F*@# Cold Water

Well, that actually wasn't that bad. Only because there was the broken remnants of a washed out bridge plus a tiny tree, so I barely got my feet wet, but holy cow that water was cold. My feet were in pain so I put on two layers of dry wool socks then put my feet in baggies (stuff sacks, actually) before putting on my shoes. What am I going to do in Alaska, where this will happen every twelve minutes? I have tried both neoprene socks and "waterproof" Seal Skinz socks before without much success. I was never convinced the SS were actually waterproof, as I could dump buckets of water out of them. Feet sweat a lot, but that much? Of court both of those are packed in storage so I'll have to order new ones. (And my sleeping bag, and trekking poles since a rat ate half the cork grip to one of my poles one night. And a PFD; still need a PFD to go with the raft.)

Also, does any hiker friend have a SPOT (gen3+), InReach, PLB, or satphone they're not using for August to mid September? I have a friend's SPOT gen 2 with me right now, but this thing is *definitely* not working anymore. It transmitted fine the first week or two, but quit. It's not the batteries, I changed them and still nothing.

Ok well I'm off to the Seskatchewan Crossing (on a bridge, I assume) there will certainly be some nasty schwacking and maybe Ford's between here and there.

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