• Depends on how long I'm going for, on a long trip the food takes up the most room - I'm taking my 55l Arcteryx bag on this trip, for 2-3 days I can get away with my smaller 40l Vaude bag.

    I rarely scan my prints so the XA shots are just stuck into my photo albums. Here are a few my partner took on her digital camera though:

    View from Kepler track (4 days, she did this solo because I couldn't get the time off work, but it's a very popular track so not dangerous)

    On the way up to Mueller Hut (overnight trip), with Mt. Cook in the background (that's NZ's highest peak)

    At Mueller Hut (some 1800m up)... it was sunny and freezing at the same time, at least 6 feet of compacted snow on the plateau around the hut, which was soft in the afternoon but overnight turned as hard as concrete. Great view from the deck watching the glacier across the valley slowly tumble off the cliff face. Rather unfashionable.

    The pass between the Ahuriri and Dingle Burn valleys:

    Just in case anyone's interested here's what I had intended to buy for food:
    Breakfasts:
    Oats, milk powder, raisins and walnuts, instant coffee (the sachets with the milk already mixed in)
    Lunch:
    One Square Meal bars (these are amazing, only sold in NZ unfortunately), crackers, peanut butter
    Snacks:
    Beef jerky sticks, waffles, chocolate, scroggin (a.k.a. trail mix), dried fruit
    Dinner (a variety!):
    Pasta with foil-packet tuna, dehy peas, and sauce made from instant tomato soup powder or
    Instant noodles with jerky and dehy peas or
    Couscous with jerky and dehy peas
    Dessert of angel delight stuff (pre-mixed with milk powder), carefully spooned onto a waffle, with a crumbled-up cracker on top. It's not that bad, honest.
    Hot chocolate powder before bedtime (with a square of real chocolate if you're lucky)

    On short/easy overnight trips I take along steak or bacon - wrapped up in a sleeping bag it stays cool.

  • Cheers man, always interesting to see what the LFGSS get up to. Looks like some stunning hiking country.

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