Food Bags

Ramona and Carol came over later this afternoon to bring us our food bags so we can each figure out how to fit 15 pounds of food into our backpacks. We each have a personal snack bag and then separately labeled bags designating whether it's for breakfast, lunch or dinner and what day it will be served. That way we'll know which bag to have easily accessable on the appropriate day.


Ramona is the owner of the guide company, ABEC's Alaska Adventures, and will be one of our guides on the rafting portion of our trip. Carol will be our guide on the week-long backpack preceding the river journey. They talked about what to expect and answered our many questions about gear and safety. Carol offered to bring a rifle on the backpack trip, but we decided that we are much safer from bear incidents because of our large group size (6 of us). We will be bringing 3 big bear-sized cans of pepper spray.

We all liked Carol and Ramona's spirit and energy, and feel very comfortable that they will be our guides. Ramona's company came very highly recommended by Ginny Wood and a few other people Jenn had talked to who had previously been on a guided trip with Ramona.