Archive:Joint ACC/VOC Garibaldi Neve Traverse 2010
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Date
March 19th - 21st, 2010
- Note: This trip may be cancelled or postponed based on weather and avalanche conditions.
Pre-Trip Meeting
Date: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: VOC Clubroom
Route
Difficulty
B3/4
Up to 8 hours per day - rope will be taken for glacier travel. Participants should be fit, reasonably strong skiers, and able to carry and ski with a multi-day backpack.
Equipment
Personal items are in regular font, shared items are in italic font
Essentials
- water bottle (at least 2L, unless you know yourself)
- headlamp and batteries
- sunscreen
- sun glasses and/or goggles
- map
- compass
- backpack
- pocket knife
- whistle
- lighter and/or waterproof matches
- first aid kit
- Toilet Paper
- tent
Clothing / Equipment
- warm jacket (fleece or down)
- long underwear (top and bottom)
- toque / hat
- mitts / gloves
- weatherproof jacket (goretex or coated nylon or softshell if weather is forecast to be sunny)
- weatherproof pants (goretex or coated nylon or softshell if weather is forecast to be sunny)
- hiking poles?
- gaiters (optional if your pants have an integrated snow cuff)
Food
- Lunch and snacks x3
- Breakfast x2
- Dinner x2
Sleeping
- sleeping bag
- sleeping pad
- ear plugs, because somebody will snore (optional)
Cooking and Eating
- bowl, spoon
- Stove with fuel. If using white gas, for each person bring 250 mL
- Pot and matching pot gripper
- Toothbrush
Ski hardware
- ski helmet (optional) (most climbing helmets do not protect from frontal or side impacts and are not acceptable substitutes)
- skis (must have touring bindings that allow the heel to be free) or a split snowboard
- skins for going uphill. They must fit your skis and have reasonable glue. Test them.
- bindings. Applies particularly for splitboards.
- poles
- boots to match your skis or snowboard - there are many different kinds of binding interfaces. Make sure to test that both your boots fit into your bindings before the trip.
- ski repair kit
Avalanche Safety Gear
- 457kHz avalanche transceiver (with batteries, tested in advance)
- shovel
- probe
- snow saw (optional)
- rutschblock cord (optional)
- loupe (optional)
- crystal card (optional)
- CAC Avaluator card (optional)
- CAC Public Avalanche Bulletin Printout{{#if:1|
===Climbing Gear===}}
- ice axe
- harness
- belay device
- carabiners
- rope
- prussik cords
Contact info
ACC Group: Rob Brusse (rbrusse1 at telus dot net)
VOC Group: Christian Champagne
Over a dozen ACCers are interested in this trip, and should have car spaces for most of the people who have signed up. Rob is going to evaluate the situation (avalanche & weather conditions & forecast) as it becomes known on Wednesday afternoon to determine the go / no go decision.
Sign up
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- Max: 12
- Champagne
- Janine
- Jacob
- Ben Singleton-Polster - Wants to travel North to South (conditional on weather)
- Frances Sharpe - Wants to travel North to South (conditional on weather)
- Phil - Game with traveling either direction
- Vicky - Prefer to travel North to South, that means that's what Phil wants to do too.
- Merick Mortiz - Wants to travel North South
- Kristian D - Whichever way is better for tall newbs
Waiting List
Rides
Please indicate here if you have a car, where you are leaving from and how many people you can transport.
Jacob (13th & Arbutus)
- (cozy)
Carless People
For people that don't have a car
- Name, leaving location
- Champagne (Park Dr. & Granville)
- Janine (Gage Towers, UBC)
- Kristian (SW Marine @ Dunbar)