what do you carry on trips?

I bet you Herman Buhl never carried hand-sanitizer or iodine tablets!!!
Hand-sanitizer, iodine tablets......you guys are becoming regular Howard Hughes!!
The whole filter your water thing was a massive scam perpetrated by the filter manufactures to get you punters to buy their stuff. Sure some people have contracted Giardia but if you use ANY sense at all.... really..think about it......making water from snow in winter poses 99.99999999999% security...( Head shaking emoticon if there was one!)


With every post the list grows longer,
PLD's, whistles, stretchers, Gps and map/compass, cell phone, Go-pro head cam, carabiners, toilet paper and blue bags, cribbage boards, helmets, ropes

The modern backcountry skier = effete and heavy!
SAFETY POLICE MENTALITY

I've been thinking about an M224 Mortar for long range slope stability assessments. Better safe than sorry!

- "The modern backcountry skier = effete and heavy!"

Exactly!

It might take 'em awhile, but when they hear my whistle and come to help, they'll have everything I need!  I've heard a few of them even carry morphine.    (No stoned emoticon  :-[)

I bet you Herman Buhl never carried hand-sanitizer or iodine tablets!!!
Hand-sanitizer, iodine tablets......you guys are becoming regular Howard Hughes!!
The whole filter your water thing was a massive scam perpetrated by the filter manufactures to get you punters to buy their stuff. Sure some people have contracted Giardia but if you use ANY sense at all.... really..think about it......making water from snow in winter poses 99.99999999999% security...( Head shaking emoticon if there was one!)


With every post the list grows longer,
PLD's, whistles, stretchers, Gps and map/compass, cell phone, Go-pro head cam, carabiners, toilet paper and blue bags, cribbage boards, helmets, ropes

The modern backcountry skier = effete and heavy!
SAFETY POLICE MENTALITY

4 packs of Marlboros! Not that I disagree!

My wife and I carry a two person bothy sack (terranova superlite 2) in place of a space blanket and as potential sled making material.

For those who haven't seen a bothy before it is essentially a bag shaped tarp (wider and squatter then a bivy) designed so you can sit up in it facing each other. It packs into its own tunnel vent into a package smaller then a grapefruit. In combination with a good synthetic poofy it is surprisingly effective and I'd much rather spend an unplanned night out in it then in a bivy or space blanket...we even break it out at lunch stops when it is particularly nasty.

I hear they are popular in scotland and I am surprised to see more people in the North Wet don't use them.

I hear they are popular in scotland and I am surprised to see more people in the North Wet don't use them.

If benighted in Scotland, we merely grab the nearest sheep, disembowel it( Like Luke Skywalker when caught out on the Ice Planet Hoth while riding his Tauntaun) crawl inside and weather the storm.

A more humane version can be seen here.
www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/bb2e/