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
Gear
Entertainment
- Ben will bring a small deck of cards
- Book ????
Group
- 2x pots (Ben will bring a ????L and a ??????L)
- 2x stoves (doubled with Alpine)
- water treatment (pristine drops - 60ml)
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 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
- 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 (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 spare batteries
- Altimeter
- Sat phone
- 1x pot scrapers
- 1x spondonacles
- Fuel Email faff about how much
- (Madeleine) Extra salt and pepper
==== Repair kit ==== (Christian and Line)
- Tent Repair
- Binding repair
- goretex patches
- thermarest patch kit
- spare thermarest valve ????
Eating
- Bowl/measuring cup
- Spoon
- Nalgene
- 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 How do we want to divide this stuff????????????????
Supplements
- 2 servings Protein Goo per day
- multivitamin
Drugs:
- T3 pain killers
- Cephalexen (broad spectrum antibiotic)
- 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
Trip Plan
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