We’re only two days away from our trip! Everyone keeps asking about precautions for the Alaskan wildlife. Yes, we’ll carry bear spray and we’ll fastidiously keep our food in bear proof containers. But our biggest concern: epic swarms of mosquitos!
We’ve got head nets (which we hope not to need very often!), we’ve got a thermacell device that should create a magical wall of safety around our campsite.
We’ll also have bug spray. But hopefully the most effective thing we’ve done is sent our clothing to Insect Shield for them to treat our clothes with permethrin in the same process they use in clothing you can buy at outdoor stores.
You can tell they really did it because they imprinted all their info on each item. Well, we certainly HOPE they did it!
And they added new tags in the garments, right next to the annoying tags I had already cut out. oh well.
Hopefully the mosquitos won’t bother trying to bother us too much. We’ll soon find out!