Journal Entry
My Check List is Complete
- First aid kit (hope I never need to use it).
- Bug hat (decided to leave it behind... hope I wont' need it).
Hope I DON'T NEED.
- Bug repellent.
- Bear repellent (REALLY hope I won't need it).
- Day pack.
Boots for moving through the tundra.
- Rubber Boots for squishing through the tundra.
- Carhartts (tough work pants every girl needs - I feel like a real Alaskan now!).
- Enough Socks and Underwear to get me through at least two weeks of field work without a laundry!
- Good rain gear.
- Lots of layers – wool long underwear, fleece and a NEW PINK Patagonia down jacket (THANKS Mom).
Hope it keeps me warm.
- COWBOY HAT!
- Wool hat and gloves.
- Eye mask for sleeping through the midnight sun.
- Ear plugs for sleeping through the 40 mush dogs that live next to our cabin.
- Water proof hiking boots.
- Field guide to Denali wildflowers.
- Binoculars and bird book.
- Camera.
- Field note book.
- Science Equipment (CO2, soil moisture, temp, and conductivity probes, Brock Microscope).
Brock microscope for finding critters.
- Lots of books on Alaska.
- BIG WHITE TACOMA TRUCK with a Slide-On Four Wheel Camper jammed to the hilt for 30 days of camping and hiking our way to Alaska.
Me and my Tacoma.
- Bearded husband to drive me north.
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