More Supplies

When REI has a sale, hikers respond!  I needed to spend $100 to earn a "free" $20 gift card.  I accepted the challenge.  The list of what I need for the hike is a lot longer than $100, unfortunately.  This is what I chose, and what was delivered today:

To the left--and being blinded by the light--is ironically my headlight.  The larger package in the middle is a waterproof stuff sack for my sleeping bag.  My bag got here a couple weeks ago.  It's still in the box!  The box, by the way, weighs more than the bag.  I hope there's some additional packaging in this stuff sack package because it's not as light as I'd hoped.  In the orange, a small flint.  The two bottles are soap, Dr Bronner's Magic Soaps, or so the bottles say.  Supposedly they are organic and can be used for body, clothes, dishes, or anything that needs cleaning in the wilderness.  The zip-o-gage, front right, is a small thermometer.  It weighs next to nothing and I like knowing the temperature.  Wish I would have had this on the hike in Washington.  Would have loved to know the night time temps.

Training is ongoing.  Six days a week it's either running, walking an incline at the gym, or lifting weights.  Many days the dogs get walks too.