We had an incred­i­ble snow camp­ing trip this past week­end! We snow shoed into the Roar­ing Creek Val­ley Fri­day night, pitched camp on 12”+ snow and finally crawled into our warm bags at 1 a.m.!

The goal of the trip was to be com­fort­able and warm at ALL times and every­one did an out­stand­ing job of doing so. Every­one learned a lot about the art of cold weather camp­ing. Every­one wore our Mouse Boots, so we didn’t have to ever worry about cold toes or frost­bite even though the nights were
down to 20 degrees F.

On Sat­ur­day some folks played on Jacob’s snow­board and Jo and Will built a Quincy snow shel­ter (like an igloo). We had snow saws and snow shov­els. Alyssa pulled Mike’s Mt. McKin­ley expe­di­tion sled, which kept the weight off her bad shoulder.

In the after­noon we snow shoed up to the sum­mit of Lit­tle Hump Moun­tain which was even more of a win­ter won­der­land with 360-​​degree views.

After sup­per Sat­ur­day night we lay (lie lay lain!!!) (lay laid laid!!!) out on our foam pads and watched the stars for hours.

On Sun­day we broke camp and snow shoed 1.5 miles back to the bus and were back to the gym by 1:30 p.m.

All in all it was a mag­i­cal snow jour­ney. Every­one had a ball and stayed com­fort­able at all times and are eager to fur­ther develop their win­ter moun­taineer­ing skills!