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Equipment

The choice of clothing and equipment for a trek like this can be crucial to your comfort and enjoyment. Weight will be an important factor. Carry too much and the uphills will seem longer and steeper and you will quickly tire, so think carefully and pare your load down to the very minimum. With plenty of versatile, durable lightweight equipment available (if you can afford it), there's no point in using a heavier alternative.

Unless you're camping you can dispense with a conventional sleeping bag, but a sheet sleeping bag (sleeping bag liner) should be used in gîtes and mountain refuges where blankets and pillows are provided. Silk bags are much lighter and pack smaller than the cotton variety. One complete change of clothing should suffice, for you can usually wash and dry clothes overnight, and you ought to be able to keep your rucksack weight down to around 8–10kg. (During my latest walking of the Tour of the Oisans I met Judith Armstrong who, that year, trekked almost 6500km in the Alps carrying a base load of some 5kg.)