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On the Hill: what do you carry and how do you carry?

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#1 ·
Hi,

When you hit the slopes, either a resort away from your place or your local hill, what do you carry and how?

In my case I have a local hill where normally I carry only my wallet, keys, phone, a beanie and that's it. Everything else I leave inside the car, where the parking lot is no more than 3 minutes away from the base.

Then, any other resort, I carry a little more things in a 26l/34l backpack with compress strips to make all the weight close to my back, but I leave a few things in a locker, so:

Water bottle: 500ml (backpack)
Smooth bottle 01: 500ml (backpack)
Smooth bottle 02: 1L (locker)
-- banana + pineapple + strawberry + oat + water, this combination keeps my sugar levels high and normally I drink during the day leaving some backup on the locker in case that I need more. I suggested you guys to try, because it's healthy and it really helps to keep your energy up.
Fruit bars: 4 units (backpack)
-- 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon.
Personal stuff like wallet, keys, action camera, phone, digital camera and one warm layer just in case that the weather change.

In the locker I leave regular pants, snowboard bag and everything that I don't need with me.

Later in the season I can take pictures and share over here :)
 
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#5 ·
Everything in my jacket or pants pockets. Phone, army knife key ring, cash or card, snowboard tool, lip balm, goggle wipe.

All simple stuff. Not that hard to duck into the base areas for a drink every few hours and I head back to my car at lunch time to eat and swap boards.
 
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A Glock 19 strong side inside the waistband. Haha, no, I'm kidding but that's what I was thinking this thread was talking about when I clicked on it.

On the real topic, I tote around some pretty basic stuff only.

Cellphone, of course. Front jacket zipper pocket.
Wallet and keys, of course, front pant zippered pocket.

I'm prone to dehydration, so last year I carried one of those soft collapsible water bottles that I found at the grocery store. It's like the stuff runners carry but I'm sure much less technical (it was $10). Take a drink at the top of the run, fill it up at the bottom when I run out. Inside jacket pocket in the pouch that I think is meant for your goggles.

3 or 4 energy bars. Other front jacket zipper pocket. These were mainly for my son who tended to want to ski fast and hard all day, totally ignoring hunger, thirst, or the need to pee. So I would try to catch up to him for the chairlift and get him to take bites of the energy bar on the way up.

EDC flashlight and EDC multitool wrapped up together with some paracord. The other front pant zippered pocket. I guess these are the only two weird things but I habitually carry a knife, multitool and flashlight everyday, so for me it was actually a matter of dropping the quick release knife from my carry since I didn't want some crazy crash/spill causing me to stab myself.

We just kept all the other stuff: spare clothes, sunscreen, chapstick, food, drinks (non-water variety) in the lockers at the base area.
 
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wow.

Local hills: wallet, car keys and ski lock in pants pocket. Phone and goggle wipe cloth in jacket pocket.

Away: same as above plus backpack with ~2L hydropak, a little bakoda multi-tool, extra goggle lens and face mask. Also carry protein bars which I always forget about and end up getting all mushy...

I'd rather stop for half+ hour than carry 20 unnecessary lbs on my back for the whole day.
 
#15 ·
This.....



....in a CamelBak pack! >:)
 

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In resort: two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole multi colored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.

Backcountry I like to carry a sandwich.
 
#24 ·
In-bounds I usually take pretty basic stuff (phone, wallet, keys). I still haven't figured out a good way to carry water, but that and a small snack is all I would ever need (any maybe the odd beer if its one of 'those' days).

A lot of places in BC don't have phone reception, so I started taking an inreach satellite communicator as well (especially when alone). I'm pretty sure that if you hit a tree / rock, fell in a hole etc you could be there for days before anyone found you.
 
#30 ·
You know? I took that to the letter. Salvia, DMT, Lucy, Teonanacatl...and few RC. A nice San pedro grows in the backyard and I just collected a ton of Glory seeds. I need to plant some Syrian Rue. I have seeds.
 
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#29 ·
Keys
$$$
phone
Radio
3 cravats
6 4x4 dressings
3 2x6 dressings
multiple different sized adhesive bandages
Tape
large Sam splint
finger splint
multi purpose tool/knife
headlamp
scissors
glucose gel
blank incident reports
small notebook
pens
multiple non-latex gloves
CPR mask
roller gauze
Pen light
Oropharyngeal airways
Nasopharyngeal airways

I think that is all....
 
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