My wife and I were going on the South Coast track starting Sunday week (8 days time) with 4 other friends, capable walkers. But on Wednesday I stuffed my knee at work and now I am going in for surgery on Monday.
I want my wife to still go with them so I have told her I should be able to get her down to an acceptable level, not counting the camera gear, but I'm struggling.
I haven't put weights on the food yet, but here's how the list looks so far.
She wants to be independant so I have included a stove & fuel, also I am leaving my tent at home as we have borrowed a Second Arrow for her which is 1kg lighter than mine.
The food - Breakfast will be 65 grams of Fibre plus, milk powder, a tea bag.
Dinners are all those freeze dried expensive bags that you get from the bushwalking shops - already got them so they're about 90 grams each.
Lunch will be mountain bread with cheese, salami, onion. Maybe a food tume with some mango chutney instead of hommus as the spread for the mountain bread.
Nibbles will be dried fruit, packet of ginger nut snaps, nuts etc, sultanas, and of course sustagen powder. A stick of Toblerone chocolate if there's room - doesn't melt as easily.
Without spending a fortune, any ideas on how to reduce this?
Leaving the camera gear is not an option - not much point going if you can't take the camera. But am contemplating cutting the tripod from the list, this will impact on the results though.
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Weight (g) Gear
2635 Pack - Macpac Esprit
25 Pack liner bag
17 Garbage bag for clothes + 1 rubber band
17 Garbage bags for sleeping bags + 1 rubber band
1687 Sleeping bag, silk sheet, Mont stuff sack
395 Sleeping Mat Thermarest 3/4
2910 2nd Arrow tent (2360g tent + 550g poles/pegs)
377 Space Blanket for groundsheet
244 Head Torch with 3 x AA - LED.
38 Compass & whistle
22 Sunglasses
65 Insect repellent
20 Sunscreen
9 Lip balm
20 Toothbrush
120 Toilet paper
84 Two long snow tent pegs for digging
10 Plastic bags for rubbish etc
286 Water bottles (178 + 108)
120 Water bladder
55 Pocket knife
200 First aid kit (minimized to individual essentials)
380 Stove with lighter, matches, etc - MSR Simmerlite
920 Fuel - Shellite and MSR bottle (aluminium)
44 Notebook and pen
120 Plate / bowl / cup (probably will cut plate out of this)
26 Titanium Spoon & plastic fork
85 Tea towel in bag
315 Billy with lid (shops didn't have titanium one in stock)
5 Scourer
5 Spare cord - length of builders line (good for all sorts of things)
2700 Compression bag full of clothes
732 Japara
232 Plastic pants
Clothes to wear, boots, gaiters, hat etc (not really counted as these will be worn)
Camera Gear -
1029 Body - D200 + card + battery
631 Lens - 18-200
532 Lens - 12-24
1576 Tripod
255 Batteries (@ 85g ea) x 3
110 Mem cards, filters, level
219 Camera bag
17 Plastic bags to waterproof camera gerar
12 Lens Cloth
85 Hand towel for camera gear
Food for 7 days -
6 x Breakfast
7 x lunch
7 x dinner
nibbles / scroggin / sustagen
emergency food
19386 Total of items with weights listed
