Backcountry Skiing – Day Tours
For day tours, I focus on keeping gear (and thus weight) to a minimum, which in turn boosts your skied vertical to the maximum. Backcountry skiing is all about the up — the more you climb, the more you ski. Use day tours as a way experiment with exactly how little you can get by with.
Updated: August 2009
Personal gear list for backcountry skiing day trips.
- Skis & Bindings
- Skins
- Boots
- Poles – Whippet 2x
- Shovel
- Transceiver
- Day Pack
- Sun screen
- Sunglasses
- Headlamp
- Knife
- Water bladder
- First Aid Kit
Clothes
- Socks
- Warm insulated jacket
- Softshell pants
- Shell pants
- Shell jacket
- Long underwear shirts
- Baseball/Sun hat
- Lightweight gloves
- Warm gloves/mitts
- Warm hat
Optional
- Accessory straps
- Goggles
- Helmet
- Camera & film
- Snow saw
- Radios – Talkabouts
- Probe
- Maps, compass & GPS
- Rope – 50′ x 8mm accessory cord
- Guidebook
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