Travel Gear Pack light; space is very limited as we will be traveling in two vans. You may be able to do laundry on the trip. Bring soft, squishable luggage; duffle bags are required (NO hard-sided luggage). Excess baggage may have to be left at our departure point hotel. Leave room to bring back rocks for yourselves.

Required:

• Steel-toe boots; required at mines
• field / hiking boots; for our field days
• long sleeve shirts and pants: good mine wear required in mines
• hard hat: you must bring a hard hat for your use
• nice outfit for company-hosted dinners
• bright orange, green or red reflective "safety" vest: can be obained at local hardware or similar store for as little as USD4.00 (on the internet check "surveyors vest", or "safety vest") photo

Recommended:

• personal items, including prescription medications and insurance card
• wind breaker or light jacket (rain/snow possible, sunny days likely)
• sunglasses / safety glasses
• sunscreen
• towel

Optional:

• short sleeve shirts
• alarm clock
• hat / cap
• gloves
  

Other

• Alternative photo identification (recommended, for acess to mines)
• Passport, (recomended, make extra copies of first page of passport with your photo)
• Cash & credit cards: MC, Visa, American Express, accepted everywhere; cash or credit card for tourist items and meals. ATM's are common. Bring US currency, if possible; the only likely place of currency exchange will be the Reno airport (and the currencies served is limited).
• Proof of insurance
• Prescription medicine
• For underground mine tours - coveralls, hard hat, safety boots will be provided – bring cool comfortable clothes to wear under coveralls and bottle of water to take underground.
• Field trip reading material
• Field gear (handlens, field notebook, marker pens, pen, pencil, pencil magnet, hammer, sample bags)
• Personal address book
• Business cards
• Camera & film

Updated: 05/23/2009

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