Use of donation funds...

To those kind souls who have donated to our cause via the paypal donate button, we thank you. Yesterday we ordered 2 bear canisters from BearVault. You put all your food in it, and close it up at night and take it 100 yards from where your tent is, and the bears (if they find it) cannot figure out how to open it, they play with it all night, and then they leave it sitting there in the morning. Bear canisters are required in the Sierras and Yosemite and they weigh 3 extra pounds, like we need that! The good part is that i don't have to hang the food every night. The company, BearVault, has a special PCT hiker rate and ships them for free directly to Kennedy Meadows at the foot of the Sierras.

Also, we have been checking out other people's water filters, and we decided to use some of the donation money to buy ourselves a faster pumping, lighter filter - the Katadyn Hiker Pro. Now we will save time at the water sources and we won't have to argue about who has to pump the water!! My old filter was really slow and hard to pump...

So thank you thank you thank you to all you generous donation givers out there. I hope you don't expect us to make it all the way to Canada, although we'd like to, it may not happen, just trying to get thru the sierras first, then to Oregon, and so on... here are some photos of the items that you bought us, and again, thank you:

BV500 - $70 each

Katadyn Hiker Pro - $87 with Ca tax