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Owner | MITOC Gallery Administrator |
Creation Date | 2007-01-20 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. |