As a vegan trekking in Torres Del Paine, I wanted to share our food and gear list. All items are easily available in the chain supermarket called Unimarc. Since the W trek is a completely independent trek, you are responsible for carrying everything in and cooking for yourself.
Food list for W-trek, patagonia:
- Candy
- Trail Mix
- Dried Fruit
- Spicy peanuts
- Oat cereal bars
- Cereal mix oat cookies
- Costa muesli cookies
- Energy bars from Peru - found vegan energy bars in Lima!
- Soya cookies
- Dark chocolate
- Maggi stock cubes - checked ingredient list multiple times
- Soup packets
- Dried noodles
- Rice primavera instant food
- Tea bags
- Hot chocolate - 1 bar
- Hot breakfast drink pack from Cuzco containing local grains - excellent buy!
- Raisins
- Oats
- Jam (sold in blocks)
- Instant juice packets. Mix water to make juice.
Clothes list for one person, male or female
- Quick dry pant, 1
- T-shirt for hiking, 1
- Fleece pant for sleeping, 1
- Synthetic base layer shirt, 1
- Synthetic base layer pant, 1 - available at REI
- Rain pant
- Rain jacket
- Fleece shirt
- One extra t-shirt - optional
- Innerwear - as required
Gear:
- Tent
- Sleeping bag
- Sleeping pad
- Stove
- One pot for cooking. Utensils. Plastic cups for drinking hot/cold.
- Gas canisters
- Matches
Other very helpful items to have:
- Large plastic bag to cover the tent fly as it gets wet in the rain
- Hooks/carabiners outside the pack to strap things
- Camp slippers
- Fingerless gloves
- Minimum toiletries
- Spare camera battery
- Candy is great to carry handy
- Small empty water bottle. The water in TDP is amazingly tasty and refreshes immediately, so no need to carry water.
- No need for plates - can eat from pot directly.
- Many plastic bags for rain proofing
- Hiking poles
- At least one pair of quick dry clothes
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