Personal Equipment

Some days ago we received the final amount of weight we can carry along on the expedition. Personal being clothes, medication and toiletries: 7kg! Luckily boots not included - their weight is about 2,5kg. We will be wearing them on the plane.
Our personal bag, which is only part of what we will pull in the sled or pulka, will contain: underwear (2 slips and 2 long sleeve shirts of merina wool - luckily the label says "no stink"), 2 pair thermal long pants, 2 thin fleeces (100), 2 thick fleeces (300), fleece pants, GoreTex coat and pants, 2 pair of anti-friction socks, 2 pair of thick socks, thin gloves that dry fast, thick gloves, down mittens, pair of surgery gloves - to be put on bare skin to keep the rest of the hand layers dry - and for our head and face: thin balaclava, thick balaclava, snow mask, neck gaiter, hat, gletsjer glasses and snow glasses. As toiletries the list is quite limited: small toothbrush and paste, small light weight towel, sun cream, multipurpose hydrating creme, lip cream, compeed, anti bacterial creme, analgestic cream, and our personal medication. This all put together in a small waterproof bag. Clothes packed in seperate compression bags to reduce volume.
Rest of the sled will be stuffed with common equipment and other gear that is provided by our expedition leader Dixie. More about that later.