10 days to go before my next winter adventure

Tonight, we had our planning meeting for the uOttawa Adirondacks winter camping, snowshoeing and mountain climbing meeting. Steph, one of the guides, walked us through our gear list and hammered home the fact that we will need two sets of clothes, our day outfit that will get wet during the day and our night set which will keep us warm, dry and toasty overnight. During these meetings he likes to put the fear into the foreign-exchange students so that they take him seriously when he says to pack warm clothing. This year he toned it down a bit. I think this will be the fifth trip that I have taken with Steph and they are always fun and interesting. We talked about peaks and will likely climb a href=”http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150395/algonquin-peak.html”Algonquin Peak/a or maybe a href=”http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150567/phelps-mountain.html”Phelps mountain/a this year on Saturday. The weather-of-the-day will determine which peak we attempt to summit. I talked to Steph about changing the trip date in 2009 to the April 3-4 weekend so that it does not conflict with the Boston Tea Party. It would be awesome if a href=”http://jasonplancaster.com”Jason /acould come on the trip in 2009. With Easter coming up rather quickly, I’ll be visiting a href=”http://www.mec.ca”MEC /aa couple of times over the next couple of days to load up on provisions.