Community Gear List

Back country food/cooking for eight days

(see meals below for grocery list)

• 8 dinners (RAY – 4, ANDY – 3, CHRIS – 1)
• Water filters (RAY – MSR micro) (CHRIS – second filter)
• Chemical/peroxide water system (RAY)
• Water bag 20L this is so we can filter in camp instead of stream side. (RAY)
• Gatorade (RAY – enough powder for 15 or 20 gallons)
• Stoves (RAY) and fuel
• Pots & Pans (RAY – 1x 12″ fry, 2x 2 liter and 1x 4 liter)
• Cutting board
• Cooking cleanup kit – scrubby, bio soap, dish towel
• Lantern (ANDY)
• Garbage bags
• Tents
  (RAY –  solo tent)
  (ANDY & ANDRES in Andy or Ray’s three man tent)
  (CHRIS – Hennessy Hammock)
  (JUSTIN – solo tent)
• Tarp – (RAY – I’m making a 10′ x 18′ rip-stop tarp to put up as a rain shed so we have a dry place to cook)
• Shovel (RAY – small hand trowel) we might want something more significant?
• Toilet paper – what did you think the shovel was for?
• Saw (RAY – small folding saw)
• Rope (skip the rope – a couple of slacklines instead)
• Slackline (RAY –  length?, CHRIS – 65ft)
• Duct Tape (JUSTIN – bring that leopard print roll ;-)
• First Aid Kit (RAY – I have a decent kit we can share but it needs some beefing up with more of the items below to serve five to ten people.)
• Sutures & saline with lidocaine/epi (CHRIS)
• Sterile packing/gauze (CHRIS)
• Ace bandages (CHRIS)
• Athletic tape (CHRIS)
• Moleskin and band aides
• Aloe vera (CHRIS)
• First aid guide (RAY – I have the illustrated guerrilla handbook to doing double bypass open heart surgery using only a pocket knife and some reeds from the marsh to replace the arteries and other helpful back country first aid techniques)
• Antivenin  (JUSTIN)
• Extractor (RAY)
• GPS (JUSTIN & RAY)
• Satellite Phone (CHRIS)
• Topo Maps – (RAY)
• Local cell phone – We’ll be out of cell phone range a lot of the time but we’ll also be in cell phone range a lot of the time.  (JUSTIN yours is probably the best because it’s loaded with useful local contacts ;-)  ANDRES as backup)

Personal Gear List

• Backpack – the porters are slated to carry up to 20 kilos in a pack you provide
• Day pack or fanny pack – porters will carry your big pack.
• Sleeping pad
• Sleeping bag
• Hammock
• Pillow

Daytime food and snacks for seven-ten days (we can shop in Buenos Aires for the last 3 days)

• Breakfast

• Lunch
• Snacks
• Plate, bowl, spoon, knife, fork, chopsticks – whatever you want to eat off of and eat with
• Water bottles, bags – whatever you want to drink from on the trail.  It takes time to get out and use the filter and I’m not sure how frequently we’ll hit good water sources so you’ll want to carry at least a couple liters
• Personal juice boxes – if you want to drink anything other than water or the community Gatorade bring it.

Personal first aid

• First Aid Kit – if you have a personal kit by all means bring it.  The more the merrier.  Especially if you have foot care stuff that you like bring that.
• Medication – if you are taking anything bring it AND let us know what it is so we can tell emergency/hospital if necessary  ALSO – if you are allergic to anything let us know (RAY – allergic to penicillin)
• Vitamins if you use them
• Sunscreen
• Mosquito repellent

Clothes and shoes (not listing them again here look at the previous packing list)

 

Toiletries

• Razor
• Toothbrush with cover, & toothpaste
• Dental Floss
• Soap
• Deodorant stone
• Towel/washcloth
• Mirror (used for emergency signaling too)

Stuff

• Dry bag
• Ziplock baggies (for snacks, cameras, toilet paper, stool samples if you catch something and we have to take it to the doctor…I put everything in ziplocks)
• Waterproof notebook + pencil
• Plant and animal id guides
• Book
• Sunglasses
• Contacts & solutions
• Spare glasses
• Headlamp + spare batteries
• Flashlight + spare batteries
• Pocket knife
• Machete (optional ;-)
• Camera + Memory + Batteries
• Walking pole + camera mount
• Binoculars
• Compass (if you know how to use it)
• Cigarette lighter – (ANDRES or JUSTIN please buy a six pack so everyone can have at least one – we can’t bring them on the plane)
• Nylon line – utility line, clothesline just 50-100 feet of tough string for whatever
• Whistle

Documents

• Passport or cedula
• Driver’s license
• Credit card
• Debit card
• Cash (I’d recommend everyone have $50-$100 even in the back country just in case)
• Itinerary/Contact – all of the contact info for everyone and everyone’s significant others is posted on the webpage along with route, travel plan, passport copies etc.

Meals

Tacos

✔chicken

✔Taco seasoning

✔canned chilies

✔canned salsa

✔fantastic foods taco mix

✔Refried beans

✔cheese

*tortillas

Side dish

✔Tortilla Soup

Indian Food

Spinach

Eggplant

Dahl

✔Rice

Side dish

✔Pad Thai

Pasta

✔Tomatoes

*Basil

✔Vegetables

Artichokes

✔Parmesan

✔Noodles

Side dish

✔Potatoes

Something to mix with them to make them “Tuscan”

Chinese Chicken

✔chicken

✔water chestnuts

cashews

✔crunchy noodles

✔Shitake mushrooms

✔Soy sauce

Side dish

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Deserts

Upside-down Blueberry Cheesecake

✔Mix

✔Dried Blueberries

✔Cream

✔Graham Crackers

Keer

✔Coconut Milk

✔Rice

Spice packet

Sugar

Cookies (2)

✔Packaged Cookies

Chocolate Mud Pie

✔Pudding

✔Dark chocolate chunks

✔Almonds

✔Powdered milk

Snacks & Breakfast

✔instant coffee

✔granola

✔powerbars, granola bars, grain bars, candy bars

Wasabi almonds

✔dried fruit

hard dry cheese

regular old cheddar, swiss etc.

*small ultrapasturized packets of cream cheese

✔salami – take and leave at Hamels

✔jerky – Justin has

crackers

dense bread

pretzels

m&m’s

✔fire jolly ranchers

*oranges & bananas

Pantry

*Oil

Salt

Pepper

Red pepper

Sugar

✔Powdered milk

*things to buy in Costa Rica