TRAMPING KIT

DAY TRIPS

WHAT YOU NEED as a MINIMUM for a DAY TRIP - all carried in a good day back-pack

  • If you need essential medication make sure you take two days supply, and
  • a complete change of clothes could or should be left in the bus whilst you are tramping

OVER-NIGHT TRIPS

WHAT YOU NEED as a MINIMUM for a LONGER (overnight) TRIP - all carried in a well packed rucksack with liner

  • If you need essential medication make sure you take two days supply, and
  •  a complete change of clothes could or should be left in the bus whilst you are tramping

  • Boots, waterproof parka and light over-trousers, spare warm clothing (wool or fibre fleece)

  • Warm hat and gloves

  • Survival "space" foil blanket or bag

  • Torch (LED Head Torch is best as it leaves your hands free & batteries last) and candle, water-proof matches and toilet paper

  • First Aid kit - including water purifying tablets

  • Fire-lighting materials - [waterproof matches or zip lighter, fire-lighter or piece of rubber]

  • Relevant map, compass, pen and paper and, for the techno freaks

  • GPS plus your reading glasses if you wear such things

NOTES / EXTRAS

  1. NEW ONE from the Himalayan Trekkers  - "A folding umbrella" - some laugh but this works well on non-windy days!

  2. Lunch: This is your personal selection, a hot drink is advisable on a cooler day plus a filled water bottle, or better still, a water bladder so you can drink on the move. Some over-the-counter SPORTS GELS give an immediate energy boost

  3. A seemingly uneventful trip could be held up for some reason and evenings and nights can be cold – so be prepared

 In addition to the DAY TRIP kit:

Something to sleep in (Seeping bag, liner, mattress and tent if no hut - if you are a hardened tramper than perhaps just a fly sheet without tent!)

Something to feed yourself with  (Stove, gas supplies, matches, billy can or other cooking pot, eating utensils - and of course FOOD)

Gear for use in the hut / tent (Light weight footwear, complete change of clothing - dry, light and warm)

Toilet stuff (Even trampers  clean teeth, wash their face or feet so soap, wash flannel and micro-fibre towel)

"Cough medicine" (Otherwise known as a wee tipple if you are that way inclined since on the last over-nighter there was no port to help relax)