Here’s what I typically take for a 2-day trip of easy mountaineering at 3000m in Japan (sleeping in a mountain hut):
- Clothing
- Hardshell jacket and trousers (Mountain Equipment Tupilak/Mammut Eiger Nordwand)
- Thermal base layer trousers (Icebreaker merino or OMM Core)
- Merino base layer
- Midlayer jacket (Mountain Equipment Lumiko)
- Insulated jacket (Mountain Equipment Switch Pro, La Sportiva Combin if it’s going to be cold and dry…)
- Belay jacket (Mountain Equipment Shelterstone)
- 2 x pairs of outer gloves
- Liner gloves
- Mittens for belaying and when it’s really cold (Mountain Equipment Citadel or Heritage Inc. down)
- Approach gloves
- Thermal Buff (head)
- Regular Buff (neck)
- Goggles
- Cat-IV sunglasses
- Down trousers (for the hut)
- Down booties (for the hut)
- Footwear
- Double mountaineering boots (La Sportiva G-Summit)
- Climbing crampons (Petzl Lynx)
- Microspikes
- Climbing gear
- 50 or 60m rope
- 2 x axes (Petzl Quark)
- Harness
- Belay/rappel gear
- PAS
- 3 or 4 slings
- 3 or 4 HMS extra screw gate carabiners
- Ice screws
- 10m of tat and some Quicklinks in case I need to make (and leave) an anchor
- Helmet
- Other stuff
- 1 x collapsible trekking pole (Heritage Inc. UL)
- 1L Nalgene
- 500ml thermal flask
- Lots of snacks
- Hydration drink powder (Humaneed)
- Kindle
- First aid kit
- Emergency bag
- Whistle
- Leatherman
- Spare hat, Buff and gloves
- Headtorch
- Garmin eTrex GPS
- Paper map
- Compass
- External battery for phone charging