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An essential checklist for Colorado adventurers:
- Common Sense - you're well read and have spent time with other experienced people in the outdoors
- read, read, and read some more on what you're going to do - trail guides, technical guides, gear guides, natural history guides, weather guides, medical guides, maps, newspaper and magazine articles. See my resource area for books to get started.
- Proper clothing and extra clothing
- layers
- extra fleece
- wind and rain shell
- hat
- extra socks
- synthetics only, no cotton
- Food and Water - more than you think you need
- water filter if on longer trip
- First Aid Kit - always carry
- ibuprofen
- moleskin
- bandaids
- antibiotic cream
- insect bite antiseptic
- gauze
- small scissors
- tweezers
- straight pin
- space blanket
- ace bandage
- Map of where you're going, that you've studied and know how to read
- Compass or GPS - know how to use what ever you choose (if GPS, then extra batteries)
- Flashlight/Headlamp
- spare batteries
- Waterproof matches
- Sunglasses/Sunblock
- Pocketknife
- Whistle
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"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
- Samuel Johnson
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