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Proper equipment for the tours ⛰️ is a question that is very difficult to answer! It depends on the season ☔ and weather ☀️, as well as the type and duration of the tour. The basic rule is: as less as possible, as much as necessary!
Here are some general tips that should be followed for any tour:
- Always drink plenty before the start of the tour, so you should be fine with 1-1.5 liters ? during the hike before refilling everything again.
- Always have a bag of trail mix or an energy bar with you as refreshment in between. Here is a link to the very tasty bars that we always make ourselves.
- Before the tour always check the weather forecast ☔, then you can also leave the thick sweater in the car or in the hut. However, you should always have an emergency bivouac ⚠️ with you.
- On short day hikes, a change of shirt is not absolutely necessary. T-shirts made of merino wool will keep you warm, even if you've been sweating. When it comes to clothing, you should pay attention to the right material, then you do not have to change clothes so often. Therefore, the team of SimplyTourIt recommends to look at the material merino wool as the first layer of your clothing. Here is the link to the info about merino wool.
Further down you will find respective packing lists ? to the tours
Hiking tours without overnight stay and extreme weather - packing list
- Backpack with rain protection up to 20 liters
- Touring pants (zip-off pants are highly recommended)
- T-shirt, a cotton-free functional shirt is highly recommended.
- Hoodie
- Rain jacket
- Mountain boots or hiking boots, the right shoes are essential
- Socks
- Water bottle (min. 1 L of water according to your needs)
- Food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or bars)
- Cell phone and camera
- Emergency clothing or an emergency bivouac
- Mini first aid kit with band-aids and disinfectants
- Tissues / toilet paper (make sure it is 100% biodegradable)
Don't overdo it. Just enjoy it
Hiking tours for late spring, summer or early autumn - packing list
General
- A good packed backpack should not weigh more than 10 kilos.
Clothing
- Mountain boots or hiking boots, the right shoes are essential
- Functional underwear
- Functional socks
- T-shirt
- Touring pants (long and short or zip-off pants)
- Fleece sweater
- Rain pants
- Rain jacket
- Light gloves
- Cap / headband / hat
Equipment
- Backpack with rain protection
- Day trips up to 20 liters
- With overnight stays up to 40 liters
- Telescope sticks is not a must but, with the descent particularly pleasantly
- Sun protection cream
- Sunglasses
- Food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
- Drinking bottle (min. 1 L of water as needed)
- Cash, EC card
- AC-card (with the alpine club card you enjoy some advantages, especially in the huts)
- Tissues / toilet paper (make sure it is 100% biodegradable)
Optional equipment that at least one of the group should have
- Area guide
- Area map
- Compass
- Altimeter
- Small multitool knife
- GPS device or smartphone with app for the "offline maps", so that the map can be used without the internet
For overnight stays additionally
- Hut sleeping bag
- Hut shoes
- Headlamp
- Washing kit
- If necessary additional clothes
- If necessary further food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
For emergencies
- Telephone with emergency numbers
- First aid kit
- Emergency blanket
- Painkillers
- Bivy sack
- Whistle for alpine emergency signal: often integrated in backpacks in the chest strap
Via ferrata packing list
General
- A good packed backpack should not weigh more than 15 kilos.
Clothing
- Mountain boots or hiking boots, the right shoes are essential
- Functional underwear
- Functional socks
- T-shirt
- Touring pants (long and short or zip-off pants)
- Fleece sweater
- Rain pants
- Rain jacket
- Via ferrata gloves
- Tip: normal construction site gloves e.g. "Gebol Glove Multi Flex" are also super
- Suitable for via ferrata
- Light gloves
- Warm gloves
- Cap / headband / hat
Equipment
- Backpack with rain protection
- Day trips up to 20 liters
- With overnight stays up to 40 liters
- Hip belt
- Via ferrata set
- Helmet
- Stand sling or tape sling (with min. length of 60cm)
- Screw carabiner
- Sunscreen cream
- Sunglasses
- Food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
- Drinking bottle (min. 1 L of water as needed)
- Cash, EC card
- AC-card (with the alpine club card you enjoy some advantages, especially in the huts)
- Tissues / toilet paper (make sure it is 100% biodegradable)
- Tour description & map
Additional equipment for via ferrata the with children or particularly difficult routes
- Short rope (min. 20m)
- Belay device (Tuber is highly recommended)
- 2-3 webbing slings (with min. length of 60cm)
- 2 HMS screwgate carabiners
- Climbing shoes for particularly difficult routes
Optional equipment that at least one of the group should have
- Area guide
- Area map
- Compass
- Altimeter
- Small multitool knife
- GPS device or smartphone with app for the "offline maps", so that the map can be used without the internet
- For overnight stays additionally
- Hut sleeping bag
- Hut shoes
- Headlamp
- Washing kit
- If necessary additional clothes
- If necessary further food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
For emergencies
- Telephone with emergency numbers
- First aid kit
- Emergency blanket
- Painkillers
- Bivy sack
- Whistle for alpine emergency signal: often integrated in backpacks in the chest strap
Alpine climbing packing list
General
- A well packed backpack should not weigh more than 15 kilos.
