Sunday, April 18, 2010

Technical Gear, and Headwear

The West Buttress route on McKinley isn't as technical as some of the other routes, but there is still glacier travel involved, as well as some technical rope work.  Because of this, you need to take a variety of technical gear to get the job done.  Also, the two biggest places that heat is lost from your body are your feet and your head.  Since we already covered the footwear, I figured next we should address the head:
-- "Black Diamond Half Dome" helmet
-- "Petzl Adjama" harness
-- "Black Diamond" ice axe, with protector
-- "Black Diamond" trekking poles
-- "BCA Tracker" avalanche transceiver (rental, not pictured)
--7 Various "Petzl" and "Metolius" locking and non-locking carabiners
-- "Petzl Ascension" mechanical ascender
-- 6' pre-sewn sling
-- 10' pre-sewn sling
-- 20' nylon parachute cord
-- 25' 6mm rope
-- 12" bungee cords (4 each)
-- "Mountain Hardwear Micro Dome" hat
-- "Mountain Hardwear Power Stretch" balaclava
-- Brimmed hat
-- "Julbo Dolgan" glacier glasses (2 pair)
-- "Extreme Gravity" goggles
..... total full price retail cost:  about $750 (including rental cost for transceiver)

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