Day2 + report

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OwnerMITOC Gallery Administrator
Creation Date2007-01-20 13:28:53 UTC-0500
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Thirty five degree rain. It's about the most dangerous hypothermia-inducing weather I can think of

and we got it for 10 relentless hours from 3:30am to 1:30pm. On the bright side this meant a good 17

hours of sleep (we were'nt stupid enough to hike in that stuff), and a thorough cover to cover

reading of the little wilderness first aid book in our medical kit (that was the only literature we

brought). We ended up breaking camp at 2:15pm and still managed to put on 10 miles through the dark

to Trapper John Shelter. We even hiked over some two-thousand-footers with snow and ice on top, which

was our first time seeing snow since the WS leader's weekend back in early December. Many thanks to

the Dartmouth Outing Club, who (presumably) stashed a bunch of dry wood inside the shelter for us to

make another fire to dry stuff out. We again used the fire to make warm nalgene bottles, and it

actually started snowing as we went to bed. That night ended up being the last time our little MSR

whisperlite stove actually worked, and we would soon have to start building fires every night out of

necessity instead of mostly pleasure.