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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.Helpful everyday items.
Wed 08 Sep, 2010 9:32 pm
Tarp and singlet.
Pre-amble:
I started walking in Tassie, thinking to avoid all the dear gear. Mistaken of course, but there is a middle way. (The gearfreak is not a mythical beast and roams, never truly satisfied, deep within the psyche...)
So once you've forked out say, $1.5k for the "big 3+2(+2)" : -Pack -Mat -Jacket
-Tent + -Stove + -Boots
-Bag
the main game is done and the imagination can play. Ideas about weight reduction run free. I think,Tas.walking is a useful model to work back from, all the way up to the Kimberlys. ( Used to say 3+2(+1), because Boots are flexible. You could spend a week in the south west with joggers, if you forgot to pack the Asolos. )
Crux:
Cheap, blue 6x4 Tarp. 300gms. Tent floor protection for a very wet island, but other uses as well. Slips nicely into pack top
pocket (Cascade). Mine is 6'3"x 4'3" and fits perfectly under a Microlight so apologies, as this advice is particular to that tent size. But so hard to find that size; they often cut them smaller and leave floor edges widely unprotected.
Singlet, Holeproof (not Bonds): all cotton, but lightweight enough not to carry too much water and similarly, dries out from body warmth quite quickly. A great stink absorber and a flannel when stream washing: do your body,then the singlet then wring it out and put it on. It seems to work. Save money on the dear Merino wear that'll probably get moth holed within a season.
Pre-amble:
I started walking in Tassie, thinking to avoid all the dear gear. Mistaken of course, but there is a middle way. (The gearfreak is not a mythical beast and roams, never truly satisfied, deep within the psyche...)
So once you've forked out say, $1.5k for the "big 3+2(+2)" : -Pack -Mat -Jacket
-Tent + -Stove + -Boots
-Bag
the main game is done and the imagination can play. Ideas about weight reduction run free. I think,Tas.walking is a useful model to work back from, all the way up to the Kimberlys. ( Used to say 3+2(+1), because Boots are flexible. You could spend a week in the south west with joggers, if you forgot to pack the Asolos. )
Crux:
Cheap, blue 6x4 Tarp. 300gms. Tent floor protection for a very wet island, but other uses as well. Slips nicely into pack top
pocket (Cascade). Mine is 6'3"x 4'3" and fits perfectly under a Microlight so apologies, as this advice is particular to that tent size. But so hard to find that size; they often cut them smaller and leave floor edges widely unprotected.
Singlet, Holeproof (not Bonds): all cotton, but lightweight enough not to carry too much water and similarly, dries out from body warmth quite quickly. A great stink absorber and a flannel when stream washing: do your body,then the singlet then wring it out and put it on. It seems to work. Save money on the dear Merino wear that'll probably get moth holed within a season.
Re: Helpful everyday items.
Wed 08 Sep, 2010 9:45 pm
Drat! Why does it re-format the post and request me to log-in again?
As a model mnemonic; once you're in the taxi it's too late and you'll have to rent gear in Hobart:
The Big 3+2 (+2) : -Pack -Mat -Jacket (Tent: 2 items! Pole/s and the guts)
-Tent + -Stove + -Boots (Stove: Fuel- Hobart or Derwnt Bridge Visitors Ctr,but check!)
-Bag
(Please pass safely on the right. One fingered typist at work).
As a model mnemonic; once you're in the taxi it's too late and you'll have to rent gear in Hobart:
The Big 3+2 (+2) : -Pack -Mat -Jacket (Tent: 2 items! Pole/s and the guts)
-Tent + -Stove + -Boots (Stove: Fuel- Hobart or Derwnt Bridge Visitors Ctr,but check!)
-Bag
(Please pass safely on the right. One fingered typist at work).
Re: Helpful everyday items.
Wed 08 Sep, 2010 9:47 pm
Still doesn't work. Back to school...
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