Still Sans Shower

Showers are for the weak. Seriously.

We're hopefully finishing building the shower tomorrow.  At least now the septic is working again for the cabin, so there's proper running water again, and we have more than just the outhouse. It's pretty exciting. Our tents have woodstoves almost fully hooked up (tomorrow is apparently going to be THE day for all this), so camp is just about ready to go! Setting up the stovepipes in a thunderstorm was fun though. It was pouring rain. Pouring. The office is mostly set up, but not the internet and such yet. The generator got going, and all our radios and GPSs are charged and ready to go.

First night here was great though. I woke up around 2 am, thought it must have been at least 6am because it was still bright in the tent.  No need for flashlights here, well, yet, anyways. I was reading comfortably in the tent until midnight with no headlamp. I love the north in the summer. It's beautiful! My cot is super cozy with a mosquito net over the cot, and my -10 sleeping bag with silk-sleeping-bag-liner and pillow... Can't wait to crawl in there after a day's traverse, because it is SO comfortable. And food: Holy cow is the food delicious. Jan and Dempsey are staying on the ranch, and Jan is cooking for us. She's amazing. We had chicken wings, ribs, curried rice, roasted veggies, salad, and dessert for dinner. All of it is delicious. We better get hiking soon otherwise I'm going to be gaining a fair amount of weight.

Oh, and Jan was telling us that our chopper pilot is apparently amazing. She's worked in a ton of camps, and there are pilots around she won't fly with because they're risk-takers and such, but our pilots Jim and Billy are great, and she's flown with them before. So, Dad, you don't have to worry so much. We do our chopper orientation in a couple days, and then I think Monday we're going out on our first official heli-traverse. So exciting!