Three pairs of socks. Fur-lined boots. Inner jacket. Two coats.
Let's see, missing anything? Oh, yeah.
"Layers and layers of clothes," said Leon Johnson.
Welcome to Siberia, perhaps the coldest place on Earth. At least it seemed that way to Johnson, a southern Arizona native.
For two winters, Johnson froze his way through life in this Russian outpost, infamously known as the place where Communist dissidents were shipped. His only crime was passion to serve an LDS Church mission.
"I hate the cold," he said. "To me, 50 degrees is freezing."
Sub-zero temperatures made for many frigid nights during the winter. Not that he could whine about it - Johnson quickly learned that complaining about the weather wasn't tolerated.
Falling in line with his comrades, he learned to enjoy the simple pleasures.
"If it's negative 25 [degrees], you're taking off your outer jacket," said Johnson, an outfielder for Brigham Young. "That is a warm day, and you're pretty happy."
Gotta love the rare opportunity to shed your outer jacket, which usually is one of three that Siberians wear. Getting dressed is a chore over there.
"It's a process to get ready to go outside," Johnson said.
Inversions don't seem so bad after all.
As you might assume, before he left the states, family and friends peppered Johnson with all the usual jokes about Siberia.
"What did you do wrong?"
"Bad, bad Communist."
"Serves you right."
Turns out, he loved it.
"It's a really pretty place," he said. "I was really impressed by it. I would love to go back there just as a tourist."
Don't all rush at once to call your local travel agent.
If Johnson does go back it would be probably in the summer, when temperatures can soar to triple digits. But any return visit will have to wait several years.
Johnson, who has struggled to find consistency in his first season back from missionary service, could be tied up with baseball for several years. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays have liked him enough to draft him three times.
Not bad for only a sophomore.
The D-Rays first selected Johnson after his senior year at Thatcher High, where he hit a school-record .667. But he decided to play a season at Eastern Arizona College before leaving for two years.
Tampa Bay, the organization for which his older brother plays, also drafted Johnson each of the last two years. Known for his speed, maybe one day the Siberian Slash will make it.