Getting Gear for Multiday Alpine Walks

[Solohike74]

It rains almost constantly on the overland track. Use ultralight tents as backup shelter, but make the main plan one to use the huts. Unless your kids are as hardy, and dedicated as you are.

[kmcgreg]

Just added a MSR Windpro ii stove to our gear.....slowly building up our gear now.
Got tents, sleeping bags, stove, sleeping mats, rain jackets. Not bad for the first few weeks.

[kmcgreg]

Hi, regarding the sleeping bags, we got them from Mainpeak ..online for about $420 each.

We are getting there with gear.
We have 2 x exped Venus ii extreme tents, the sts traverse ii bags, exped sleeping mats.
I now have new backpacks...one plant Macmillan, Styx 2, and osprey ariel and another small osprey.
We have a msr windpro ii stove and I am hunting down pots, we have sea to summit collapsible plate/bowls and cups.
Other things to consider are knife, fire starter, dry packs/pack liners.

[wayno]

exped or sea to summit dry bags and pack liners.
avoid using the ultrasil sea to summit pack liners. they arent so bad as dry bags but dont work well with hard objects in them the waterproof membrane is more likely to get damaged than in the heavier bag.... i use ultrasils but i inspect them for any damage. i'll review if i keep using them depending on how long htey last but my ultrasil pack liners didnt last long before the membranes delaminated and developed holes in places..

[north-north-west]

Other things to consider are knife, fire starter, dry packs/pack liners.

There are relatively few bushwalking routes/destinations in Tasmania where fires are permitted, except in huts. Take matches and a lighter for your stove, but that's all you need.

[kmcgreg]

Well a big thanks to this site and all who have helped. I think we are pretty well equipped now for most things. Now I am very poor but all ready to start walking. Will do our first walk with this stuff next week.

Here is what we ended up getting:



Tents
• 2 x 2 Man Exped Venus II Extreme Tents
Backpacks
• One Planet Macmillan 85L
• One Planet Styx 2 65L
• Osprey Ariel 65L
• Osprey Aura 50L
Head Torches
• Petzl TIKKA XP² with Red LED - 80 Lumens Headlamp

Sleeping Bags:
• Sea to Summit Traverse XTII Sleeping Bags
• STS Silk Liners – for normal conditions
• STS Thermolite® Reactor Extreme Liners: when really cold!

Sleeping Mats:
• Ether Thermo 6 Sleeping Mat
Safety
• SteriPen
• ACR ResQLink 406 MHz Buoyant PLB
• ACR First Aid Kit: Supplemented with extras including Setopress compression bandage for snake bite.
Navigation
• Silva Field Compass
• Maps
• Iphone 5 with preloaded maps and apps such as MotionGPX, Everytrail
Sacks
• STS Compression Dry Sacks – medium and large
• STS Pack liners
• STS Trash Pack
Cooking
• MSR Windpro ii stove
• MSR Quick 2 Pot Set
• MSR Alpine Kitchen Set
• Sea to Summit X-Bowls and X-Mugs – and sporks
• Optinel Knife
• Light my fire Firesteel 2.0
• Microfibre towels

Hydration: Various Nalgene and other water bottles 0.75 to 1 litre capacity
Wet Weather/ Hiking Gear
• Mont Austral and Siena Overpants
• Macpac Resolution Event Jackets
• Gaiters

Warm Clothes:
Icebreaker Merino layers
Polarfleece jackets.
Beanies, Gloves

Dont think I am missing too much. Happy Hiking

[Strider]

Dont think I am missing too much. Happy Hiking

What about whistles?
http://www.fox40world.com/index.cfm?PAG ... UCTID=2571

[ninjapuppet]

Nice bit of kit you're set yourself up there.

I sometimes use an iphone 4 with mudmaps to log my day trips, rather than the garmin hand held. After 2 years, the batteries cant hold the charge like it used to but still manages to log a good 6 hours of solid walking.
I also use strava run to log my progress - its a really good free app you should try.

on overnighters, I sometimes bring one of these to charge up the iphone. Its got a couple of outlets so you can charge up your whole family's iphones!
about $80 bucks from amazon

http://www.isound.net/shop-by-type/accessories/i-sound-portable-power-16000-mah.html