Equipment
Personal Equipment Recommendations
- Access to Internet – all of TERT business is conducted by email. If you don’t have email, you won’t be receiving week-end reports and general announcements.
- Proper clothing for assignment (note that winter-like conditions often prevail so be prepared – especially at High Camp)
- Sleeping bag and pad
- Day pack
- Flashlight, headlight
- Cooking gear
- Water bottles
- Sunglasses, sunscreen
- Map and compass
- Notebook and pencils
- Binoculars
- Personal First Aid Kit
- Food – 2 each of dinner, lunch, & breakfast
- Cooking equipment & cleanup
- Communicators
- Synthesized 2 meter radio with antenna
- Extra ½ wave or 5/8-wave antenna
- Plastic sack or some means to keep radio dry
- Enough batteries for 3 day use
- Radio code and protocol sheet
- Note: public service radio provided
- Trail Head and Low Camp
- Stove for cooking
- Tent if sleeping out
- Water is usually available
- High Camp (in addition to above….)
- Back pack
- Day pack
- High altitude winter clothing
- Note: stoves, water purification filter, tents, ice axes, climbing equipment & medical equipment provided
Do Not Bring
- Guns
- Alcohol
- Dog to High Camp unless you have team leader permission
The Ten Essentials
Basic items that EVERYONE should have on EVERY backcountry trip – “The Mountaineer’s”-Seattle
- a map of the area
- a compass
- a flashlight with extra bulb and batteries
- extra food
- extra clothing, including rain gear
- sunglasses and sunscreen
- a pocketknife
- matches in waterproof container
- a candle or other fire starter
- a first aid kit