- Which rope and which additional equipment are necessary are usually indicated in the route description.
- As an example, for a 50m rope length, depending on your safety needs, you will need about 8-10 expresses and a corresponding number of webbing slings and mobile clamping wedges/devices.
- It is advisable to run through all the moves in your head before each tour and to check whether you have the appropriate equipment with you.
- It is also advisable to consider the retreat and behavior in case of accidents!
Clothing
- Approach shoes
- Functional underwear
- Functional socks
- T-shirt
- Touring pants (long and short or zip-off pants)
- fleece sweater
- Rain pants
- Rain jacket
- Light gloves
- Warm gloves
- Cap / headband / hat
Equipment
- Backpack with rain protection
- Day trips up to 20 liters
- With overnight stays up to 40 liters
- Hip belt
- Climbing shoes
- Climbing gloves
- Helmet
- Rope(s)
- Type and length according to route description
- Belay device (e.g. ATC-Guide)
- Expresses
- Number depending on route description
- Prusik / Cord min. 5mm
- Number and length depending on route description
- good lengths are 25 cm or/and 90 cm
- Ribbon sling
- 1x min. 60cm
- 1x min. 1,2m
- Additionally note route description
- 3x Safelock / HMS screwgate carabiner
- Further carabiners
- Number depending on route description and belay method
- Tests whether all the material is correctly attached to the hip belt
- Wedge clamps
- Number depending on route description
- Clamping devices & Friends
- Number depending on route description
- Sunscreen cream
- Sunglasses
- Food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
- Drinking bottle (min. 1 L water as needed)
- Cash, EC card
- AC-card (with the alpine club card you enjoy some advantages, especially in the huts)
- Tissues / toilet paper (make sure it is 100% biodegradable)
Optional equipment that at least one of the group should have
- Area guide
- Area map
- Compass
- Altimeter
- Small multitool knife
- GPS device or smartphone with app for the "offline maps", so that the map can be used without the internet
For overnight stays additionally
- Hut sleeping bag
- Hut shoes
- Headlamp
- Washing kit
- If necessary additional change of clothes
- If necessary further food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
For emergencies
- Telephone with emergency numbers
- First aid kit
- Emergency blanket
- Painkillers
- Bivy sack
- Whistle for alpine emergency signal: often integrated in backpacks in the chest strap
Mountaineering Packing List
General
- A good packed backpack should not weigh more than 20 kilos.
Clothing
- Crampon proof mountain boots, the right shoes are essential
- Functional underwear
- Functional socks
- Warm socks e.g. ski socks
- T-shirt
- Touring pants
- Light warm jacket Down jacket
- Fleece sweater
- Rain pants
- Rain jacket
- Light gloves
- Warm gloves
- Cap / headband / hat
Equipment
- Backpack with rain protection
- Day trips up to 20 liters
- With overnight stays up to 40 liters
- Telescopic poles is not a must but, when descending especially comfortable
- Hip belt
- Helmet
- Rope(s)
- Type and length according to route description
- Belay device (e.g. ATC-Guide)
- Prusik / Cord min. 5mm
- 1x min. 90 cm
- 1x min. 4.2 m
- additionally follow route description
- Ribbon sling
- 1x min. 60cm
- 1x min. 1.2m
- additionally note route description
- min. 3x Safelock / HMS screwgate carabiners
- min. 2x normal carabiners
- Tests if all the material sits correctly on the waist belt
- Rope clamp - if you have problems with knots
- Tibloc or similar
- MiniTraxion or similar
- min. 1x ice screw
- additionally follow the route description
- Ice axe
- Crampons
- Sunscreen cream
- Sunglasses - category 4
- Food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
- Drinking bottle (min. 1 L of water as needed)
- cash, EC card
AC-card (with the alpine club card you enjoy some advantages, especially in the huts) - Tissues / toilet paper (make sure it is 100% biodegradable)
If there are climbing passages, you will need additionally
- Wedge clamps
- Number depending on the route description
- Clamping devices & Friends
- Quantity depending on route description
- Expresses
- Number depending on route description
- additional ribbon slings
- Quantity according to route description
- more carabiners
- Number depending on the route description
Optional equipment that at least one of the group should have
- Area guide
- Area map
- Compass
- Altimeter
- Small multitool knife
- GPS device or smartphone with app for the "offline maps", so that the map can be used without the internet
For overnight stays additionally
- Hut sleeping bag
- Hut shoes
- Headlamp
- Washing kit
- if necessary additional change of clothes
- if necessary additional food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
For emergencies
- Telephone with emergency numbers
- First aid kit
- Emergency blanket
- Painkillers
- Bivy sack
- Whistle for alpine emergency signal: often integrated in backpacks in the chest strap
Ski touring packing list
Algemein
- A good packed backpack should not weigh more than 20 kilos.
