Archive:Misty ski trip 2009

Misty Ice Field Traverse 2009

This orphaned page is to help organize the trip being planned by Frances Sharpe, Evan Morris, Megan Anderson, Greta Raymont, Ben Singleton-Polster

Tasks

Still to do:

• Maps (Do we want 1:20 000?) we should water proof these maps
• Organise boat ride
• Give trip plan to someone
• Plan food
• Organize transportation (drop off and pickup)
• Sat phone rental

Gear

Entertainment

• Ben will bring a small deck of cards
• Book ???? E: Suggest 2 or 3 paperbacks.

Group

• 2x pots (Ben will bring a 2????L and a 3????L, Evan has a 1.4L only)
• 2x stoves (doubled with Alpine). E:should we bring a backup stove body?
• water treatment (pristine drops - 60ml)
• Fuel: 150mL per person per day = 5x150x9?

Personal Clothing

• 2 pairs socks
• 2 pairs underwear
• 1 warm lower
• 1 base lower (preferred light, to wear in the sun)
• 1 shell lower
• 1 warm upper
• 1/2 base upper (preferred light, high collar, to wear in the sun)
• 1 shell upper
• toque/balaclava
• down jacket
• 1 pair gloves with removable liners
• 1 pair overmit shells
• 1 pair lightweight gloves to protect hands from sun
• optional gaiters
• camp booties (or equivalent)

Personal Skiing Gear

• Skiis
• Skins
• Poles
• Boots + Liners
• Beacon
• Shovel
• Probe

Personal Small bits

• Voile Straps (4 each - two medium one large one garbage sealer)
• Sunglasses
• Goggles (lighter lenses?)
• Sunscreen
• Sunhat/sunshield/bandana
• nosesheild
• hand sanitizer/soap
• toothbrush
• toothpaste
• dental floss
• TP?
• spf30 or better Lip Balm
• moisturizer with aloe
• small knife, < 50g
• lighter
• menstrual cup for the ladies (better than disposables - if it works for you)
• Birth control (If ya use the stuff)
• whistle
• Compass
• Headlamp spare batteries
• Camera spare batteries

Personal Sleeping

• Sleeping Pad
• Sleeping Bag

Mountain Gear

• 2x 30m ropes (Evan and Ben; maybe buy new lighter ones?)
• 1 iceaxe each
• Secondary super-light axe (?)
• Single long screw with hooker
• Crampons ?
• Harnesses
• Ski crampons ?
• Helmets ?
• 2 prussiks each
• 2 small locking biners each
• 1 large locking biner
• 1 double length sling each
• 2 non-lockers
• 2 prussik minding pulleys total (?)
• 10m rap tat

Group

• Tent (Ben will bring 2 person and someone else will bring a Tarn 3)
• Kickwax??
• Globstopper
• Maps
• Guidebook - photocopy relavent peaks
• GPS with spare batteries - Ben or Meghan
• Altimeter - Evan's watch
• Sat phone - need to sort out rental
• 1x pot scrapers
• 1x spondonacles
• Fuel Email faff about how much
• Extra salt and pepper

Repair kit

• Tent Repair
• Binding repair (Evan has G3 repair kit) (who has a spare toe plate??)
• goretex patches
• thermarest patch kit
• spare thermarest valve ????

Eating

• Bowl/measuring cup
• Spoon
• Nalgenes
• Water Bladder

Not bringing

• Snowsaw
• Pickets
• Rock Pro
• Belay Device

Food

Requirements

• 8 Breakfasts (max 3 warm, min 6 cold)
• 9 Lunches (must be edible as snacks - we will likely not find beaches to eat at)
• 8 Dinners

Transport/Faffing

• Breakfast at ?????
• Dinner at ??????

All dinners will be shared!

• Everyone brings

9 lunches
8 breakfasts
1.3 dinners to share:

Dinner 1 - spaghetti with veggie/bean bolognase sauce and parmesan cheese - Greta

Dinner 2 - blue cheese, parmesan and nut pasta - Greta (everyone can carry a small portion of the meal)

Dinner 3 - ?

Dinner 4 - ?

Dinner 5 - ?

Dinner 6 - ?

Dinner 7 - ?

Dinner 8 - ?

Dinner 9 - ? small emergency meal (just soups??)

Supplements

• 2 servings Protein Goo per day
• multivitamin

Drugs:

• T3 pain killers
• Cephalexen (broad spectrum antibiotic) (This was taken from Whitemantle trip? do we want all the same drugs for 9 days? -->FS)
• ibuprofen

• nitrile gloves
• povidone iodine prep pads
• isopropyl alcohol prep pads
• Ziploc for waste

Bandaging:

• lots of bandaids
• 2nd skin blister pads
• numerous 3x3" and 4x4" sponges
• some non-adherent dressings
• moleskin
• triangular bandage
• tensor bandage
• small rolls of gauze

EMERGENCY CONTACTS

Ben Singleton Polster

Name: Genevieve Singleton
Relationship: Mother
Day Phone: 250 746 8052
Cell Phone: 250 701 1054 Email: twinflower [] telus.net

Frances Sharpe

Name: Heather McCoy/Ian Sharpe
Relationship: Parents
Day Phone: 250.877.9237 (cell)
Evening Phone: 250.847.8971 (home)
Email: sharpemccoy@telus.net

People to inform if something unexpected happens

Emergency contacts (above)
Ben's work: Thurber Engineering 604 684 4384

NTS maps with the planned alpine route:

The Baldwin Ski guide - includes the route being followed after they get over Brig.

Contacts en route

Fill in maybe none????????????

Overdue dates

They are considered overdue, and rescue should be called if they don't make contact, and attempts to contact them via the sat phone fail