So this weekend I went and bought most of what else remained from the list of things that I needed.
I have started to assemble things accordingly too. 13 days to go now – is that too early to start getting ready? I don’t think so!
I'm gonna need a bigger rucksack....
So here assembled you will find a host of stuff that will come with me, and this is all before I start to put together clothes, sleeping bags, boots and the like. Everything here as far as I am concerned is essential.
There is, from top left across:
- Towel
- Energy sachets
- Friendship bracelet made my my daughter:)
- Sunglasses holder
- Factor 50 suncream
- Innoculations cerification, incl. Yellow fever
- Thermal undertrousers
- Microfleece towel
- First aid kit
- Jogging pants for camp
- Walking trousers
- Blister pads
- Sticking plasters
- Malarone tablets x 19
- ‘Timex Explorer’ watch
- Digital Camera
- Plastic bags/Ziplocs for wet stuff
- Immodium
- Vaseline
- Savlon
- Walking socks
- Bloc sunglasses
- Energiser headtorch
- Diarrhoea medicine
- Aftersun cream
- ‘Deet’ mozzie spray
- Afterbite stick
- Tea Tree oil
- 3 Litre camelback with insulated sleeve fitted
- Waterpurifying tablets x 64
- Thermal top
- Sleeping bag liner
- Spork (!)
- Tea Tree oil
- Hydrocortisone
- Swiss Army Knife
- Spare shoe laces
- Water bottle
- Wet wipes
- Woolly hat
- Balaclava
- Strap for large rucksack
- Travel pillow
- Shoes/trainers for camp
- Thermal vests
- ‘Summit socks’:)
- Soft shell (or an imitation thereof)
- Floppy hat
I hate to think how much this lot cost me. Or actually I don’t. It doesn’t matter really. It is all necessary, or not. How much I use is by the by – if I didn’t take just one of these things then I would probably find that I had a need for it. I will be away in Africa for 10 days after all, and have to carry (between me and the porters anyway) everything that I need for 72 miles – if it is not with me then I will not be able to use it. Which reminds me – better go and buy some toilet roll……
To Kilimanjaro (and beyond?) 