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PERSONAL EQUIPMENT REQUIREMENTS

Everyone has to have:

  • Access to Internet - all of TERT business is conducted by email.  If you don't have email, you won't be receiving week-end reports and general announcements.
  • Proper clothing for assignment (note that winter-like conditions often prevail so be prepared – especially at High Camp)
  • Sleeping bag and pad
  • Day pack
  • Flashlight, headlight
  • Cooking gear
  • Water bottles
  • Sunglasses, sunscreen
  • Map and compass
  • Notebook and pencils
  • Binoculars
  • Personal First Aid Kit
  • Food - 2 each of dinner, lunch, & breakfast
  • Cooking equipment & cleanup

Communicators

  • Synthesized 2 meter radio with antenna
  • Extra ˝ wave or 5/8-wave antenna
  • Plastic sack or some means to keep radio dry
  • Enough batteries for 3 day use
  • Radio code and protocol sheet
  • Note: public service radio provided

Trail Head and Low Camp

  • Stove for cooking
  • Tent if sleeping out
  • Water is usually available

High Camp (in addition to above….)

  • Back pack
  • Day pack
  • High altitude winter clothing
  • Note: stoves, water purification filter, tents, ice axes, climbing equipment & medical equipment provided.

Do Not Bring

  • Guns
  • Alcohol
  • Dog to High Camp unless you have team leader permission.

THE TEN ESSENTIALS (actually fifteen; well, maybe twenty)
Basic items that EVERYONE should have onEVERY backcountry trip - "The Mountaineer's"-Seattle
1.  a map of the area
2.  a compass
3.  a flashlight with extra bulb and batteries
4.  extra food
5.  extra clothing, including rain gear
6.  sunglasses and sunscreen
7.  a pocketknife
8.  matches in waterproof container
9.  a candle or other fire starter
10.  a first aid kit


Strongly Recommended
     full water bottle + water treatment
     ground insulation (sit pad)
     emergency blanket
     signaling devices - whistle/mirror
     shelter - tube or tent or bivy sack


Special Environments
     shovel (snow)
     stove with fuel
     a pan and cover
     avalanche cord or avalanche transceiver
     rescue pulley

 

Cold and rainny summer day at High Camp