Kit lists
General Stuff
Clothing
- Underwear
- T-Shirt or Shirt
- Fleece or Pullover
- Windproof fleece
- Outdoor trousers
- Thick socks
- Waterproof Jacket
- Waterproof Trousers
- Long Johns
Other
- Rucksack
- Food for the day
- Waterbottle
- Penknife or Swiss Army Officers Knife
- Tissues or Handkerchief
- Small First Aid Kit, Emergency Blanket and blister plasters
- Sun glasses
- Sun tan lotion
- Lipcare
- Torch
- Biwi sack
- Hat (for rain and sun)
Documents etc
- EHIC card
- Travel insurance
- Passport
- Money
- Credit/debit cards
- Driving licence (plastic and paper parts for hiring cars)
- Travel tickets
- Watch
- Altimeter/GPS
- (Spare glasses)
- Mobile phone and charger
- Power adapter for other countries
- Maps and map case
- Guidebooks
- Compass
- Whistle
- BMC card/Reciprocal hut card/AV card
- Copies of documents and addresses and phone numbers for emergencies (possibly in on-line e-mail account)
- Camera
- Spare batteries
- Video camera edititng suite/SLR camera and 5 extra lenses/tripods/camera bag selection
- Matches
Hill walking
- Warm hat
- Warm gloves
- Light hill walking boots or trekiking shoes
- Optional: Walking sticks
Via Ferrata/Klettersteig
- Leather or working gloves (or via ferrata gloves)
- Helmet
- Sit harness
- Chest harness
- Via Ferrate set/Klettersteig set
Alpine Rock
Clothing
- Mountain boots or Rock climbing boots
- Warm hat
- Gloves
Gear
- Sit harness
- Chest harness
- Helmet
- 2 HMS Karabiners
- 2 Screwgates
- 2-3 quick draws
- 1 piece of tape 1m
- 1 piece of tape 2m
- 1 sling 60cm
- 2 slings 120cm
- various nuts
- 2 prussik loops (1.25m and 1.5m x 5mm)
- 1 sling 240cm (or equivalent cord)
Sport climbing
General
- Sit harness
- Helmet
- 1 HMS Karabiner
- 1 Screw gate
- 12 quick draws per team
- 1 sling 60cm
- 1 single rope 60m
- Rock shoes
- Chalk
Multi pitch sport climbing extras
- 2 prussik loops (1.25m and 1.5m x 5mm)
- 1 additional screw gate
On sportingly bolted routes some trad equipment may be required (small set of nuts and a couple of hexes)
Trad climbing
Take everything from the sport climbing section and additionally:
- 20 nuts
- 5-7 hexes
- 3-9 friends
- 2 slings 120cm
- 2 slings 240cm
- as many tri-cams as you can carry
- 3 extra screw gates per second
- some tat
- 1 extra HMS Karabiner
- ...
Multi pitch climbing requires more gear, single pitch climbing less.
Ice
- Mountain boots suitable for crampons
- Fitting crampons
- Knee high gaiters
- Warm hat and gloves
- Scarf or buff
- Glacier glasses
- Sit harness
- Chest harness
- Crampons for boots
- Ice axe
- 2 HMS Karabiners
- 2 Screw gates
- 1 Quickdraw
- 1 piece of tape 2m
- 2 prussik loops (1.25m and 1.5m x 5mm)
- possibly ice screws
Ski touring
- Ski touring boots
- Knee high gaiters
- Warm hat and gloves
- Scarf or buff
- Ski with touring bindings
- Ski sticks
- Steigfelle
- Harscheisen
- Avalanche search gizmo
Multi-day trips
- Change(s) of clothes
- Washbag abnd towel
- Slippers or thick socks
- Sheet bag or sleeping bag