We are lucky to have many of the items we need for our trip because of trips we have done in the past. We do however need to replace some items and get a couple more.
I have been very excited to find a company that sells overpants with a full fly zip - a zip that will let me go to the toilet without having to pull my pants down. I've learn't from experience that this helps enormously with keeping warm and maintaining dignity while toileting in -30degrees C. It also means that I can go to the toilet while wearing my climbing harness and don't have to worry about unclipping from a rope if we happen to be roped up for glacier travel (the harness is what the rope is clipped into so to take it off to go to the toilet means that I would no longer be roped in.)
There have been some companies that make clothing with this design in the past but currently they are not - so I was very happy to find Marmot had one.
I bought these overpants on line, making a guess about the size and crossing my fingers that they will fit. I've had them sent to my sister Erica, who lives in San Francisco. Erica and her kids tested out the size for me - bit hard to tell from the pictures but it looked like they had fun. I"m sure they'll be big enough!
I've also had a set of tent poles sent to Erica - we need extra poles to help the tent in the case of big snow falls. We will pick these up on our way as we visit Erica and her family before heading south.
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