{"id":54,"date":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/2026\/07\/10\/ask-the-guide-what-we-carry\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:39:06","slug":"ask-the-guide-what-we-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/2026\/07\/10\/ask-the-guide-what-we-carry\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask the guide: what we carry and what we leave behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We asked all eleven guides the same two questions in June: what is always in your pack, and what did you stop carrying. The answers were shorter than we expected and agreed with each other more than we expected.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title title--md\">Always<\/h2>\n<p>A paper map of the whole area, not the route. Two head torches. A litre of water even on a day with rivers. Tape. Every guide said tape, and none of them agreed on what kind.<\/p>\n<p>Six of eleven also carry a small thermos, which is not a safety item and which they defended more vigorously than anything that is.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title title--md\">Stopped<\/h2>\n<p>Spare boots at the trailhead. A second stove. Anything solar. Two guides have stopped carrying a satellite messenger on the Romsdalen routes because coverage is now good enough that the weight was insurance against a case they could not name.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title title--md\">The disagreement<\/h2>\n<p>Knives. Four carry a folding knife, five carry nothing, and two carry something closer to a tool than a knife. Nobody could give a reason that convinced anybody else, which felt like the most honest answer of the survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven guides, one question. The answers were shorter than we expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"delta":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.deltatheme.com\/nordra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}