Here’s a peek at what some of our staff pack in their day ski touring bags.
HAYDEN ROBBINS
Guide and Operations Manager
Main compartment
- Repair kit/first aid kit
- Guides/Rescue tarp
- Mini therma rest
- Lunch
- Snack sack
- Water
- Cordelette, carabiners, triple length sling
- Radio
- Satellite communicator (inreach)
- Layers (weather depending) – always pack my bonus vest
- Gloves x 3 varying weights
- Ball cap
- Toque
- Goggles
Tool compartment
- Shovel
- Probe
- Snow saw
- Sam splint
- Snow science kit
Top lid pocket
- Sunglasses
- Sunscreen
- Skin wax/scraper
- Ski straps
- buff
FRANK RENAUD
Lead Practicum
32 L Dakine bag
- 3 antenna transceiver
- Probe (3m+ for our deep snow)
- Shovel (metal)
- saw ( silky in g3 sleeve because it actually cut trees not like those useless snow science saw…)
- First aid kit
- Repair kit
- Inreach
- small tarp
- Rope kit ( will vary according to objectives but usually just 15m of 5mm techcord, 120cm slings, 60cm slings, 2x non locking biners and 2 x locking biners)
- big puffy
- extra gloves
- Sunglass
- Ski google
- Sun screen
- water/tea
- Real food (like those whitecap lunchs! staying away from eating those cliff bars things everyday…)
- Headlamp
- Multitool
- Scrapper
- Skins
MICHELLE “MEESH” MORAN
Chef
Favorite Item
- a thermos filled with miso
Snacks/Food
- a delicious wrap or leftover spanakopita or my new favorite onigirazu
- dried fruit & nuts
- fruit bars
- tahini almond cherry cookies
- hi-chews/gummies
- candied salmon bites
Always in my bag
- shovel
- probe
- headlamp
- spare transceiver batteries
- hand/toe warmers
- duct tape
- zap straps
- leather man
- fire striker & small piece of a bike tire
- pocket ski scrapper
- lip balm
- Kleenex
- Water
- Goggles (spare lens) & sunglasses
- Ski mitts & spare light gloves
- Spare toque & buff
- Hat & Helmet
- Puffy jacket
