SPONSOR THE TEAM
Equipment and Source of Supply
Individual equipment supplied by Challenge team Members:
Essentials for the night
- Tent, bivvy bag or large bin bag/plastic survival bag
- Sleeping bag
- Thermarest/camping mat.
- Plastic bag to put any wet clothes in.
- Food/drink for the evening and the next morning –
Food and drink – take pre packed bars/banana flask of tea/coffee up the mountain – this will be enough to get you down the hill for breakfast at the van.
If you have two rucksacks – pack one for over night on Snowdon this can then be exchanged for a light weight sac at the breakfast stop at the foot of the mountain next morning.
- Rucksack
- Rucksack Liner
- Map (O/S Explorer OL17 Snowdon 1:25,000)
- Compass
- Whistle
- Survival bag
- Waterproofs
- Small personal first aid kit (to include Compeed)
- Change of clothes in case your clothes get wet with rain/sweat
- Warm fleece
- Hat
- Gloves
- Head torch and spare batteries
- Spare set of Boot laces (count the number of eyelets on your boots before you purchase)
- Sun cream
- Lipsalve
- Individual first Aid kit/Vaseline (ideal for “joggers nipple”)
- Toilet paper/Wet wipes are better
- Radios? (to communicate with support)
Optional:
- Mobile phone
- Camera?
- Walking Poles
- Gaiters
- Drinks bottle (marked with your name) filled with what ever soft drink YOU prefer.
- Talcum Powder.
Group Equipment with Challenge Group
Fire Fly – Alex McGregor
GPS – Stefan Huws
Full mountain First Aid kit – Alex McGregor
Light weight walking rope – Ashley Pierce
Group Shelter (Zarski sack) – Alex McGregor
Group Equipment with Support Group
- Food and drink
- A smaller individual rucksack for personal effects not carried
- Possibly a change of clothes for each participant.
- Major First Aid kit – Alex McGregor
- Radios and spare batteries – (Coleg Llandrillo Rhyl)
- Cooking Equipment – Alex McGregor
- Tentage - Challenge team members
Some thoughts on equipment & wet weather preparation
It has been known to rain occasionally in Wales - and it could be that this is the greatest challenge that the challenge team will be facing on the hill. Bad weather just needs the right mind-set combined with the best preparation - and it can be overcome!
I'd like to start with a guiding principle: NOTHING IS WATERPROOF - and this begins with your expensive Gore-Tex coat and extends to the boots you'll be wearing and to the sack you'll be carrying.
It's worth at this stage being paranoid about this.
In addition steer clear of all things cotton e.g. T – Shirts, underwear – once they are wet they stay wet for a long time, but whatever you use make sure it's comfortable.
Your rucksack will need 2 waterproof liners - one for the whole sack plus one for your sleeping bag/dry kit - also make sure that your hat and gloves “live” in their own bag - and the same for your wallet and mobile phone.
You should carry 2 x small towels or flannels - one is for yourself and one is for drying the inside of your tent or bivi bag. Also useful for drying yourself and for taking care of your feet is some foot talc - weighs next to nothing and it’s a real treat!
