WAIPU CAVING TRIP CHECKLIST
Personal Equipment
Caving Equipment
All
- Clothes (five days/four nights plus spares)
- Cap or sunhat
- Shirts
- Sweatshirt
- Warm jacket (for evenings)
- Underwear (remember extras for caving)
- Pants - short or long (something practical for daytime and something warm for the evenings)
- Sleepwear
- Socks (remember extras for caving)
- Raincoat
- Shoes (suitable for walking around hillsides)
- Plastic bag(s) for dirty clothes
- Toiletries - shampoo, soap, flannel, toothbrush, toothpaste
- Towels (x2)
- Pillow (if you're a big softy like Ian)
Alexander
- Cards
- DVD(?)
- Portable CD player
- Book
Joel
- CDs
- MP3 Player
- Headphones or portable speakers (if owned)
- Mobile phone
- MP3/mobile phone chargers
- DVD(?)
- Book
Ian
- Asthma inhaler
- Battery rechargers (eg, AA/AAA charger, cellphone charger, camera charger, spotlight charger, powerpack cig lighter cord)
- Camera, waterproof case, tripod, USB cable
- Laptop
- Electronics toolkit
- Walkie talkies
- Tape adapter for CD/MP3 players
6 October 2007
Alexander/Joel
- Caving clothes - polypropylene thermal underwear, long sleeved shirt and long pants preferred (something to cover knees is good)
- Caving shoes
- Extra tea towel for helmet
- Headlamp
- Spare torch desireable
- Polypropylene underwear
- Scroggin
Ian
- Backpack (shared)
- Cave maps
- Caving shoes (in addition to walking shoes)
- Climbing harness
- First aid kit
- Headlamp
- Spare torch
- Rechargeable batteries (AAA for headlamps, AA for other)
- Helmets x 3
- Extra tea towel for helmet
- Polypropylene underwear (2 sets)
- Overalls (to be fixed)
- Scroggin (shared, remember to pace oneself if caving several days)
Camping Equipment
"Kitchen" Equipment
All
- Pocketknife
- Sleeping bag, pillow, blanket (if your sleeping bag isn't toasty warm)
Alexander
- Insect repellant
- Tent
Joel
- Insect repellant (if possible)
Ian
- Air mattress
- Air pistol, gas cartridges, pellets, targets
- Camp fire story
- Compact fluorescent worklamps
- Compass
- Duct tape
- Folding camp chair
- Gas lantern and cartridge
- Groundsheets, picnic rug(s)
- Multiplug box and extension lead
- Mosquito repelling candles
- Plug for washbasin in toilet room
- Power inverter (230V, up to 300W, 120-160Wh)
- Ropes and clothes pegs
- Rubbish bags
- Solar shower
- Spotlights
- Sun/wind shelter
All
- Drink bottle
- Tea towels x2 for drying dishes
Ian
- Chilly bin, freezer pads and 3L bottle of frozen water (lasts at least 3 days)
- Dishwashing bowl
- Eating equipment (plates, bowls, cups, cutlery)
- Gas stoves and spare cartridges
- Hand sanitiser
- Kitchen knife - could make do with pocket knife and extra plate (hard plastic)
- Magnesium firelighting block
- Matches and lighter
- Saucepans
- Suitcase picnic table
- Tissues or paper towels
- Water containers (soft drink or 3L juice bottles - one will be frozen)
Anyone
- Cutting board
- Detergent
- Potato peeler (for grating carrots)
- Stainless steel frying pan
To-Do Before Trip
To-Do During Trip
All
- By Tuesday morning be all ready to go
- Shopping!
- Sort out Joel's gear, thermals, helmet, etc
- Sort out 1.5/3L water bottles
- Remember to pack light (and I don't mean illumination)
- Sort out a dinner menu
Alexander
- Check headlamp is in good working condition
Joel
- Check with Ian/Alexander that this list is good
- Add/take off stuff from list
Ian
- Wait for extra gas stove to arrive
- Print camp fire story and hire DVD
- Sort out headlamp
- All the basic stuff
- Camp fire
- Caving
- Check for cellphone messages/missed calls, call home
- Cooking and eating marshmallows and chocolate wheatens
- Drinking
- Eating
- Having fun
- Listening to music
- Reading
- Swimming in cold cave stream (at midnight?)
- Talking
- Target practise
- Toasting jet planes
- Walking
- Warming Sparkling Duet
- Watching a DVD
- Wrestling
- Actually having dessert!!!
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