Stuff You Need to Bring
From Duck Pond
Here is a short list of things that you absolutely must bring. For everything else please refer to the official Duck Pond Survival Guide
The Crucial
- Drinking water! 1.5 gallons per person per day.
- Tent / 1 foot Rebar & Caps or Long Tent Stakes
- Sleeping bag - Thermarest/padding or Inflatable Mattress
- Food for the rest of your meals (only one meal a day is cooked by you and the other ducks)
- Headlamp
- Money for Ice
- Cooler for your personal food
- Goggles, dust mask, water bottle. NEVER LEAVE CAMP WITHOUT THESE
- Bowl/Cup if you don't like biodegradable disposal ones..
- A chair for seating at the table. Table height is 30 inches.
- Eating utensils! Fork-knife-spoon, plate, bowl, cup, and whatever else you need to get sustenance into your mouth.
- Sunscreen/Lip Balm
- Trash bags
- Sharpie to mark your stuff
- Warm fun gear for night
- Lighting to make You and your Bike visible at Night
Duck Pond Requests
- Fill your gas tank in Gerlach (last stop before Black Rock City). We will be sharing gas to run all of our electricity.
- At least one bottle of alcohol for the bar
- At least one large non-refrigerated mixer, like pineapple, ruby red, orange etc
- 2.5 gallons of water per person/per day for drinking and showering
The Recommended
- Work gloves
- Sunglasses + extra pair
- Earplugs + Eyecover
- Duct tape
- Pen
- 2-3 Nalgene no-leak water/liquid bottles. 1 for water, 1 for alcohol, 1 spare
- Camera, but only if you don't mind it broken/completely dusty (ziplocs protect some)
- Hand sanitizer
- Baby wipes (VERY useful)
- Enough socks + underwear to last the week. There is no laundry machine!
- Sunshower (or, put a 2.5 gallon jug out in the sun for the day, makes it nice and warm)
- Extension cords/power strips
