Gear
A major concern about club activities is the kind of equipment one needs in order to participate in various club activities. Such gear is usually frightfully expensive (such as kayaks and rockclimbing items) and rarely will a beginner have the necessary equipment.
The Club's gear stores can hire you almost anything you might need for any of our sports. As you go on more and more trips you'll become more experienced and can start thinking about accumulating your own equipment.
Hiring stuff from the Club
If you don't already own gear, don't worry—you can borrow stuff from the club. MUMC offers extraordinarily cheap rates on borrowed items: prices may vary a little depending on the bigness of the item being borrowed.
Most of our gear stores have their own web pages with more specific information about what is available.
Gear Stores
- General/Bushwalking
- Canyoning
- Caving
- Climbing
- Mountaineering
- Boatsheds (Paddling)
- XC Skiing
Buying your own stuff
If you intend to purchase your own kit we strongly recommended that you don't go all-out and buy everything at once, especially if you're new to a sport. Gear acquisition is an expensive "hobby" and is best undertaken with time and experience and a few words of advice from fellow club members.
The first item you purchase is often a pair of hiking boots, followed by a large pack, capable of eating a weekend's worth of equipment.
Gear Stores
Typical Gear
- Base Layer
The layers you wear next to your body.
- Warm Wear
Really warm stuff to keep you...well, warm. This usually goes on top of the Base Layer, but beneath the Shell.
- Shellwear
The outer layers will protect you from the duo of death: wind and rain.
- Campground Arsenal
The stuff you'll need for overnight camping. On occasion you might draw from this list for a shorter trip, but your leader will specify.
- Miscellaneous
Extra items that you might want to take, that don't fit into the above categories.
Specific Gear
- Winter Kit
For when you go skiing or snow-camping.
- Rockclimbing
All the cool shiny stuff that you take climbing. Some of this is also used in Mountaineering.
Related Links
Bogong EquipmentA reliable and reputable vendor of outdoors equipment. They supply a variety of brands and stock equipment for bushwalkers, skiiers, climbers and mountaineers.
Mountain DesignsMountain Designs stocks their own label of equipment. A specialised outdoors vendor, they have a range of equipment suitable for bushwalkers, skiiers, climbers and mountaineers.
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