GEAR & FOOD SUGGESTIONS

For those new or potential members who haven't done any day walking before, or for potential members who haven't walked with our Club before, here's a list of what most of our members take on a day walk. Overnight walking can be heaps of fun, but putting together the gear and equipment for these trips can sometimes be daunting. Some of our more experienced overnight walkers have compiled a list of "must have" and optional equipment to get you started on your first overnight walk! For those overnight walkers who like to dehydrate their own food (cuts down on weight), here are some favourite menus put together by some of our members. Our liloing trips can be as short as one day (or a half day sometimes) to multi day trips on rivers such as the Colo and Wollangambe. Liloing involves walking down to a river (a bushwalk) with a lilo (airmatress) and maybe a wetsuit in your pack, then blowing up the lilo and floating, paddling (with your hands) down a river, with the occasional rapid thrown in for excitement. Our more experienced liloers have put together a list of minimum equipment for a liloing trip.

Snow on the Bogong High Plains - Easter 2006 Daywalk - Pindar Caves, Wondabyne Escarpment

                                                               SUGGESTIONS FOR BACKPACKING FOODS

If you're a beginner to overnight camping, you'll get loads of information, suggestions and helpful hints from the more experienced walkers when you're sitting around the campfire. Some walkers procrastinate for months before jumping into overnight walking, simply because they can't get their head around what food to take on their first overnight walk … here are some suggestions:

Breakfast: tea bags, dry cereal & powdered milk (if you don't like powdered milk, one small carton of UDL milk will be sufficient for one breakfast and a couple of cups of tea, take a small screw-top bottle to store the milk in once you've opened it).
Lunch: crisp breads/crackers with sliced cheese (Kraft processed cheese in the jams/peanut butter section of the supermarket will last for over a week un-refrigerated!), salami (in the cooler months), peanut butter or vegemite. Fruit if you have the room and you're not worried about weight.
Dinner: Cup of Soup, instant noodles, instant rice dishes (Rices of the World), hot chocolate.
Snacks (or Scrog as it's sometimes called): The choices are endless, nuts, dried fruit, bars, chocolates etc.

On most walks there will be someone (or maybe 2 or 3 people) who will take along things to share (such as cheese or dip and crackers or packs of Tim Tams, blocks of chocolate and sometimes Port!). Once you become comfortable with carrying a heavy pack, you might like to see if you can come up with something "out of the ordinary" to share .

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