One Night Mountaineering Trip Packing List
Mountaineering is something (relatively) new to me and so for this trip to El Chaltén in Argentinian Patagonia Mike and I hired a local guide to take us up one of the more beginner friendly mountaineering trips. For my full trip report of this trip including our climb up Mojón Rojo click the link below. But in case you are wondering what the packing for this trip looks like - keep scrolling!
As a note, although we anticipated sleeping in a little cave half way up the mountain, our guide did pack a tent as a backup that I will include in the list below as well as our rope. Mike and I brought the remainder of the gear ourselves from Canada.
Even with a little bit of experience under our belt and our Mountaineering Course - Mike and I are unfamiliar with the glaciers and climbs in Patagonia and opt’ed to hire a guide. We ended up having a great time - learning a lot about the area, brushed up on our skills and learned at least a thing or two. When moving into more technical terrain I would always recommend hiring a guide.
One of the things that our guide made note of is that El Chatén does not have any helicopters, so an accident on the mountain would require around 30 people (from a town of under 800) to all physically hike in, carrying all gear and manually evacuate anyone injured.
snacks and hydration
We knew there would be water everywhere so we did not need to pack a lot in. And for the snacks, we left around 9am on day one (after breakfast) and returned to camp at 6pm on day two
(before dinner) so we had three meals + snacks.
Stove + Fuel + Lighter
Dehydrated Meal
Snacks:
2 Empanadas
2 Sandwiches
Trail mix
4 Alfajore
Protein bars
Candy Bars
technical gear
Crampons
Climbing Helmet
Ice Axe
Petzl Pick and Spike Protector Caps
Harness
Belay Device
Carabiners
2 x BD Magnetron
6 x Black Diamond LiteWire Carabiner
Slings
2 x Mammut Contact Sling, 120cm, Blue
Rope
Accessory Cord
Ice Screw
Petzl Laser Speed Light Ice Screw 17cm
HollowBlock
Sterling 6.8mm HollowBlock2 Loop - 13.5"
Mountaineering Boots
I linked my personal boots above but here is some more information on Sizing Mountaineering Boots - different brands have different fits. I'd recommend looking into the following.
La Sportiva Nepal Cube GTX (a warmer, heavier option)
La Sportiva Trango Tower GTX (3-season boot)
La Sportiva Trango Cube GTX (Recommended 3-season boot if La Sportiva is best fit)
SCARPA Ribelle HD (good 3-season boot from Scarpa)
Mammut Tais Tour GTX (good 3-season boot from Mammut)
Salewa Raven 3 GTX (good 3-season boot from Salewa)
camera and tech
Fujifilm X100V APS-C Digital Rangefinder Camera +spare batterites
Peak Design Capture Camera Clip
Garmin fenix 7S Sapphire Solar Multisport GPS Watch
iPhone 14 Pro (all of my videos for stories and reels are recorded on this)
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