Packing list for a multi-day ski tour
On your person
- Ski and snowshoe equipment
- Functional ski touring pants
- Functional shirt
- Functional jacket or vest
- Hat
- Light gloves
- Avalanche transceiver, batteries must be checked before the tour!
- Backpack
Essential
- probe
- shovel
- crampons
- long change shirt
- long underpants
- Ski socks to change into
- Water and windproof jacket
- Waterproof and windproof trousers (overtrousers)
- Thick gloves (change of gloves)
- Hat or headband
- Cap or buff
- SPF 50 sun cream with lip balm
- Sunglasses / glacier goggles, preferably self-tinting
- Drinking bag or bladder
- Thermos flask
- Minimum 1 liter of liquid (depending on the tour)
- Electrolyte/magnesium tablets (tubes)
- Nuts, dried fruit, bars as required
- First aid kit M
- bladder pflaster
- Headache tablets
- ID, cash, EC card, plastic bag
- Hut sleeping bag
- Wash bag (travel shower gel, toothbrush/paste, small functional towel, handkerchiefs, earplugs)
- headlamp
- cell phone with emergency numbers
Recommended
- ski goggles
- multitool
- Repair kit (screwdriver, cable ties, tape etc.)
- pack sack
- lunch box
Without mountain guide
- Snowcard
- maps
- tour guide
- altimeter
- compass
- GPS
- bivouac sack
- expert tip
- seat cream
Optional
- snack
- Sweater / fleece
- wax (ski tour)
- gaiters (snowshoe tour)
- photo and /bag
- spare batteries
Additional equipment for glacier crossings without a mountain guide
- Rope: depending on tour 35 / 50 meters
- Climbing harness
- Lockable carabiners, 2 pieces
- Prusik slings: 4m x Ø 6mm, of which 2 pieces
- webbing sling
- 2 ice screws
- ice axe
- Crampons
- Depending on the tour: wedges + friends
