Thinking your tour through in its entirety as best you can helps to formulate a realistic & achievable experience. Due consideration will identify weaknesses which can be averted allowing you to maximise your day & increase your safety margin. Contingency plans are a must allowing you to have a Plan B if required & cater for unexpected accidents, illness or mechanical failure.
Many considerations are interconnected & will adversely affect one another so a mishap in one area could become a compounding problem.
The following points are not a gear list but some of the considerations when planning for a backcountry mission
It is very important that aspiring backcountry enthusiasts undertake tours that suit their skill level, journeying not far from the trailhead & making a point of debriefing their experience & processing the results. As skills, knowledge & experience develop their safety margin is increased allowing them to undertake more complex tours.
Hurry slowly alpinists... How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!
By Mont Ambassador and backcountry guide Doug Chatten of Snowy Mountains Backcountry
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This trip into the Budawang National Park began as a mission to photograph new product releases, but beneath the brief sat a much more personal objective.
Probably the most important thing to pack though is a good amount of respect for the environment, commonsense and experience
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