Thread: Gear for 2 weeks in Kawekas

I have done the 14 days in the bush a wee while back. my main meals were museli for breakfast, couple of museli bars while on the move and pasta, and what ever else I could find, for dinner. I carried dehy bacon bits and packets of cheese sauce to add some flavour to the pasta. This trip was in the Urewera going from hut to hut so I didnt need a lot of gear, one billy, gas cooker and a telescopic spinning road. Plenty of trout to add to the pasta.

Most cooking was done on an open fire and the cooker was for a quick brew in between huts. I did have a food dump that I picked up half way through the stroll. Best part was that it had three cans of beer in it plus some of the small cans of tuna and a new roll of dunnie paper Got to have it.

Clothing was couple of tee shirts, one bush shirt and the proverbial bush singlet, oh, and a couple set of undies. I washed them out every couple of days, got to smell nice. Pack might have hit 20 kgs if it was lucky.

You will have different priorities food and clothing wise than I had as you are being dropped of by a machine. As some have said, if you are moving on from a hut to another place then make a food dump of what you dont need, bury it, hang it in a tree or do what I did for my food dump, 20 or 30 litre platic bucket with a good lid.

I saw a shit load of deer on my stroll so go for and enjoy it.

Extra bit, I didnt have a PLB or GPS on the walk as there were no PLB,s around then and a GPS was about a zillion dollars to buy but I did run into a bloke I knew who was picking some hunters in the northern part of Urewera and he passed on a message to my other half