Clothing
- Functional underwear
- Functional socks
- Warm socks e.g. ski socks
- T-shirt
- Touring pants
- Light warm jacket Down jacket
- Fleece sweater
- Rain pants
- Rain jacket
- Light gloves
- Warm gloves
- Cap / headband / hat
Ski equipment
- Helmet Ski
- Touring ski
- Ski touring skins
- Crampons
- Ski poles (ideally adjustable in length)
- Ski touring boots
- Avalanche beacon (with full batteries)
- Avalanche shovel
- Avalanche probe
Equipment
- Backpack with rain protection
- Day trips up to 20 liters
- With overnight stays up to 40 liters
- Sunscreen cream
- Sunglasses - category 4
- Food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
- Drinking bottle (min. 1 L of water as needed)
- Cash, EC card
- AC-card (with the alpine club card you enjoy some advantages, especially in the huts)
- Tissues / toilet paper (make sure it is 100% biodegradable)
For high altitude ski touring additionally
- Hip belt
- Rope(s)
- Type and length according to route description
- Belay device (e.g. ATC-Guide)
- Prusik / Cord min. 5mm
- 1x min. 90 cm
- 1x min. 4.2 m
- additionally follow route description
- Ribbon sling
- 1x min. 60cm
- 1x min. 1.2m
- additionally note route description
- min. 3x Safelock / HMS screwgate carabiners
- min. 2x normal carabiners
- Tests if all the material sits correctly on the waist belt
- Rope clamp - if you have problems with knots
- Tibloc or similar
- MiniTraxion or similar
- min. 1x ice screw
- additionally follow the route description
- Ice axe
- Crampons
If there are climbing passages, you also need
- Wedge clamps
- Number depending on route description
- Clamping devices & Friends
- Number depending on route description
- Expresses
- Number depending on route description
- Additional ribbon sling
- Quantity according to route description
- More carabiners
- Number depending on the route description
Optional equipment that at least one of the group should have
- Area guide
- Area map
- Compass
- Altimeter
- Small multitool knife
- GPS device or smartphone with app for the "offline maps", so that the map can be used without the internet
For overnight stays additionally
- Hut sleeping bag
- Hut shoes
- Headlamp
- Washing kit
- if necessary additional change of clothes
- if necessary additional food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
For emergencies
- Telephone with emergency numbers
- First aid kit
- Emergency blanket
- Painkillers
- Bivy sack
- Whistle for alpine emergency signal: often integrated in backpacks in the chest strap
Ice / Mixed climbing
General
- A well packed backpack should not weigh more than 15 kilos.
- Which rope and additional equipment are necessary are usually indicated in the route description.
- It is advisable to run through all the steps in your head before each tour and check whether you have the appropriate equipment with you.
- It is also advisable to consider the retreat and behaviour in case of accidents!
Clothing
- Crampon proof mountain boots, the right shoes are essential
- Functional underwear
- Functional socks
- Warm socks e.g. ski socks
- T-shirt
- Touring pants
- Light warm jacket Down jacket
- Fleece sweater
- Rain pants
- Rain jacket
- Light gloves
- Warm gloves
- Cap / headband / hat
Equipment
- Backpack with rain protection
- Day trips up to 20 liters
- With overnight stays up to 40 liters
- Hip belt
- Helmet
- Rope(s)
- Type and length according to route description
- Belay device (e.g. ATC-Guide)
- Expresses
- Number depending on route description
- Prusik / Cord min. 5mm
- 1x min. 90 cm
- 1x min. 4.2 m
- additionally follow route description
- Ribbon sling
- 1x min. 60cm
- 1x min. 1.2m
- additionally note route description
- min. 3x Safelock / HMS screwgate carabiners
- min. 2x normal carabiners
- Number depending on route description and belay method
- Tests if all the material is properly attached to the waist belt
- Wedge clamps
- Quantity depending on route description
- Clamping devices & Friends
- Number depending on route description
- Ice screws
- Quantity according to route description
- Ice tools
- Crampons
- Sunscreen cream
- Sunglasses
- Food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
- Drinking bottle (min. 1 L of water as needed)
- Cash, EC card
- Ac-card (with the Alpine club card you enjoy some advantages, especially in the huts)
- Tissues / toilet paper (make sure it is 100% biodegradable)
Optional equipment that at least one of the group should have
- Area guide
- Area map
- Compass
- Altimeter
- Small multitool knife
- GPS device or smartphone with app for the "offline maps", so that the map can be used without the internet
For overnight stays additionally
- Hut sleeping bag
- Hut shoes
- Headlamp
- Washing kit
- if necessary additional change of clothes
- if necessary additional food (pack of cookies, bag of trail mix or energy bar)
For emergencies
- Telephone with emergency numbers
- First aid kit
- Emergency blanket
- Painkillers
- Bivy sack
- Whistle for alpine emergency signal: often integrated in backpacks in the chest strap
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