Woollen ski sox
Holeproof explorers (2 pair)
Bivvy boots/hut slippers?

Red Windstopper gloves
Pile glove liners (2 pairs)
Trigger finger over- mittens (Mutants HD by Outdoor Research) USMC issue
Ski gloves
Head
Damart Finnish cowl
Silk bandanna

Patagonia Windproof balaclava
White Norsewear beanie
Nike mesh baseball cap
Patagonia silk weight top
Red shawl collar 100wt top
Army green vest (Home-made form old winter liner for the old issue japara, similar to M-65 liner)
Puma track-suit top (Polyester microfiber with polyester mesh lining, extra pockets added inside and out)
Goretex parka
L7 jacket US Army issue, same as the Patagonia Micropuff parka but with a fold-away hood,

Long-johns; medium weight grid-fleece stretch, Rays outdoors
Puma tracksuit pant, polyester microfiber with polyester mesh lining
Lightweight nylon wind pants, these are old USMC winter camouflage issue, half zip on the legs and quick to pull on even when wearing boots.
Pile trousers, actually expedition weight long-johns, similar to Polartec 100
L7 pants, same as the Patagonia Micropuff pants, full length side zippers
Goretex storm pants

Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 4:50 pm

Gees Moondog55 where are you going and for how long and do you intend carrying all of this for some distance or just from the car to the Ski Lodge :? :)
corvus

Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 4:58 pm

Pulk, so weight isn't too big an issue
I'm doing a long stay at and around Pretty Valley.
So I am going to combine some resort Telemarking with some extended day touring and a quick side trip to do Feathertop ( I always take an axe and crampons for Feathertop) I tend to ski hot and get cold quickly when I stop

Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 5:35 pm

Don't know what" Pulk " means however however I hope you have a really good trip :)
corvus

Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 5:39 pm

corvus wrote:Don't know what" Pulk " means however however I hope you have a really good trip :)
corvus

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Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 5:57 pm

Wow :lol: ask and you will receive as my old Dad used to say , not on you back but on a Sledge type vehicle brilliant !! one question however how do you stop it running into you on a downhill slope and I may add that in the Snow areas I mostly walk in it would be a hindrance (only been to Mt Field once where it would be good) but brilliant never the less.
corvus

Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 6:04 pm

Rigid tow bars
On skis it does add to the speed so you need to be careful.
Because I intend to be out until I run out of fuel or food I thought it prudent to take one spare set of clothes, something I stopped doing for week-end walks a decade ago.
My wife is laughing at me, I just tried on all my layers and broke into an immediate sweat ( the heating being set on 21C 'cos she is sick with a broken kneecap )
I may leave the tracksuit behind, simply too warm.

Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 6:05 pm

My pulk if you missed the picture before
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Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Fri 22 Jun, 2012 6:12 pm

:oops: Saw the rigid draw poles (bit slow on the uptake :roll: ), just like the shafts on a cart then :)
corvus

Re: Dithering, rewriiteing checklists and repacking

Sat 23 Jun, 2012 8:33 pm

Moondog55 wrote:...Here is my clothing list as culled...
Pile glove liners (2 pairs)
Trigger finger over- mittens (Mutants HD by Outdoor Research) USMC issue
Ski gloves
Head
Damart Finnish cowl
Silk bandanna...


Good to see you haven't forgotten that . . .
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