Thread: Gear for 2 weeks in Kawekas

Rem, you are going on a great adventure and I wish you well. As you are flying in you will be able to take plenty of standby food to stash. With the amount of time you will be in there for, I would recommend taking plenty of plastic bags so you can bone out any meat shot and store it in the creek bed. Toilet paper is great to have, but you will learn to live without it. Rice, take heaps, and salt...that with venison you can live on. You will get to know your area well and be able to pick and choose your animals and will be able to trade meat for goodies with newbies that share the hut.

Thanks Spook I am really looking forward to it and just can't wait to go. I will no doubt have plenty of time to record my experiences and share them with everyone when I get back. I am dreaming of shooting my first stag!

Originally Posted by Remington700.270

I am dreaming of shooting my first stag!

They will not have much in the way of headgear this time of year

Take at least three knives...one for working on animals, a second in case you lose it and a third for carving your name in the hut timber on those days it is too wet to go out. Take a machete, quality socks, a pair of crocs [your feet will bless you], take a stone for sharpening those knives [another rainy day job] ...forget all the fancy rain gear, buy a swandri and stay in the hut on really wet days...take a deck of cards, if you are any good at it, make a fortune out of hut mates, again on rainy days...yeah, yeah I know I go on about the rainy days, but fuck you are going to the Kaweka's and shit happens.
Have you made up your mind which hut you are going to?

take a compass. +1 for swandri bush shirt, Powder for your feet, med tape, electrical tape, gastrolyte this time of year, water sterilization tablets, survival blanket.
and 2 maps of the area, leave one in a dry bag.