1 Week to go

One week today until the big trip, still lots left to sort out over the next few days. Finally made a start on packing and organizing gear, here's a quick idea of how much stuff I'll be trying to fit in my mate's car along with all of his stuff!... (Gear names included for geek value, and to help me remember everything by typing this epic..)

Climbing Gear

• Cams x 7 (BD Camalots size 0.3 - 3)
• Nuts (Mix of DMM Wallnuts and Offsets)
• Quickdraws x 10 (DMM Phantoms/Spectre 2s/Petzl Ange S)
• Rock Harness (WC Vision for now unless I buy a new one finally)
• Winter Harness (Dmm Super Couloir)
• Petzl Mini Traxion
• Petzl Oval Carabiners, Pulley and Tibloc
• Prussik loops
• Petzl Gri-Gri2
• Petzl Jumar
• WC Nut Key
• Screw Gates +  HMS Carabiners (Mix of WC's and DMM)
• Daisey chain, and slings (Mix of DMM + Grivel)
• Grivel Airtech Walking Axe 53cm
• Petzl Quark axes +  Grivel spring leash
• Grivel G12 Crampons
• Scarpa Charmoz Boots
• WC Alpine Shield Helmet
• La Sportiva Boulder X Approach shoes
• Grivel Himalaya Walking Poles
• 2 pairs of rock shoes (WC Spirits and Spirit VCR's in different sizes)
• Prana chalkbag and Metolius finger tape

and then.....

Clothing

• Marmot Stretchman Waterproof Jacket
• Mountain Hardwear Nitrous Down Jacket
• Marmot Tempo Softshell Jacket
• MH Monkey Man Fleece
• Rab Generator Vest
• Various Icebreaker 200 Tops + bottoms
• Helly Hensen baselayers
• Julbo Bivouak Sunglasses Cat 3 - 4 Lens
• Lots and Lots of different Bridgedale/Icebreaker socks + liners
• Icebreaker Boxers
• Mountain Equipment rainfall pants
• Prana Stretchy Jeans and Bouldering Shorts
• Rab Cirrus Windtop
• Salomon XT Wings running shoes + Salomon shorts
• Mix of Softshell Trousers (ME Gabbro, Arc'Teryx Gamma LT, Rab Fusion)
• Random T-Shirts
• Merino Buff and Beanie

annnd thennn....

Sleeping

• Hilleberg Nallo 2 GT Tent (Climbing partner also taking a MH Trango 2)
• Rab Alpine 400 Down Sleeping bag
• Thermarest Prolite
• Foam Sleeping mat
• Silk liner
• Primus Pots
• Jetboil Sol Ti (yet to be purchased!)
• Primus Omnifuel + Gas
• Cup, Spork, Bowl
• Headtorch and backup emergency headtorch
• First Aid Kit
• Bothy Bag
• Bivi Bag
• Earplugs!

And to carry all this stuff in different ways...

• Mountain Equipment 100L Kit bag
• Exped 70L duffel
• Grivel Alpine 45+10
• Osprey Talon 33
• Exped Cloudburst 15

Then there's toiletries, tools, and food - hopefully be going to a Makro in Manchester luckily to grab some bulk bug bargains. I wonder how long I can live on Heinz Beans for....

More importantly:

Cameras.

• Canon 550d with 18-55 and 55-250 lenses
• Canon S95 (yet to purchase too, as well as insurance cover)

Lots of spare batteries, memory card and etc etc.

Once all this is cleared up, I've still yet to sort BMC Insurance, Post Office travel card, Euro's in cash, buying last bits of gear/food/electronics, and the long needed haircut!

I have to cram all this into the next 7 days, when I'll be working for 4 of them and have pretty much used most of today sorting gear out and recovering from a 13 mile run/hike I got dragged along on last night :)

Well done reading all this, now you have a tiny idea of all the crap floating around my head without the looming prospect of first ever Alpine Climb fear and inevitable joblessness on my return to the UK...