Today I cleaned out the kayak gear box that tends to live in the back of my Subaru until mid-October or so. I am participating in a 10 mile paddle on the Chemung River in the Elmira, NY area this weekend with a bunch of friends so my goal was to get everything organized and cleaned up a bit. Pockets of the PFD have been emptied from last year's stash of must-haves, the first aid kit has been restocked and bubbles have been restocked (yes...BUBBLES!!! YAY!). I removed a few hats that I don't wear (I have one I almost always wear and another for rougher, wetter, weather) and did some condensing of Otter boxes, dry bags and such. On of my friends is borrowing one of our kayaks so I wanted to be extra sure that all we in good, clean (read: no fish guts), working order!!!