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Gear for Winter Mountaineering: What Are Your Must-Haves?

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Jon Peterson · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2024 · Points: 0

Hi everyone, I'm planning a winter mountaineering trip and would love some advice on essential gear. I was planning to go on a winter expedition, and I'm trying to make sure I have everything I need. What are your must-have items for staying safe and comfortable in cold conditions? Any recommendations for lightweight and durable gear would be appreciated!

Demetri V · · Farmington, CT · Joined Jul 2019 · Points: 132

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FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276
Jon Peterson wrote:

Hi everyone, I'm planning a winter mountaineering trip and would love some advice on essential gear. I was planning to go on a winter expedition, and I'm trying to make sure I have everything I need. What are your must-have items for staying safe and comfortable in cold conditions? Any recommendations for lightweight and durable gear would be appreciated!

Where will you be mountaineering?

Grant Tobin · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2021 · Points: 0
Jon Peterson wrote:

Hi everyone, I'm planning a winter mountaineering trip and would love some advice on essential gear. I was planning to go on a winter expedition, and I'm trying to make sure I have everything I need. What are your must-have items for staying safe and comfortable in cold conditions? Any recommendations for lightweight and durable gear would be appreciated!

What is...a bot?

Climbing Weasel · · Massachusetts · Joined May 2022 · Points: 0

Smart wool extra thick hunter socks, macadamia nuts for long lasting energy and quick calories on the move, and good liner gloves. If this guy is a bot I’ll eat a piton. 

The Traddest Dad · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined Sep 2016 · Points: 0

My checklist for winter mountaineering:

- one forty-five caliber automatic

- two boxes of ammunition

- four days' concentrated emergency rations

- one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills

- one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible

- one hundred dollars in rubles

- one hundred dollars in gold

- nine packs of chewing gum

- one issue of prophylactics

- three lipsticks

- three pair of nylon stockings. 

Michael Catlett · · Middleburg, VA · Joined Oct 2014 · Points: 175

It really depends on where you are going, how you are getting there, and how long you were be there.

Dropped off by a plane in Alaska and pulling a sled through Patagonia are two different propositions.

Jon Peterson · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2024 · Points: 0
The Traddest Dad wrote:

My checklist for winter mountaineering:

- one forty-five caliber automatic

- two boxes of ammunition

- four days' concentrated emergency rations

- one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills

- one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible

- one hundred dollars in rubles

- one hundred dollars in gold

- nine packs of chewing gum

- one issue of prophylactics

- three lipsticks

- three pair of nylon stockings. 

What's the lipstick for? haha

DeLa Cruce · · SWEDEN · Joined Nov 2018 · Points: 0

Ice axe and crampons. 

Ackley The Improved · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2020 · Points: 0

Extra fuel

Big B · · Reno, NV · Joined Mar 2015 · Points: 1
Jon Peterson wrote:

What's the lipstick for? haha

the pig...duh

snug · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 0

If I were to pick the essential gears for winter mountaineering, it would be the stove and the headlamp.

Ignacio Van Oosterwyjk · · Raleigh, NC · Joined Jul 2024 · Points: 178

Extra food, lithium battery, extra batteries for my head lamp, belaying jacket 900 down, pants outer shell & what saves me every winter...1 liter primus termos with hot cocoa. Game changer adding that extra litter to the usual liquids i carry. Climbing or glacier travel

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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